Mr Waldemar Brys
Casual Academic
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages
I work on epistemology and normative ethics in classical Chinese philosophy.
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UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship (2019 - 2023)
Travel Grant of the Freie Universität Berlin (2019)
Chinese Government Scholarship (Cooperative Program with Provinces & Autonomous Regions) (2016 - 2018)
UNSW HDR Research Output Award 2023
UNSW HDR Research Output Award 2022
UNSW HDR Research Output Award 2021
Publications
Forthcoming / in-print:
- "Knowing-to in Wang Yangming." In Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy, edited by Justin Tiwald. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- "Mengzi." In The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, edited by Kurt Sylvan, Matthias Steup, Jonathan Dancy & Ernest Sosa, 3rd ed. Wiley-Blackwell.
2023
- "Extending Kindness: A Confucian Account." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 104 (3): 511-528. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12429
- "Virtuous Actions in the Mengzi." British Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (1): 2-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2101431
- "Target-Centred Virtue Ethics: Aristotelian or Confucian?" Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2023.2220125 (Co-authored with Philippe Brunozzi)
- "Epistemology in the Mencius." In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius, edited by Yang Xiao and Kim-chong Chong, 491-514. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27620-0_25
- "Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi." British Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (1): 137-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2121263
2022
- “The Difference Between Ren and Yi: Mengzi’s Anti-Guodianism at 6A4-5.” Sophia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-022-00926-z
- “The Epistemology of Mengzian Extension.” In Knowers and Knowledge in East-West Philosophy, edited by Karyn L. Lai, 43-62. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79349-4_3
Conference Presentations
2023
- 14.04. "Mengzian Knowledge Practicalism." Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, UK.
2022
- 18.01. "Benevolent Agency in the Mengzi and the Problem of 2A5." 2022 APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- 23.04. "Translating Epistemic Terms in Zhu Xi." Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK.
- 29.06. "The Practicality of Mengzian Intellectual Virtue." 22. International Conference of the ISCP, East China Normal University, China.
2021
- 10.12. "Virtuous Actions in the Mengzi." International Society of East Asian Philosophy Conference, Meiji University, Japan.
2020
- 21.10. "Dealing with Ancient Texts: Historical vs Rational Reconstruction", HAL Postgraduate Conference, UNSW, Australia.
2019
- 25.03. “Is Confucianism Globally Viable? Mengzi and Gaozi on Impartiality and Differentiated Care”, International Conference on Justice and Progress, Fudan University, China.
2018
- 01.06. “Zhuangzi is not a Skeptic”, 12. International Conference on Daoist Studies, Beijing Normal University, China.
2017
- 12.11. “Mengzi and Innate Moral Dispositions”, 3. International Symposium of the Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, China.
2016
- 18.03. “Lebensbejahung als Gegenideal”, 3. Forum Junger Nietzscheforschung, Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Weimar.
2015
- 27.05. “The Eternal Recurrence and Life Affirmation”, King's College London, Graduate Philosophy Workshop, UK.
- 01.07. “Global Ethics: In Search of Alternatives”, Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference 2015, Croatia.
- 20.07. “Virtue Ethics as a Global Ethics”, 52. Ethics Conference of the Societas Ethica, University of Linköping, Sweden.
- 18.09. “Eternal Recurrence as a Nietzschean Ideal”, 21. International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, University of Hull, UK.