Assistant Professor in Asian Philosophy
Dr. Dawid Rogacz and Dr. Selusi Ambrogio held a book launch around their three-volume set „Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers” hosted by Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris on 20th February 2025.
Dr. Dawid Rogacz gave the talk, “The concept of undeveloped socialism: a useful myth, a resisting reality,” within the panel Making/Unmaking Myths: Conceptual Histories from 20th Century China during the 25th History of Concepts conference, Rio de Janeiro (Dec. 5-7, 2024).
Dr. Dawid Rogacz has published a paper offering the first English-language philosophical treatment of Master Liu (Liuzi 劉子)—a treatise that gives a unique insight into the intellectual life of sixth-century China. The article argues that Liuzi integrated Confucian moral philosophy with selected Daoist ideas and responded to post-Buddhist transformations of key categories of Chinese thought in a manner that anticipates many solutions characteristic of Neo-Confucian lixue. The paper, published in the special issue of the Religions journal, is openly available under the link.
W listopadowym numerze “Życia Uniwersyteckiego” ukazał się wywiad (str. 26-27), w którym dr Dawid Rogacz mówi m. in. o swoich pracach nad trzytomową historią filozofii chińskiej oraz o znaczeniu myśli chińskiej dla kultury zachodniej. Link.
The Rector of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan has appointed Dr. Dawid Rogacz as the Deputy Dean for Research and International Collaboration at the Faculty of Philosophy, effective from 1 October 2024. Dr. Rogacz will be in charge of research evaluation, research collaboration, international exchange, and doctoral research at the AMU Faculty of Philosophy.
Dr. Dawid Rogacz and Dr. Selusi Ambrogio are delighted to officially announce that the three-volume set “Chinese Philosophy and its Thinkers. From Ancient Times to the Present Day” is scheduled for publication with Bloomsbury Academic in mid-November 2024. This collective work encompasses three thousand years of Chinese thought, totalling around 1,500 pages and bringing together a team of 75 experts from four continents.
This history covers such neglected areas as ancient Chinese economic thought, ancient women thinkers, Chinese Tantric Buddhism, medieval Confucian utilitarianism, early Sino-Muslim philosophy, Chinese analytic philosophy, the philosophy of the PRC’s ethnic minorities, Chinese bioethics, and much more. In the words of one of its reviewers, it is simply “the most comprehensive work in English on the history of Chinese philosophy.”
The project has been done for three years since its commissioning, while the proper editing of received submissions has been done in only two. It followed an original design renegotiated through an in-depth conversation with the authors, resulting in a much-needed comprehensive and up-to-date history of Chinese philosophy.
Vol. I Chinese Ancient and Early Imperial Philosophy
Vol. II Chinese Imperial Philosophy After Buddhism
Vol. III Chinese Philosophy from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
The list of chapters on the collection’s website is available here.
Dr. Dawid Rogacz participated in the World Congress of Philosophy in Rome, held between Aug. 1 and 8, 2024. He joined special panels and roundtables and launched a book presentation of the upcoming three-volume set “Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers.”
Dr. Dawid Rogacz opened the workshop on early Tang Dynasty Philosophy, Chongxuanxue, and Its Broader Philosophical Context, with a lecture, “The Advent of the Idea of the Three Teachings: The Cases of Three Late Sixth-century Scholars,” organized at the Leipzig University, 26-27 July 2024.
Dr. Dawid Rogacz has been elected as a new member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and, precisely – its (sub)-Academy of Young Scholars. I will be the only young (30+ yo) representative of the humanities, chosen out of the total number of 116 nominations.
Dr. Dawid Rogacz participated in the 55th Annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy in San Francisco (November 9-11, 2023). He gave a talk entitled “What Divides into What, and Why: On Metaphysical Foundations of Dengism,” which discussed the second, post-1978 phase of the One Divides into Two Controversy. The conference program and abstracts are available here.