Nick Jones
@nicholaos.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy. Interests in Chinese Buddhism, systems sciences, metaphysics.
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Nick Jones
@nicholaos.bsky.social
· Apr 18
Oxford UP is offering 30% off pre-orders for my book on Fazang's metaphysics of interdependence, with code AUFLY30 at global.oup.com/academic. By way of enticement, a thread. #philsky
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Reading list on Chinese philosophy used by Chinese Australians in Sydney in 1934
October 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Reading list on Chinese philosophy used by Chinese Australians in Sydney in 1934
Terrific article on doing philosophy of (and through) table-top role playing games (D&D specifically)! #philsky
Roll Insight: Teaching Undergraduate Philosophy through TTRPGs | Board Game Academics
boardgameacademics.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Terrific article on doing philosophy of (and through) table-top role playing games (D&D specifically)! #philsky
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i am surprised that Manan @sepoy.bsky.social doesn’t publicize this piece saying I told you so but please read his eerily prophetic article on the link between the end of humanistic area studies & language learning w/ the rise of military funded LLMs and now AI spheres-journal.org/contribution...
Technologies of Power – From Area Studies to Data Sciences – spheres
spheres-journal.org
August 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
i am surprised that Manan @sepoy.bsky.social doesn’t publicize this piece saying I told you so but please read his eerily prophetic article on the link between the end of humanistic area studies & language learning w/ the rise of military funded LLMs and now AI spheres-journal.org/contribution...
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New translation tool for the languages of Buddhism—Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese.
dharmamitra.org
Still makes mistakes (I just tested it on the 宋高僧傳 biography of the poet-monk Guanxiu 貫休 and noticed a few errors), but 1000x more accurate than anything I've seen before.
dharmamitra.org
Still makes mistakes (I just tested it on the 宋高僧傳 biography of the poet-monk Guanxiu 貫休 and noticed a few errors), but 1000x more accurate than anything I've seen before.
Dharmamitra · a toolkit for the languages of the Dharma
A toolkit for the languages of the Dharma
dharmamitra.org
July 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
New translation tool for the languages of Buddhism—Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese.
dharmamitra.org
Still makes mistakes (I just tested it on the 宋高僧傳 biography of the poet-monk Guanxiu 貫休 and noticed a few errors), but 1000x more accurate than anything I've seen before.
dharmamitra.org
Still makes mistakes (I just tested it on the 宋高僧傳 biography of the poet-monk Guanxiu 貫休 and noticed a few errors), but 1000x more accurate than anything I've seen before.
Paul Swanson’s translation of Zhiyi’s Mohezhiguan for BDK is now available! www.bdkamerica.org/product/grea...
Great Cessation-and-Contemplation Volume I
The Great Cessation-and-Contemplation (Mohezhiguan, T. 1911) by Tiantai Zhiyi (538–597) is one of the most influential texts in East Asian Buddhism. It provided the foundation for Tiantai Buddhism as ...
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July 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Paul Swanson’s translation of Zhiyi’s Mohezhiguan for BDK is now available! www.bdkamerica.org/product/grea...
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A new volume of the De Gruyter Library of Chinese Humanities!
The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps
A parallel text translation of the only extant contemporaneous poetry anthology from the High Tang (completed ca 753 CE).
The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps
A parallel text translation of the only extant contemporaneous poetry anthology from the High Tang (completed ca 753 CE).
The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps
The “High Tang” is the period long renowned as the golden age of Chinese poetry. This book is the first translation into any language of the only extant anthology compiled contemporaneously that was solely devoted to poetry composed during that period. It contains 230 poems by 24 different poets and was completed around 753, providing a rare contemporary view of what one well-informed reader considered the best verse of the age. The selections are of poems in various lengths, forms, and styles. The poets represented include most of those recognized since then as the greatest writers of the time, as well as those who seem largely forgotten now but who were in their own day held in equally high regard.
www.degruyterbrill.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A new volume of the De Gruyter Library of Chinese Humanities!
The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps
A parallel text translation of the only extant contemporaneous poetry anthology from the High Tang (completed ca 753 CE).
