David Jones (philosopher)

Short description: American philosopher

David Jones

Education| University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (PhD), Adrian College (BA), University of Georgia (Graduate Certificate)
Awards| East-West Center Distinguished Alumni Award (2004-2005)
School| Eastern philosophy, Continental philosophy
Institutions| Kennesaw State University
Thesis| Ariadne's Complaint—Becoming of Being in Herakleitos, Chuang Tzu, & Nietzsche
Doctoral advisor| Graham Parkes

David Jones is a comparative philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University. He is the founding editor of Comparative & Continental Philosophy. He is known for his works on Asian philosophies.

## Contents

* 1 Career
* 2 Philosophy
* 3 Works
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Career

Beginning in 2006 until 2017, Jones was president of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, a leading international organization devoted to Comparative and Continental philosophy. Preceding this role, he was the 2003-2004 president of the thirteen-state Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Recipient of many awards, he was awarded the East-West Center’s Distinguished Alumnus Award (2004-2005) in Tokyo and was the Kennesaw State University Foundation Distinguished Professor in 2017. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana for a short period, Visiting Professor of Chinese Philosophy at the University of North Georgia, and Visiting Professor of Confucian Classics at Emory. In 2013 and 2015 he was Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at National Taiwan University.

Jones earned his doctorate from the University of Hawai‘i. His dissertation was titled “Ariadne’s Complaint: The Becoming of Being in Herakleitos, Chuang Tzu, and Nietzsche” under the direction of Graham Parkes. His other primary philosophical influences at Hawai‘i were Roger T, Ames and later the Confucian philosopher Henry Rosemont Jr. and historian Huang Chun-chieh of National Taiwan University.[1][2]

## Philosophy

He is known for his work on the self and his efforts in bringing East Asian voices into the philosophical conversation with the West. He is also known for his efforts in educational initiatives to institute Asia related curricula into the traditional Western curriculum. Some of this latter work was accomplished in the halcyon days of the Asian Studies Development program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. As a comparative philosopher, Jones can be placed at the cusp of a “second-wave” of comparative philosophers where his contributions lie in moving away from the “first wave” of comparative philosophy. This “second-wave” might be characterized as the movement to a more hermeneutical turn where dialogue between traditional Asian sources and Western philosophy is made more explicitly. Moving across cultural, linguistic, and philosophical streams, Jones’s publications fall mostly in the areas of Chinese and Greek Philosophy with other publications in Japanese, Buddhist, Environmental, and Continental philosophy. He is author of numerous book chapters, review articles, and articles and has also published some creative writing. As one of the “second-wave” progenitors, Jones’s work assumes titles such as:

“Straight as an Arrow: Reading Confucius Archetypally”; “Confucian Order at the Edge of Chaos: The Science of Complexity and Ancient Wisdom” (with John L. Culliney); “The Fractal Self and the Organization of Nature: The Daoist Sage and Chaos Theory” (with John Culliney); “Dao's Metaphor: The Way of Water, ” “Crossing Currents: The Over-flowing/Flowing-over Soul in Zarathustra and Zhuangzi”; “The Shifting Sands of Self: Buddhist and Confucian Solutions in Abē Kobo's Woman in the Dunes”; “Body-Mind-Self-World: Ecology and Buddhist Philosophy”; “The Confucian Authoritative Self: Real Authority or a Counterfeit Alternative?”; “Peace, Ecology, and Religion: Evolution and Buddhism’s Empathic Response”; “At a Crossroads—Beginnings of Zen”; “Letting Life In: Religious Concord through Chinese Sources”; “The Spirit-of-This-World Encounters the Spirit-of-Tragedy: Wang Guowei and Schopenhauer through the Hermeneutical Lenses of Kierkegaard and Heidegger” with He Jinli; “Alterior Reflections from Asian Philosophies: Levinas and the Comparative Way”; “In an Age of Global Decline: The Need for a Return to a World Classical Philosophy 濟世之道：回歸世界古典哲學” with John L. Culliney; “Heaven-Earth-Self: The Fractal Divinity of Self”; “Sustaining Our Planet and Ourselves: A New Focus on Ancient Models of Universal Cooperation” with John L. Culliney.[3][4]

## Works

He has co-authored and edited eleven books. With the biologist John L. Culliney, he co-authored The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation, which was published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2017. His edited books that make contributions to Asian philosophies and/or Continental philosophy include:

* The Philosophy of Creative Solitudes (Bloomsbury, 2019)
* The Humanist Spirit of Daoism by Chen Guying, edited with Sarah Flavel (Brill Academic, 2018)
* Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance, by Lee Ming-huei and edited by David Jones (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017)
* The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Cooperation, with John L. Culliney, University of Hawai'i Press 2017
* Buddha Nature and Animality (ed.), Jain Pub Co 2007
* Asian Texts - Asian Contexts: Encounters With Asian Philosophies and Religions, coedited with E. R. Klein, SUNY Press 2010
* Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects (ed.), Open Court Press 2008
* The Dynamics of Cultural Counterpoint in Asian Studies, coedited with Michele Marion, SUNY Press 2014
* The Gift of Logos: Essays in Continental Philosophy, coedited with Jason M. Wirth and Michael Schwartz, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010
* On the True Sense of Art: A Critical Companion to the Transfigurements of John Sallis, coedited with Jason M. Wirth and Michael Schwartz, Northwestern University Press 2016
* Returning to Zhu Xi: Emerging Patterns within the Supreme Polarity, coedited with E. R. Klein, SUNY Press 2015

## References

1. ↑ "KSU | Faculty Web - David Jones". https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/djones/index.php.
2. ↑ "Authors to discuss "The Fractal Self" at Volcano Art Center". 15 December 2017. https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2017/12/15/community/authors-to-discuss-the-fractal-self-at-volcano-art-center/.
3. ↑ Butler, Edward (1 October 2009). "David Jones, ed., "Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects."" (in en). Philosophy in Review 29 (5): 347–350. ISSN 1920-8936. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/383.
4. ↑ Luo, Shirong (1 March 2012). "Asian Texts—Asian Contexts: Encounters with Asian Philosophies and Religions. Edited by David Jones and E. R. Klein. (New York: State University of New York Press, 2010. 295 Pp. Hardback, ISBN 978-1-4384-2675-4; Paperback, ISBN 978-1-4384-2676-1).". Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39 (3): 457–461. doi:10.1163/15406253-03903011. ISSN 1540-6253. https://brill.com/view/journals/jcph/39/3/article-p457_11.xml?language=en.

## External links

* Jones' CV

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