Section of Foreign Philosophy

- Shuchen Xiang
- Assistant Professor
- Areas of Research:Comparative Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race
- Bio
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I was born in Xi'an China and grew up in the United Kingdom since the age of seven.
EDUCATION
2016- 2019 PhD Philosophy (summa cum laude)
The Humboldt University, Berlin and King’s College London
2015-2016 PhD Philosophy
The University of York
(Moved to Humboldt and KCL with supervisor in 2016)
2014-2015 MA Philosophy (Distinction)
The University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2012-2014 PhD Dual Degree, Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
(Discontinued, MA in Comparative Literature conferred)
2011-2012 MA English Literature (Merit)
The University of Warwick
2007-2010 BA (Hons) Architecture (1st Class)
The University of Cambridge
Promoted to MA (2014)
Peer Reviewed Articles:“Organic Harmony and Ernst Cassirer’s Pluralism” Idealistic Studies. 49 (3)
“Why the Confucians Had No Concept of Race (Part I): The Anti-Essentialist Cultural Understanding of Self” Philosophy Compass. 2019
“Why the Confucians Had No Concept of Race (Part II): Cultural Difference, Environment and Achievement” Philosophy Compass. 2019
"The Symbolic Construction of Reality: The Xici and Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms." Journal of Chinese Humanities. Volume 4, Issue 2, 2019.
“Freedom and Culture: The Cassirerian and Confucian Account of Symbolic Formation.” Idealistic Studies. Volume 47 (3), 2018.
“Orientalism and Enlightenment Positivism: A Critique of Anglophone Sinology, Comparative Literature and Philosophy.” The Pluralist. Volume 13, Issue 2, 2018
“The Ghostly Other: Understanding Racism from Confucian and Enlightenment Models of Subjectivity.” Asian Philosophy. Volume 25, Issue 4, 2015
“The Irretrievability of the Past: Nostalgia in Chinese literature from Tang-Song Poetry to Ming Qing san-wen.” International Communication of Chinese Culture. Volume 2, Issue 3, 2015