Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University (Beijing), 2015
【Background】
Tsinghua University (Beijing) is not only one of the most important cradles of “modern Chinese philosophy,” but also the birthplace and the academic center of Western philosophy study in China. During the first half of the 20th century, Western philosophy research in Tsinghua played a pivotal role in constructing humanities and social sciences of Tsinghua University and even of whole China. For example, the master of Chinese traditional learning, WANG Guowei (1877-1927), obtained outstanding academic achievements in the field of Redology (the studies of CAO Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber) and the Chinese ancient poetics or aesthetics based on his studies of Schopenhauer's philosophy; the great thinker, LIANG Qichao (1873-1929), was the first scholar who introduced European continental philosophy to China and advanced the research of it in Tsinghua, which not only established his status as a uniquely pioneering and global-minded thinker in political and social philosophy, but also partly helped lay foundation for modern Chinese philosophy. Through the wide-ranging and deep-delving studies of Western philosophy, the following philosophers and scholars in Tsinghua: JIN Yuelin (1895-1984), FENG Youlan (1895-1990), HE Lin (1902-1992), ZHANG Shenfu (1893-1986), ZHANG Dainian (1909-2004) and so on, formed “the Tsinghua School of Philosophy”, which has made great contribution to modern Chinese philosophy. This School, as one of the most crucial parts of “the Tsinghua School”, which led the famous academic trend in the field of humanities from the 1920s to the 1950s in modern China, has exercised great influence on other disciplines. These founders of this School and their successors, such as SHEN Youding (1909-1989), WANG Jiuxing (1916-2013), HE Zhaowu (1921-), to some extent, are not only those whose philosophizing represents one of the most significant trends in modern Chinese philosophy, but also those whose philosophical academic work represents the most fruitful endeavor of Western philosophy research in China. The academic and philosophical approaches of this School encourage scholars to creatively combine the methods/conceptual systems/discourse modes of Western philosophy with the resource/problems of Chinese ancient thoughts in order to establish a new tradition of historical-systematical study of Chinese philosophy, to actualize the potential of Chinese ancient philosophy, and to construct an original philosophy——modern Chinese philosophy. The ultimate aim of the Tsinghua School is “会通中西、贯通古今 (to integrate or amalgamate Chinese and Western thoughts through systematic interinterpretations or constructive synthesizations, and to interpret or grasp thoughts from the ancient to the present through thorough understandings or systematic reconstructions) ”. Since the Tsinghua School of Philosophy has played a fundamental role in the past development of humanities and social sciences of Tsinghua, the current and future researches on Western philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University (DPTU) are expected also to follow its early tradition established by these predecessors, and to prompt the formation of a new academic paradigm. In view of the fact that the publication of a high-standard journal of Western philosophy could be in service of meeting this expectation, DPTU launches a biannual journal Tsinghua Studies in Western Philosophy (TSWP) in 2015.
【Aims】
The central purposes of Tsinghua Studies in Western Philosophy (TSWP) are:
1.to facilitate the specialization and internationalization of Western philosophy research in China,2、to promote long-term and fruitful dialogues between Chinese scholars and their international colleagues,
2.to carry out the early tradition of the Tsinghua School of Philosophy,
3.to advocate a structural, systematical and integrative interinterpretation between Chinese and Western philosophy, and a historical, thorough and consistent understanding of the philosophy from the ancient to the present,
4.and to encourage the construction of a more universal philosophy on the basis of mutual inspiration and interinterpretations between the two traditions.
As a journal mainly specializing in Western philosophy, TSWP wishes to be a first-class journal, which presents high-quality researches of Western philosophy and remarkable dialogues between China and the Western.
【Forms & Contents】
TSWP is a biannual journal with a summer issue and a winter issue that comes out every June and December. It publishes high-quality academic articles, notes and discussions, current scholarship reviews and book reviews, and calls for Chinese or English papers from scholars both inside and outside China. Lengths of submissions are advised to be between 10, 000 and 15, 000 words for academic articles and not to exceed 10, 000 for other ones (no set maximum in some exceptional circumstances permitted by editors). The topics are expected to be about either historical and/or systematical studies in almost all main branches of Western philosophy (ranging from ancient to contemporary philosophy), or comparative studies of or dialogues between Chinese and Western philosophy. TSWP will strictly follow the international standards of academic norms, format style, paper review (peer review), edition, and publication.
