6. Franklin Perkins on Excavated Texts

In this interview, we learn how newly discovered texts are changing our understanding of Warring States period philosophy.

• F. Perkins, Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light (Cambridge: 2004).

• F. Perkins and C.-Y. Cheng (eds), Chinese Philosophy in Excavated Early Texts, co-edited with Chung-ying Cheng (London: 2010).

• F. Perkins, Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy (Bloomington: 2014).

• F. Perkins, “The Mozi and the Daodejing,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 41 (2014), 18–32.

• F. Perkins, “Divergences within the Lǎozǐ: A Study of Chapters 67-81,” T’oung Pao 100 (2014), 1-33.

• F. Perkins and C. Li (eds), Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems (Cambridge: 2015).

• F. Perkins, Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi (Oxford: 2021).