Moral Politics in the Mencius

Yang Xiao from Kenyon College will speak on moral politics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.

Prof. Xiao was born in Southern China. He received his B.A. in theoretical physics from Wuhan University, and his M.A. in philosophy of language from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). From 1987 to 1993 he was a junior research fellow in the Institute of Philosophy at CASS. In 1989 he was a visiting student at Wolfson College at Oxford University, where he studied with Sir Peter Strawson. He worked with Prof. Richard Bernstein at the New School, and in the late 1990s, he studied with Prof. Bernard Williams. Prof. Xiao has taught at Kenyon College since 2003. He has been the Book Review Editor of Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy since 2005.