作者简介
Professor Ames was the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies (University of Hawaii at Manoa) from 1991 until Spring 2000 and has been the Editor of Philosophy East and West since 1987. In 1993 he was instrumental in creating China Review International, Hawaii’s innovative new journal of reviews of scholarly literature in Chinese studies, and served as its Executive Editor from 1991 to 2000. He is co-director of the East-West Center’s Asian Studies Development Program, for which he has been successful in obtaining multiple National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright grants. His teaching and research interests focus on comparative philosophy, the philosophy of culture, environmental philosophy, classical Confucianism, and Daoism.Ames has authored several interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture: Thinking Through Confucius (1987), Anticipating China (1995), Thinking from the Han (1998), and Democracy of the Dead (1999) (all with D.L. Hall), Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary (2011), and most recently “Human Becomings: Theorizing ‘Persons’ for Confucian Role Ethics” (forthcoming). His publications also include translations of Chinese classics: Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare (1993); Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare (1996) (with D.C. Lau); the Confucian Analects (1998) and the Classic of Family Reverence: The Xiaojing (2009) (both with H. Rosemont), Focusing the Familiar: The Zhongyong (2001), and The Daodejing (with D.L. Hall) (2003). Almost all of his publications are now available in Chinese translation, including his philosophical translations of Chinese canonical texts. He has most recently been engaged in compiling the new Sourcebook of Classical Confucian Philosophy, and in writing articles promoting a conversation between American pragmatism and Confucianism.
