Stephen C. Angle

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Professor of Philosophy

Professor Angle received his B.A. from Yale in East Asian Studies and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. At Wesleyan, he is a member of the Philosophy Department and a participant in the East Asian Studies Program.

Courses for the current academic year ('11-'12):

• Fall 2011
  • Phil 205: Classical Chinese Philosophy
  • Phil 221: Philosophy as a Way of Life (First-Year Initiative Seminar)
• Spring 2009
• • Phil 263: Modern Chinese Philsophy
  • Phil 341: Confucianism and Virtue Ethics

Other courses taught in the past:

• East 201: East Asian Studies Sophomore Colloquium
• Phil 233: Philosophy of Language
• Phil 259: Neo-Confucian Chinese Philosophy
• Phil 270: Human Rights Across Cultures
• Phil 280: Mencius
• Phil 282: Reading Classical Chinese Philosophy
  • Syllabus
  • List of characters learned in the course
• Phil 325: Human Rights and Chinese Philosophy
• Phil 326: Challenging Confucianism
• Phil 342: Sagehood
• Phil 365: Cognitive and Ethical Pluralism
  • Selected Bibliography

Research Interests

Professor Angle specializes in Chinese philosophy, particularly in the relations between modern (nineteenth- and twentieth- century) Chinese thought and the Confucian tradition. He also has research interests in contemporary Western moral psychology, meta-ethics, and philosophy of language.

More-or-less current CV

Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)

	The Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000, Co-editor and co-translator, with Marina Svensson (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001). SEE ALSO: Chinese Human Rights Web, which includes reviews of the Reader.
	Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)

Local Projects and Links to Other Sites

• NEH Summer Seminar for 2008: Traditions Into Dialogue: Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics (Co-Directed with Michael Slote)
• International Society for Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP)
• Chinese Human Rights Web
• Wesleyan Confucian Etext Project
• Selected China- and Chinese Philosophy-Related Links

Personal Information

• Our family's blog from our year in China is here.
• Some family pictures are available here.
• My brother Colin Angle's company, iRobot, Inc..
• My father Chuck Angle's propeller business, Flex-O-Fold Propellers.
• My step-brother Martin King's website on quarter-wavelength loudspeaker design.

Contact Information

• Email: sangle@wesleyan.edu
• Office Phone: (860) 685-3654
• Fax: (860) 685-3861
• Snail Mail: Wesleyan University Department of Philosophy, 350 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459