The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps
A parallel text translation of the only extant contemporaneous poetry anthology from the High Tang (completed ca 753 CE).
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My personal 5-min. video: vimeo.com/84252711 on why humanities matter. I can’t improve on the message. But my passion now is the Center for Humanities Communication, which I cofounded to assist the humanities in methods, resources, tools for telling its _why_, center-humanities-communication.org
Why the Humanities Matter -- A Story About Borders
A story and statement about the importance of the humanities in today's world by Alan Liu, an English professor who started out a chemistry major. Video created…
vimeo.com
June 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
My personal 5-min. video: vimeo.com/84252711 on why humanities matter. I can’t improve on the message. But my passion now is the Center for Humanities Communication, which I cofounded to assist the humanities in methods, resources, tools for telling its _why_, center-humanities-communication.org
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Mindscape 319 | Bryan Van Norden @bryanvannorden.bsky.social on Philosophy From the Rest of the World. There are many interesting footnotes, not all of them to Plato!
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
June 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Mindscape 319 | Bryan Van Norden @bryanvannorden.bsky.social on Philosophy From the Rest of the World. There are many interesting footnotes, not all of them to Plato!
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
So a psychologist, two systems engineers, and a philosopher walk into an AI symposium. I can’t remember what they said, but someone recorded it for YouTube… www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbMS...
AI Symposium 2025 - Dr. Bryan Mesmer, Dr. Nicholaos Jones, Dr. Nicholas Loyd, & Dr. Kristin Weger
YouTube video by U.S. Space & Rocket Center
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May 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
So a psychologist, two systems engineers, and a philosopher walk into an AI symposium. I can’t remember what they said, but someone recorded it for YouTube… www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbMS...
Here's a public-facing effort to think through Fazang's Huayan Buddhist approach to conceptualizing reality's fundamental structure... #philsky
Chinese philosophy's attack on reality's foundations | Nicholaos Jones
iai.tv
May 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Here's a public-facing effort to think through Fazang's Huayan Buddhist approach to conceptualizing reality's fundamental structure... #philsky
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🧵 Yesterday we released our new risk assessments of social AI companions. They are alarmingly NOT SAFE for kids under 18—they provide dangerous advice, engage in inappropriate sexual interactions, & create unhealthy dependencies that pose particular risks to adolescent brains.
tinyurl.com/2nvypku2
tinyurl.com/2nvypku2
May 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🧵 Yesterday we released our new risk assessments of social AI companions. They are alarmingly NOT SAFE for kids under 18—they provide dangerous advice, engage in inappropriate sexual interactions, & create unhealthy dependencies that pose particular risks to adolescent brains.
tinyurl.com/2nvypku2
tinyurl.com/2nvypku2
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Deep into writing my book. Central claim is that we should understand the "everything is mind only" assertion of early Yogacara texts to be a diagnosis that parallels the diagnosis of suffering from the four noble truths.
May 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Deep into writing my book. Central claim is that we should understand the "everything is mind only" assertion of early Yogacara texts to be a diagnosis that parallels the diagnosis of suffering from the four noble truths.
Li Kang has an excellent new paper (open access!) on conceptions of interdependence from Chinese Buddhist traditions of Tiantai, Sanlun, Huayan (my favorite!), and Chan. Accessible and insightful, with some great analytic-style reconstructions too. #philsky
From Emptiness to Interconnectedness: Identity and Dependence in Chinese Buddhism
“Everything is interconnected” is a central theme of Chinese Buddhism. This article examines how four prominent Chinese Buddhist schools—Tiantai 天台, Sanlun 三論, Huayan 華嚴, and Chan 禪—engaged with inte...
