Yu Kam Por is Acting Director of the General Education Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was an associate professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration of the City University of Hong Kong before he moved to PolyU in 1999. He has been a visiting research fellow in Bonn University, the University of Edinburgh, and Harvard University. He is an Advisory Editorial Board member of International Journal of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy of Medicine, and an Advisory International Council member of the Centre for Bioethics & Emerging Technologies, St. Mary’s University College, London. He has published nine books and a few dozens of journal papers or book chapters. His recent publications include a co-edited book Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously and a series of papers on the Confucian views on harmony, multiple values, peace, and war.

 

Recent publications (from 2009):

Books

1.   Yu Kam Por, Julia Tao and P. J. Ivanhoe (eds.), Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2010, vii + 225 pp. 

 

2.    Yu Kam Por, Luoji de Yishu (The Art of Logic, tr. from English into Chinese by Zhang Jianquan), Chongqing: Chongqing daxue chubanshe (Chongqing University Press), 2011, iii + 200 pp.

 

 

3.    Francis Mok, Yu Kam Por, Chan Ho Mun (eds.), 52 Keywords in Social Ethics (in Chinese), Hong Kong: Infolink Publishing Ltd., forthcoming in 2011.

 

Journal papers

 

4.      Yu Kam Por, “Confucian Views on War as seen in the Spring and Autumn Annals”, in Dao: A Journal in Comparative Philosophy, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, Volume 9, Number 1 (March 2010), 97-111.

 

5.   Yu Kam Por, “The Inadequacy of the Rights Perspective: The Problem of Abortion as an Example” (in Chinese), International Journal of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy of Medicine, New York: Global Publications, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2009, pp. 29-38.

 

Encyclopedia and Handbook chapters

 

6.    Yu Kam Por and Julia Tao, “Confucianism”, in Ruth Chadwick(ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, London: Academic Press, 4 Vol. set, Second Edition, Chapter 193, forthcoming in 2011.

 

7.    Yu Kam Por, “He Ping: A Confucian Perspective”, in Wolfgang Dietrich, Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Gustavo Esteva, Daniela Ingruber, and Norbert Koppensteiner (eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Peace Studies, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 244-259.

 

Book Chapters

8.        Yu Kam Por, “The Confucian Conception of Harmony”, in Julia Tao, Anthony Cheung, Martin Painter and Chenyang Li (eds.), Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond, London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 15-36.

 

9.   Yu Kam Por, “The Handling of Multiple Values in Confucian Ethics”, in Kam-por Yu, Julia Tao and P. J. Ivanhoe (eds.), Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2010, pp. 27-51. 

 

10.    Yu Kam Por, Julia Tao and P. J. Ivanhoe, “Why Take Confucian Ethics Seriously?”, in Kam-por Yu, Julia Tao and P. J. Ivanhoe (eds.), Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2010, pp. 1-11. 

Translated works

11.  “Die Natur mit Verantwortung und Demut mäßigen: Humangenetik aus konfuzianischer Sicht”, Polylog: Forum für interkulturelle Philosophie, Vol. 6, translated by Tina Suchanek. (ISSN 1616-2943) [http://them.polylog.org/6/fyk-de.htm]

12.  “Aiqing xi shenmo?”, in Taoli Baohua and Yin Jingde (eds.), Shenghuo de yiyi, translated by Liu Zhao, Beijing: Zhongguo renmin daxue chubanshe, 2009, pp. 13-26.

13.   “Daode nengfou tuoli zongjiao er cunzai?”, in Taoli Baohua and Yin Jingde (eds.), Shenghuo de yiyi, translated by Liu Zhao, Beijing: Zhongguo renmin daxue chubanshe, 2009, pp. 140-149.

Conference presentations

14.   “The Confucian Views on Revenge”, paper presented in the First Global Conference on Revenge, organized by Interdisciplinary Net, Mansfield College, Oxford, 15-17 July 2010.

15.     “Confucian Vision of Peace”, plenary speech given in the International Symposium “Visions of Peace: The West and Asia”, sponsored by The Japan Foundation and the Department of History and Art History, University of Otago, held in the Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, 10-12 December 2009.

16.   “Su Shi on the Psychological Basis of Morality”, paper presented in the Mini-Conference on Neo-Confucian Moral Psychology, American Philosophical Association 2009 Pacific Division Meeting, Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, Canada, 8-12 April, 2009. 

Short Articles

The following articles in Francis Mok, Yu Kam Por, Chan Ho Mun (eds.), 52 Terms in Social Ethics (in Chinese), Hong Kong: Infolink Publishing Ltd., 2011:

 

17.     “Sexual Harassment”

18.     “Abortion”

 

19.     “Cloning”

 

20.     “Filial Piety”

 

21.     “Qing-yi 情義”

 

22.     “Ben-fen 本分”

 

23.     “Love”

Mottos

“Be able to see the demerits of the things you like, and the merits of the things you don’t like.” 好而能知其惡, 惡而能知其美 (The Great Learning)

“Production without possession. Action without self-assertion. Development without domination.” 生而不有, 為而不恃, 長而不宰 (Laozi)

“Don’t worry not being recognized. Worry not being worthy of the recognition.” 不患莫己知, 求為可知也 (The Analects)