PhD Jana Rošker
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contemporary Chinese philosophy, modern Chinese philosophy, transcultural comparative philosophy, classical Chinese logic, traditional Chinese epistemology, methodology of transcultural studies, methodology of sinological research, Modern New Confucianism

Short Biographical Data: Professor Jana S. Rošker, studied Sinology and obtained her PhD degree at the Vienna University. She is the first Slovene Sinologist, co-founder and long-standing Head of the Department of Asian studies at the University in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Altogether she spent over 10 years in China and Taiwan at several universities and research institutes. Her academic interests include (Post)comparative philosophy, Modern and contemporary Chinese philosophy, Chinese epistemology and logic, and Methodology of transcultural research in Sinology. In these research areas, she has published thirty books, and over two hundred articles and book chapters. She is chief editor of the journal Asian Studies (https://journals.uni-lj.si/as), president of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP), and the founder, first president and honorary member of the European Association of Chinese Philosophy (EACP). She was awarded with several prestigious awards, as for instance the National Slovene Research Agency prize for extraordinary scientific achievements (2013), the Golden Plaque of the University of Ljubljana (2015), the National Žiga Zois prize for research work of national significance (2015), the French-Taiwanese Cultural Foundation Prize (2020), the most excellent research work award of the University of Ljubljana (2022), and (together with Jan Vrhovski) the Bertrand Russell Society book award (2022).