School of Social and Political Science

Dr Jan Vrhovski

Research Fellow (Situating International and Global Mathematics)

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Vrhovski J, (ed.), Chen B, (ed.), Jiang Y, (ed.), Gandon S, (ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy in Pre-1949 China. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. (History of Analytic Philosophy).
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Vrhovski J. Analytic philosophy in Republican China: A historical introduction. In The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy in Pre-1949 China. Palgrave Macmillan. 2025
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Vrhovski J. A brief linguistic introduction. In The Palgrave Handbook of History of Analytic Philosophy in Pre-1949 China. Palgrave Macmillan. 2025
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Vrhovski J, Jõeleht K. Zhang Shenfu – From Russell to Vienna Circle. In The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy in Pre-1949 China. Palgrave Macmillan. 2025
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Vrhovski J. ‘Quasi-Boolean Algebra and Foundations of Topology': Chinese mathematical logician Hu Shihua and the group of Münster. History and Philosophy of Logic. 2025 Jun 17;1-21. Epub 2025 Jun 17. doi: 10.1080/01445340.2025.2494448
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Vrhovski J. Russell's scientific philosophy and the early formation of modern philosophy in China: A historical overview. Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. 2025 Feb 7;14(1).
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Vrhovski J, Huang C. On the Contextual Turn of Mencius's "Kingly Way" in Wartime Japan (1931-1945). In O'Dwyer S, editor, Confucianism at War: 1931-1945. 1 ed. Routledge. 2024 Epub 2024 Nov 21. doi: 10.4324/9781003569183-2
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Chu-Ching T, Vrhovski J. A grand tour under the Empire's eye: Colonial landscapes and assimilation in Shionoya On's Taiwan Travelogue. In O'Dwyer S, editor, Confucianism at War: 1931-1945. 1 ed. Routledge. 2024 Epub 2024 Nov 21. doi: 10.4324/9781003569183-11
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Chen W, Vrhovski J. The invention and creation of the "Way": The Shibunkai's Discourse on the Kingly Wau and Imperial Way after the Establishment of Manchukuo. In O'Dwyer S, editor, Confucianism at War: 1931-1945. 1 ed. Routledge. 2024 Epub 2024 Nov 21. doi: 10.4324/9781003569183-3
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Vrhovski J. Pingheng yu chuangxin: Beijing daxue zhexuexi de luojixue yanjiu yu jiaoxue (1916-1927). Zhexuemen (Beida Journal of Philosophy). 2024 Dec;23(1):184-205. 1.
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Vrhovski J. Xifang xuejie weihe changqi wushi Zhongguo de "Ke-Xuan lunzhan". 2024.
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Vrhovski J. Epistemology and logic in Early Twentieth Century China (1910-1928). In Rogacz D, Ambrogio S, editors, Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. 1 ed. Vol. 3. London: Bloomsbury . 2024
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Vrhovski J. Zhang Dongsun's encounters with "Logicism": From Russell to the objectivist bases of "Science and the View on Life". Asian Studies. 2024 Jan 18;12(1):323-354. doi: 10.4312/as.2024.12.1.323-354
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Vrhovski J. Zai zhexue he shuxue zhi jian: 20 shiji 30 niandai shuliluoji za Zhongguo chuanbo yu jiaoxue yanjiu de zongti qushi. In Jiang Y, editor, Zhongguo fenxi zhexue 2024. 2024 ed. Hangzhou: Zhejiang daxue chubanshe. 2024. p. 1-25. (Zhongguo fenxi zhexue).
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Vrhovski J. Mathematical logic in the Republican Period: A historical survey. In Liu F, Seligman JM, Zhai J, editors, Handbook of Logical Thought in China. Vol. 3. Springer. 2024. (Springer Reference).
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Vrhovski J, Chen B. How to account for the falsehood of an affirmative proposition and the truth of a negative proposition. Global Philosophy. 2023 Aug 13;33(4):1-26. 42. doi: 10.1007/s10516-023-09693-z
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Vrhovski J. The subject's guide to the Realm of Karma: Notes on reading the work of Dharma Master Taixu. Buddhist Studies Review. 2023 Jul 24;40(1):27-58. doi: 10.1558/bsrv.21787
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Vrhovski J, Rošker JS. "Posast novega humanizma": Modernizacija in transformacije subjektivnosti na Kitajskem. University of Ljubljana Press, 2023. 134 p. doi: 10.4312/9789612970628
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Chen B, Vrhovski J. [Translation of] The new correspondence theory of truth without the concept of fact. The Philosophical Forum. 2023;54(4):261-286. Epub 2023 Aug 21. doi: 10.1111/phil.12344
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Vrhovski J. "Qinghua luoji xuepai": Shuli luoji zai Qinghua (1926-1945). Luojixue yanjiu (Studies in Logic). 2022 Dec 31;15(6A):42-55.
