OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asian Philosophy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Emptiness, negation, and skepticism in Nāgārjuna and Sengzhao	9
Is metaethical naturalism sufficient? A Confucian response to problems of meaning	5
Thought-suppression in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra: against Ian Whicher’s interpretation of Patañjali’s yoga	4
Reading Nishida Kitarō as a New Confucian: With a Focus on His Early Moral Philosophy	4
Barbarians and identity in early China: Constructing the Huaxia through the other	2
Unity and multiplicity of Ibn ‘Arabī’s philosophy in Indonesian Sufism	2
The Confucian concepts of tianxia天下, yi-xia 夷夏and Chinese nationalism	2
A Mou Zongsan’s criticism of Xunzi: ‘Morality is external’	2
“Against a strong-sense Buddhist nominalism—clues from the Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra and the Mahāyānasaṃgraha ”	2
Benevolence ( ren ) and family piety ( xiao ): Analysis based on the Confucian doctrine of ren wei tian sheng	2
Buddhist critiques of divine creation in the Yogācārabhūmi and the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya	1
Existence as a first-order predicate: Themes from Mirdamad	1
Wang Yangming, Descartes, and the Sino-European juncture of Enlightenment	1
A posthumanist reading of the “happy” fish in The Zhuangzi	1
The origin of human morality: An evolutionary perspective on Mencius’s notion of sympathy	1
Zhuangzi as externalist: Reconciling two interpretations of the Happy Fish debate	1
Philosophical incantations ( Itihāsa and Epode ). The power of narrative reason in the Mahābhārata	1
Harmonizing virtuosities in the Zhuangzi	1
Antimessianism and the temporal ontology of Ibn ‘Arabī	1
Differences and similarities between the later-Wittgenstein’s philosophy of religion and the Islamic mystical tradition	1
A metaphysical interpretation of ‘Heaven’ and the ‘Mandate of Heaven’ as practice: Takada Shinji’s argument about the ‘Mandate of Heaven’	1
Apocalyptic claims and the everyday: Tosaka Jun, history, and journalism	1
On self-deception: from the perspective of Zhu Xi’s moral psychology	1
Yangsheng 養生 as ‘making a living’ in the Zhuangzi	1
Intention, ethics, and convention in Daoism: Guo Xiang on ziran (self-so) and wuwei (non-action)	1

Nishida Kitarō and Muhammad ‘Abduh on God and reason: Towards a theology of place	1
Google, ChatGPT, questions of omniscience and wisdom	0
From Croce’s intuition to Zhu Guangqian’s Zhijue 直觉: A cross-cultural interpretation	0
Saved by a giant gourd: Political reality and philosophical deactivation of the counsellor in the Zhuangzi	0
Re-visiting the role of craft in Zhuangzi’s philosophy	0
Sage and great person in Zhang Zai’s thought	0
Beauty, nobility, and desire: Ideals of gentlemanliness and the male body in Confucius and Plato	0
The internal and external dimensions of Liu Zongzhou’s self-cultivation theory	0
Names exist when carving begins ( shi zhi you ming 始制有名): A theory of names in Daodejing (道德經)	0
Ren 仁 (Humaneness) and Li 禮 (Ritual) in a painting metaphor from the perspective of contextual individuality	0
Am I the only mind that exists?	0
The idea of shan 善 (goodness): A neglected philosophical relation between Guodian’s ‘Wu xing’ and Xunzi	0
Qian Mu reads Zhuangzi: Regarding ‘there has not yet begun to be a “there has not yet begun to be nothing”’	0
玄德 mysterious virtue: Wu wei and the non-paradoxical politics of the Dao	0
Historical materialism in medieval China: The cases of Liu Zongyuan (773-819) and Li Gou (1009-1059)	0
Beyond anthropocentrism: A Watsujian ecological ethic	0
Confucian relational personhood and oppressed agents	0
The unity of identity and difference as the absoluteness of all relativity: Hui Shi and the longing for a different logic	0
How to attain oneness through internal affectivity ( neigan )? Divergent responses in the philosophy of the Cheng brothers	0
The multifaceted perspective: Confucius’ political philosophy as manifested in his perception and engagement with Ji Shi 季氏 (the Ji family)	0
Yogācāra Buddhism and the illusion of phenomenal consciousness	0
The concept of svasaṃvedana in Dignāga and Candrakīrti	0
Non-humans in theZhuangzi: Animalism and anti-anthropocentrism	0
Path-bound normativity and a Confucian case of historical holism	0
Han Fei and conceptions of universal and Chinese human rights	0
Eastern and Western creativity of tradition	0
Perceptual transformation in Ibn ‘Arabī’s philosophy: The night journey ( isrā’ ) and ascension ( mi‘rāj ) of Prophet Muḥammad	0
Chinese Islam’s understanding of Zhongxiao 忠孝: Jin Tian-zhu’s 金天柱 Qing Zhen Shi Yi 清眞釋疑	0
Transcending Ibn Rushd’s methods of reasoning	0
Dharmakīrti’s theory of fault with particular reference to Vādanyāya	0
