This project investigates how modern Chinese Islamic thinkers accommodated the novel category of "religion" and renegotiated the position of Islam in twentieth-century and contemporary China by studying the complex relations ...read more
The Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program, sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, is intended to subsidize Taiwanese postdoctoral researchers to conduct research at an accredited educational institute abroad. The goal ...read more
What does it mean that a group of agent is jointly responsible for a certain state of affairs, decision, or action? What is the logic of collective responsibility?
This is a study on the concept of 'good doctor' in the earliest Chinese medical treatises, and an assessment of the position of the art of medicine in traditional Chinese ...read more
Although in origin two different trends within Buddhism, Wei-xin and Jing-tu gradually influenced each other and merged into a new concept in Chinese Buddhism. This researchproject is an investigationinto this ...read more
This project is an investigation into the development of Chinese Buddhism during the Republican Era (1911-1949), an era in which European modernization entered the Chinese philosophical world.read more
The project has two main aims. The first is to lay the conceptual groundwork for a formal account that allows for the explication and evaluation of actual reasoning processes ...read more
Logical methods for modeling human reasoning have been developed to the stage where manyformal models are available. However, research focusing on applying them to real domains isscarce. Often, it is ...read more
The aim of this research project is to find an answer to the question “What is culture?” The problem at issue is ontological. The method to resolve this problem is ...read more
The latest developments in techno-sciences often find new forms of expression in art practices, situated at the border of art and science, combining insights from biological sciences, notably biotechnology and ...read more