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Vrhovski J. Buddhist realism for modern times: Intellectual-historical readings into Dharma Master Taixu's essays on realism. Ars et Humanitas. 2022 Dec 29;16(2):111-133. doi: 10.4312/ars.16.2.111-133
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Chen B, Vrhovski J. Philosophy as a cognitive enterprise. In Agazzi E, Arndt A, Grosshans HP, editors, Interpretationen einer gemeinsamen Welt: Von der Antike bis zur Moderne. Berlin: Lit Verlag. 2022. p. 258-289. (Philosophy in International Context).
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Vrhovski J. The liberating power of harmony and order: On the notions of liberty and mathematical logic in Zhang Shenfu's philosophical thought. Asian and African Studies. 2022 Aug 1;31(1):183-213. doi: 10.31577/aassav.2022.31.1.09
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Vrhovski J. Balance and innovation: Approaches to logic and the teaching of logic in the philosophy department of Peking University, 1916-1927. Journal of Modern Chinese History. 2022 Jul 19;15(1):55-77. doi: 10.1080/17535654.2021.1965777
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Bo C, (Guest ed.), Vrhovski J, (Guest ed.). History of logic in contemporary China (1949–2021). Asian Studies. 2022 May 9;10(2):11-15. doi: 10.4312/as.2022.10.2.11-15
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Vrhovski J, (Guest ed.), Bo C, (Guest ed.). History of Logic in Contemporary China. Asian Studies. 2022 May 9;10(2). doi: 10.4312/as.2022.10.2
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Vrhovski J. Between philosophy and mathematics: General trends in dissemination, teaching, and research on mathematical logic in 1930s China. Asian Studies. 2022 May 9;10(2):209-241. doi: 10.4312/as.2022.10.2.209-241
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Vrhovski J. Correcting the Logic of Names: Zhengming in the Analytic Modernisation of Chinese Academic Philosophy, 1920s-1940s. 2022. Paper presented at Power of Language: Correcting Names in Chinese Society Past and Present, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Vrhovski J. Traverses between cognitive consonance and existential crisis: Notes on Jiang Menglin's pragmatist notion of rensheng guan and his views on suicide from 1919. Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Philologica. 2021 Dec 31;2021(3):9-27. doi: 10.14712/24646830.2022.1
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Vrhovski J. Shadowlands of objectivism and comprehensiveness: An introduction to key concepts in Zhang Shenfu’s philosophical thought (1919–1948). Asian Studies. 2021 Aug 1;9(1):227-262. doi: 10.4312/AS.2021.9.1.227-262
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Vrhovski J, (ed.), Rošker JS, (ed.). Bertrand Russell's Visit to China: Selected Texts on the Centenary of Intercultural Dialogues in Logic and Epistemology. 1st ed. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press, 2021. 262 p. (Studia Humanitatis Asiatica). doi: 10.4312/9789610604594
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Vrhovski J. A few important landmarks in the chinese debates on dialectical and formal logic from the 1930s. Asian Studies. 2021 May 7;9(2):81-103. doi: 10.4312/as.2021.9.2.81-103
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Vrhovski J. Bertrand Russell, Fu Tong, and the emergence of scientific secularism in early 1920s China. Review of Religion and Chinese Society. 2021 Apr 27;8(1):1-26. doi: 10.1163/22143955-08010001
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Vrhovski J. ‘Qinghua School of Logic’: Mathematical logic at Qinghua University in Peking, 1926–1945. History and Philosophy of Logic. 2021;42(3):247-261. Epub 2021 Mar 31. doi: 10.1080/01445340.2021.1904663
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Vrhovski J. On infinitesimals and indefinitely cut wooden sticks: A Chinese debate on ‘mathematical logic’ and Russell’s introduction to mathematical philosophy from 1925. History and Philosophy of Logic. 2021;42(3):262-280. Epub 2021 Mar 22. doi: 10.1080/01445340.2021.1902073
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Chen B, Vrhovski J. Russell and Jin Yuelin on truth: A comparative study. Contemporary Chinese Thought. 2021;52(1/2):43-78. Epub 2021 Jun 2. doi: 10.1080/10971467.2021.1917942
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Lee M, Vrhovski J. The problem of ʺinner sageliness and outer kinglinessʺ revisited. In Rošker J, editor, Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese Philosophy: Traditional Foundations and New Developments. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2021. p. 22-38
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Vrhovski J. Zhang Shenfu - China's first popularalizer of Russell's Philosophy and Mathematical Logic, 1920s. In Vrhovski J, Rosker J, editors, Bertrand Russell's Visit to China: Selected Texts on the Centenary of Intellectual Dialogues in Logic and Epistemology. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press. 2021. p. 101-133
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Vrhovski J. Qinghua School of Logic and the Origins of Taiwanese Studies in Modern Logic: A Note on the Early Thought of Mou Zongsan and Yin Haiguang. In Rosker J, editor, Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese Philosophy: Traditional Foundations and New Developments. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2021. p. 212-240
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Vrhovski J, (ed.). One Hundred Years of Bertrand Russell's Visit to China: Dialogues on Human Perception and Autonomous Subjectivity. Contemporary Chinese Thought. 2021;52(1-2).