Transforming knowledge to wisdom: Feng Qi and the new Neo-Marxist humanism	0
Wu 無 under the possible worlds theory	0
Unpacking zhi (知) in the Laozi : A semantic and epistemological analysis with focus on Western sinological perspectives	0
Buddhism and Spinoza on the three kinds of knowledge	0
Uncertainty in the philosophy of Ibn ‘arabī and Nūr al-Dīn al-Jāmī	0
Focusing on an object or reflexive self-awareness? Mindfulness, phenomenology and the Pāli sutta s	0
Guo Xiang’s account of ideal personhood: Self-fulfillment without the admiration of sages	0
Reasserting the primacy of xing (human nature) and self-cultivation (xiushen): Li Cai’s (1529-1607) defense of Confucianism against the interpenetration of the three teachings	0
Śaṅkara’s philosophy of dreaming: Constructing an unreal world	0
Culture as Human Nature in Vital Dispositions come via Mandate ( Xing Zi Ming Chu , 性自命出)	0
Confucian philosophy of family: interpretation or justification?	0
Some suggestions on playing games through reading the15th Assembly of the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra	0
A neglected interpretation of Avicenna’s theory of God’s knowledge of particulars	0
Two models of Confucian democracy: A contrastive analysis of Tang Junyi’s and Mou Zongsan’s political philosophy	0
A contextual review of the Nei 內 (internality) / Wai 外 (externality) debate in the Mencius	0
The inconsistencies in Wang Chong’s Lunheng eliminated in the light of analogical reasoning	0
Zhuangzi’s ethical nihilism	0
On being “without-desire” in Lao-Zhuang Daoism	0
Confucian propriety without inequality: A Daoist (and feminist) re-construction	0
Forgetting oneself or personal identity in relation to time and otherness in theZhuangzi	0

The evolution of Li Dazhao’s Chinese nationalism	0
Friendship and forgetfulness in Derrida and the Zhuangzi	0
The evolution of Xuantong in early Daoist philosophy	0
Sensibility and moral values in Mengzi’s metaethics	0
A new critique of Mou Zongsan’s Kantian interpretation of Mengzi’s ethics	0
‘Angry fish’ and ‘dying fish’ matter in the Zhuangzi Too: Political analogies in the ‘happy fish’ dialogue	0
Confucian exclusivism: A challenge to Confucian exemplarist morality	0
Things, order, and the resurgence of contingency: Xiong Bolong 熊伯龍 (1617–1670) and hisWuhe ji無何集	0
A new dialogue on Yijing -the book of changes in a world of changes, instability, disequilibrium and turbulence	0
A painting you can eat: A dialogue between Dōgen and postmodern thinkers on nature and ecology	0
On Garfield and Priest’s interpretation of the use of the catuskoti in Mūlamadhyamakakārikā	0
‘Following along with things’ in different ways Zhuangzi’s thoughts on how to manage external affairs	0
Confucian freedom: assessing the debate	0
Did Mīrdāmād believe in the primacy of quiddity?	0
On the origin of goodness in the Xunzi	0
Wrongdoing without a wrongdoer: ‘Empty ethics’ in Buddhism	0
An ancient Chinese interpretation of distributed leadership	0
Is Mohism reallyli-promotionalism?	0
‘Betweenness’ and ‘twofoldness’: A cross-cultural interpretation of the aesthetic appreciation of paintings	0
On the philosophical function of the ‘sage’ in theLaozi	0
Why does the Buddha support the ‘all-existing’? Investigating scriptural proofs for the Sarvāstivāda school’s ‘all-existing’ doctrine through the perspectives in the Saṃyukta Āgama	0
Cognition: ‘This is a word’. A study of Yaśovijaya-sūri’s Jaina-tarka-bhāṣā	0
Is He 和 an accurate term to express harmony: Tong 同 as another viable option	0
The skillful living in theZhuangzi, Buddhism, and Stoicism	0
Reiteration and automaton: A posthumanist reading of repetition in Zhuangzi and Jacques Lacan	0
The scope of the pramāṇas in classical and postclassical Sāṃkhya	0
Is there a universal priority in cases of value conflicts? —Reverse engineeringQuan權	0
The art of setting up authority: Han Fei’s doctrine of Shi	0
The silent speaker: A Nietzschean reading of Rūmī’s aesthetics of lyric poetry	0
Obituary: Dr Brian Carr (1946–2022)	0
Assertive or indicative? A philosophical study on translating the Confucian concept you yu yi 游於藝	0
Time transcending tense: An examination of heng 恒 in pre-Qin Daoist philosophy	0
Avicenna on the problem of God’s knowledge of multiple things	0
Theorizing forgiveness from Nishida Kitarō’s account of love	0
Flowers in a mirror: Critique of ‘Confucianization of law’	0
Prolegomena to the study of Youxi Sanmei 遊戲三昧 Buddhist sacred play between agonism and mimicry	0
Miki Kiyoshi’s Philosophy of History and the historical role of myth	0
Is human nature evil?—A re-examination of Xunzi’s argumentation and its implication for moral psychology	0
A logical analysis of the debate on Hao River	0
Mindfulness and attention: Towards a phenomenology of mindfulness as the feeling of being tuned in	0