BEHUNIAK, Jim

Visiting Professor

University of Hawai`i, Manoa (Ph.D.)
jbehunia@colby.edu

Brief Biography

Jim Behuniak is Professor of Philosophy at Colby College.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hawai`i in 2002.  His work focuses in the areas of classical Chinese philosophy and American philosophy.  He is the author of John Dewey and Daoist Thought: Experiments in Intra-Cultural Philosophy, Vol. 1, John Dewey and Confucian Thought: Experiments in Intra-Cultural Philosophy, Vol. 2 (both SUNY Press, 2019), and Mencius on Becoming Human (SUNY Press, 2005).  He is editor of Appreciating the Chinese Difference: Engaging Roger T. Ames on Methods, Issues, and Roles (SUNY Press, 2018).  He has authored numerous articles in Chinese and comparative philosophy for edited volumes and for journals such as Philosophy East and West, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, and Asian Philosophy.

Research Interests

  1. Classical Chinese philosophy
  2. American philosophy

Selected Publications

Books Published:

  1.  (2019) John Dewey and Daoist Thought: Experiments in Intra-Cultural Philosophy, Volume One, by Jim Behuniak. State University of New York Press.
  2.  (2019) John Dewey and Confucian Thought: Experiments in Intra-Cultural Philosophy, Volume Two, by Jim Behuniak. State University of New York Press.
  3. (2018) Appreciating the Chinese Difference: Engaging Roger T. Ames on Methods, Issues, and Roles, ed. by Jim Behuniak. State University of New York Press. (Chinese Translation, Zhejiang University Press, forthcoming).
  4. (2005) Mencius on Becoming Human, by James Behuniak, Jr. State University of New York Press.
  5. (2004) 孟子心性之學 (Studies of Mencius on Feeling and Nature), ed. with Roger T. Ames, Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing. (In Chinese).

 

Articles/Chapters Published:

  1. (2023)  “Mencius, Dewey, and ‘Developmental’ Human Nature,” in Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius,” ed. Kim-Chong Chong.  Springer.
  2. (2023) “Oneness (yi 一) in the Daodejing,” forthcoming in Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Daodejing, ed. Ai Yuan.  Springer.
  3. (2023) “Naturalizing Mencius (孟子自然化),” forthcoming in Zhongguo Ruxue (Zhongguo Shihui Kexue Chubanshe 中國社會科學出版社), in Chinese.  Revised article from 2011.
  4. (2023) “Mencius,” entry in Oxford Handbook of Confucianism, ed. Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, forthcoming (Invited).
  5. (2021) “Towards a Social Philosophy: Dewey’s Recently Recovered China Lectures,” Sources of Governance: Confucian Relations and Dewey’s Pragmatism, ed. Ames, et. al. (University of Hawaii Press).
  6. (2021) “Sameness, Difference, and the Post-Comparative Turn,” One Corner of the Square: Essays on the Philosophy of Roger T. Ames, ed. Sullivan, et. al. (University of Hawaii Press).