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Vrhovski J. Mr. Luosu and "China's Road to Freedom": A General Introduction to Russell's Visit to China (1920-1921). In Vrhovski J, Rosker J, editors, Bertrand Russell's Visit to China: Selected Texts on the Centenary of Intercultural Dialogues in Logic and Epistemology. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press. 2021. p. 21-58
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Vrhovski J. One hundred years of Chinese studies on philosophy of Bertrand Russell: Continuities, retrospectives, and new directions. Contemporary Chinese Thought. 2021;52(1-2):1-8. Epub 2021 Jun 2. doi: 10.1080/10971467.2021.1917938
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Vrhovski J. Between universal consciousness and cultural patterns of thought: Perspectives on Yu Yu's notion of logic in the 1930s. Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. 2020 Dec 31;18:151-179.
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Vrhovski J. From Mohism to the school of names, from pragmatism to materialist dialectics: Chinese interpretations of Gongsun Longzi as a text and source of Chinese logic, 1919-1937. International Communication of Chinese Culture. 2020 Dec;7:511-538. Epub 2020 Nov 17. doi: 10.1007/s40636-020-00202-0
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Vrhovski J. Qinghua school of logic and the origins of taiwanese studies in modern logic: A note on the early thought of mou zongsan and yin haiguang. Asian Studies. 2020 Sept 22;8(3):231-250. doi: 10.4312/as.2020.8.3.231-250
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Vrhovski J. Sest Budističnih simbolov: Analiza poetične podobe Budovega razsvetljenja iz dinastije Song. Asian Studies. 2020 Jan 10;8(1):237-266. doi: 10.4312/as.2020.8.1.237-266
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Huang C, Vrhovski J. The Debate and Confluence between Confucianism and Buddhism in East Asia: A Historical Overview. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. 99 p. (Global East Asia).
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Vrhovski J. Žad iz gore Kun: O simboliki žada v dinastiji Han. Asian Studies. 2019 Jan 31;7(1):293-311. doi: 10.4312/as.2019.7.1.293-311
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Vrhovski J. The Rise of the Red Logician: On the Emergence of Dialectical Logic in 1930s China. 2018. Paper presented at From Hegel to Mao and beyond - the long march of sinicizing Marxism, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Vrhovski J. Manifestation of the "True": Zhuangzian "Subjective Persona" in the Perspective of the Dichotomy between Subjectivism and Objectivism. 2017. Paper presented at Towards a New Paradigm of Subjectivity, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Vrhovski J. Dialectical Mathematism: Hu Shihua and the Foundations of Mathematics in 1950s China. 2016. Paper presented at BSHS Postraguate Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Vrhovski J. Budistična ikonografija in simbolizem chana v Su Shijevi pesmi »Sliki Wang Weijia in Wu Daozija«. Asian Studies. 2015 Dec 30;3(2):163-196. doi: 10.4312/as.2015.3.2.163-196
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Vrhovski J. From Western Science to Paradigms of Tradition: Zhang Shenfu's Mathematical Logic in Cohesion with Traditional Thought (1920s-30s). 2015. Paper presented at International Conference of the History of Science in East Asia, Paris, France.
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Vrhovski J. Analogical Past, Logical Modernity: Zhang Shenfu and the Confluence of Holism and Logical Method in Chinese Intellectual Enlightenment. 2014. Paper presented at Analogical Reasoning East and West, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Vrhovski J. Beginning of Mathematical Logic in China: Zhang Shenfu's Search for an Universal Model of Objectivity, 1919-1928. 2014. Paper presented at Science as Knowledge, Ideal and Practice in 20th Century China, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Vrhovski J. Apologeticism in Chinese Nestorian documents from the Tang dynasty: Notes on some early traces of Aristotelianism in China. Asian Studies. 2013 Nov 29;1(2):53-70. doi: 10.4312/as.2013.1.2.53-70
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