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May 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Li Kang has an excellent new paper (open access!) on conceptions of interdependence from Chinese Buddhist traditions of Tiantai, Sanlun, Huayan (my favorite!), and Chan. Accessible and insightful, with some great analytic-style reconstructions too. #philsky
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Now available! Demonstrating why Chinese Buddhist social philosophy offers powerful resources for social justice and liberation today, Just Awakening invites readers to think with modern Yogācāra philosophers about other ways of building egalitarian futures. buff.ly/zrqU8wF #JustAwakening
April 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Now available! Demonstrating why Chinese Buddhist social philosophy offers powerful resources for social justice and liberation today, Just Awakening invites readers to think with modern Yogācāra philosophers about other ways of building egalitarian futures. buff.ly/zrqU8wF #JustAwakening
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Very proud to see my amazing PhD student @zelny.bsky.social ‘s first peer-reviewed article published yesterday!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Offloading Wisdom: Four Technological Relations that Mediate Phronesis - Philosophy & Technology
Although there has been much discussion regarding how technology mediates our practical and ethical lives, little has been said about how it mediates phronesis: the skilled deliberative capacity to di...
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April 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Very proud to see my amazing PhD student @zelny.bsky.social ‘s first peer-reviewed article published yesterday!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Out now: What *is* ‘ancient history’? Why it is much bigger and more important than we might think, how generations of scholars have dismembered it, how we can do it justice – and why ‘Classics’ has run its course: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
What Is Ancient History?
From one of today’s most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters—and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global way
press.princeton.edu
April 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Out now: What *is* ‘ancient history’? Why it is much bigger and more important than we might think, how generations of scholars have dismembered it, how we can do it justice – and why ‘Classics’ has run its course: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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my translation of The Hedgehog by Zheng Zhi 郑执 is in The Paris Review
www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8386...
www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8386...
The Hedgehog by Zheng Zhi, translated by Jeremy Tiang
I found out only later that when my ma called Ensign Wang a lunatic, she’d meant it literally—he really was a mental patient.
www.theparisreview.org
March 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
my translation of The Hedgehog by Zheng Zhi 郑执 is in The Paris Review
www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8386...
www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8386...
Oxford UP is offering 30% off pre-orders for my book on Fazang's metaphysics of interdependence, with code AUFLY30 at global.oup.com/academic. By way of enticement, a thread. #philsky
April 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Oxford UP is offering 30% off pre-orders for my book on Fazang's metaphysics of interdependence, with code AUFLY30 at global.oup.com/academic. By way of enticement, a thread. #philsky
Just one month to go until the official release of -Metaphors for Interdependence-, the first academic book focusing on Fazang's metaphysics since Francis Cook's 1977 -Hua-yen Buddhism-! Oxford is graciously providing free access to Chapter 1 until May 21. Find it at academic.oup.com/book/59837/c...
April 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just one month to go until the official release of -Metaphors for Interdependence-, the first academic book focusing on Fazang's metaphysics since Francis Cook's 1977 -Hua-yen Buddhism-! Oxford is graciously providing free access to Chapter 1 until May 21. Find it at academic.oup.com/book/59837/c...
In anticipation of an immanent book release, and before doing a promo, I made a web resource for learning about Fazang. It has a list of his writings, important secondary sources in English, an in-progress list of key teachings, and a list of writings from important predecessors. What's missing?
Fazang
"this Dharma escapes common sense and is difficult to believe"
- Treatise on the Five Teachings, Chapter 10, Section 3 (T45.1866.507b)
Fazang's Writings: List of writings attributed to Fazang, alon...
sites.google.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In anticipation of an immanent book release, and before doing a promo, I made a web resource for learning about Fazang. It has a list of his writings, important secondary sources in English, an in-progress list of key teachings, and a list of writings from important predecessors. What's missing?
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Columbia University Press is proud to distribute books from The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, a leading publisher of works in Chinese literature, Asian studies, politics, history, philosophy, sociology, and more. Browse their books at #AAS2025 (booth 213) or online. buff.ly/QbahTlN
March 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Columbia University Press is proud to distribute books from The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, a leading publisher of works in Chinese literature, Asian studies, politics, history, philosophy, sociology, and more. Browse their books at #AAS2025 (booth 213) or online. buff.ly/QbahTlN
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Just got a grant that allows us to offer a free sample philosophy ethics short story fiction books for educators. No strings attached. And yes, we pay for shipping too.
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February 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Just got a grant that allows us to offer a free sample philosophy ethics short story fiction books for educators. No strings attached. And yes, we pay for shipping too.
buff.ly/3WcjsMa
buff.ly/3WcjsMa