【Institution】
Academic Advisory Board
Chairperson：
YE Xiushan Chinese Academy of Social Sciences/ Tsinghua University, China
XIE Weihe Tsinghua University, China
WAN Junren Tsinghua University, China
Members：
Jacques Bidet University of Paris X, France
Wolfgang Carl University of Goettingen, Germany
John M. Cooper Princeton University, USA
DENG Xiaomang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Wolfgang Freitag University of Freiburg, Germany
Markus Gabriel University of Bonn, Germany
Simon Glendinning London School of Economics, UK
JIN Xiping Peking University, China
Jean-Francois Kervegan University of Paris I, France
Anton F. Koch Heidelberg University, Germany
Sandra Lapointe MacMaster University, Canada
LIANG Zhixue Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
LI Qiuling Renmin University of China, China
NI Liangkang Sun Yat-sen University, China
Emanuel Renault University of Paris X, France
Greg Restall University of Melbourne, Australia
Tom Rockmore Duquesne University, USA
Birgit Sandkaulen University of Bochum, Germany
Thomas M. Scanlon Harvard University, USA
Thomas Schmidt Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Malcolm Schofield University of Cambridge, UK
Thomas Sheehan Stanford University, USA
Robert Stern University of Sheffield, UK
Martin Stokhof University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
SUN Zhouxing Tongji University, China
TONG Shijun East China Normal University, China
WANG Lu Tsinghua University, China
WANG Shuren Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
YAO Dazhi Jilin University, China
YAO Jiehou Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
YU Jiyuan State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
ZHAO Dunhua Peking University, China
ZHANG Xianglong Peking University/ Shandong University, China
ZHANG Zhiwei Renmin University of China, China
ZHANG Rulun Fudan University, China
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief：HUANG Yusheng Tsinghua University, China
Associate Editor-in-Chief：SONG Jijie Tsinghua University, China
Members：
CHEN Dezhong Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
CHEN Jiaming Xiamen University, China
CHEN Yajun Nanjing University, China
CUI Weihang Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
DENG Anqing Fudan University, China
FANG Xianghong Sun Yat-sen University, China
FU Youde Shandong University, China
FU Yongjun Shandong University, China
GUO Dawei Party School of the Central Committee of C.P.C, China
HAN Lixin Tsinghua University, China
HAN Shuifa Peking University, China
HANG Donghui Renmin University of China, China
JIANG Yi Beijing Normal University, China
LI Daqiang Jilin University, China
LI He Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
LI Meng Peking University, China
LI Wentang Party School of the Central Committee of C.P.C, China
LIU Fenrong Tsinghua University, China
LIU Zhe Peking University, China
MA Yinmao Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
MO Weimin Fudan University, China
NIE Minli Renmin University of China, China
PENG Gang Tsinghua University, China
SHANG Jie Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
SHANG Xinjian Peking University, China
SUN Xiangchen Fudan University, China
TIAN Wei Tsinghua University, China
WANG Heng Nanjing University, China
WANG Qi Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
WANG Xiaochao Tsinghua University, China
WU Guosheng Peking University, China
WU Tianyue Peking University, China
XIA Ying Tsinghua University, China
XIE Wenyu Shandong University, China
XU Xiangdong Zhejiang University, China
YU Qizhi South China Normal University, China
YU ZhenhuaEast China Normal University, China
ZHANG Shen Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
ZHANG TingguoHuazhong University of Science and Technology, China
ZHANG Xuefu Zhejiang University, China
ZHAO GuangmingChinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
ZHAO Jianying Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
ZHOU Lian Renmin University of China, China
ZHOU Xiaoliang Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
【Publication & Sponsor】
TSWP is financially supported by Tsinghua University and published by Chinese Social Science Press (Beijing).
【Contact Information】
E-mail：tsinghuawp@sina.com
TSWP Editorial Office
SONG Jijie Associate Editor-in-Chief
Tsinghua Studies in Western Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Tsinghua University
Room 235, Xinzhai Building, Qinghuayuan Nr.1
Haidian District, Beijing, P.R. China, 100084
Email：tsinghuawp@sina.com
