1. Mark Csikszentmihalyi

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Csikszentmihalyi has an AB in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Harvard) and a Ph.D in Asian Languages (Stanford). He uses both excavated and transmitted texts to reconstruct the religions, philosophies, and cultures of early China. Recent books include Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China (2004) and Readings in Han Chinese Thought (2006). He is currently translating a set of Song dynasty essays on the Zhuangzi by Li Yuanzhuo . He is also currently Editor of the Journal of Chinese Religions,and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

 

2. Yasuo Deguchi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Yasuo Deguchi is an associate professor of Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. His interest includes philosophy of mathematical sciences (probability theory and statistics, scientific realism, philosophy of computer simulation and chaos studies), Kant’s philosophy of mathematics, Skolem’s philosophy, and analytic Asian philosophy.

 

3. Jay Garfield

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jay Garfield is the Doris Silbert professor in the humanities and professor of philosophy. Professor Garfield is on leave through 2015-2016. During that time he is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple professor of humanities and head of studies in philosophy at Yale-NUS College, professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore and recurrent visiting professor of philosophy at Yale University. Professor Garfield is also professor of philosophy at Melbourne University and adjunct professor of philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies. He teaches and pursues research in the philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science, logic, philosophy of language, Buddhist philosophy, cross-cultural hermeneutics, theoretical and applied ethics and epistemology. Garfield’s most recent books are Western Idealism and its Critics (CUTS press 2012), Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic (with  Jim Henle and Tom Tymoczko, Wiley Blackwell 2011), Indian Philosophy in English from Renaissance to Independence (with Nalini Bhushan, Oxford 2010), Contrary Thinking: Selected Essays of Daya Krishna (with Nalini Bhushan and Daniel Raveh, Oxford 2010) andMoonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy (with the Cowherds, Oxford 2010). His work in progress includes a book to be entitled Engaging Buddhism: Why Buddhism Matters to Contemporary Philosophy; a book with Nalini Bhushan on the history of the Indian renaissance; a set of volumes with John Powers, John Makeham and others on Alambanapariksa and its Indian, Tibetan and Chinese commentaries; and a couple of anthologies. Professor Garfield and colleagues have also recently been awarded major research grants from the John Templeton Foundation to investigate the role of contradiction and paradox in East Asian philosophical traditions and to investigate the impact of religious views about the self on attitudes towards intrapersonal connectedness, anxiety about death, and post-mortem existence.

 

4. Chad Hansen 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chad Hansen has lived in Hong Kong and worked for the University of Hong Kong for most of his professional life. He earlier had taught for 7 years at the University of Pittsburgh and for 12 years at the University of Vermont. He has also had visiting professorships at several other international universities. His books include Language and Logic in Ancient China, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, andLaozi—Tao Te Ching on The Art of Harmony. His main research has focused on the issues of philosophy of language as applied to and as found in Chinese philosophy. He studies Chinese semantic theory, logic, philosophy of mind, and metaethics as well as exploring the philosophy of language underpinnings of the thought of Mozi, the Later Mohists and Zhuangzi-Laozi—the Classical Daoists. He is presently Honorary Professor and Chair Professor of Chinese Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Hong Kong.

 

5. Bryan Van Norden 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B.W. Van Norden is a Professor in the Philosophy Department, and regularly teaches in the Department of Chinese and Japanese, at Vassar College.  Professor Van Norden has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in philosophy. His primary area of specialization is Chinese philosophy, but he also has broad interests in Chinese literature and Western philosophy, including ethics. His most recent books are a textbook, Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (2011), a translation, Mengzi with Selections from Traditional Commentaries (2008), a monograph, Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy (2007), a revised edition of a translation anthology that he co-edited and contributed to, Reading in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2005), and a collection of essays that he edited and contributed to, Confucius and the Analects (2001). In addition to his teaching duties and research, Professor Van Norden is currently Chair of the Department of Philosophy.

 

6. Graham Priest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. He is known for his work on non-classical logic, particularly in connection with dialetheism, on the history of philosophy, and on Buddhist philosophy.  He has published articles in nearly every major philosophy and logic journal. His books include: In Contradiction: A Study of the Transconsistent, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff 1987 (2nd edition: Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006), Beyond the Limits of Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995 (2nd edition: Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002), Logic: a Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press 200a, Towards Non-Being: the Semantics and Metaphysics of Intentionality, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005, Doubt Truth to be a Liar, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006. His new book, One, is about to appear with Oxford University Press.

 

7. Robert Sharf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Sharf is D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.A. in Religious Studies (1979) and an M.A. in Chinese Studies (1981) from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Michigan (1990). His graduate work included study in Japan; he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Research into the Humanities (Jinbun Kagaku Kenkyūjo) at Kyoto University, and also conducted fieldwork at Kōfukuji in Nara (1985-87). Before joining the Berkeley faculty he taught in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University (1989-95) and in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan (1995-2003). He works primarily in the area of medieval Chinese Buddhism (especially Chan), but he also dabbles in Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, and methodological issues in the study of religion. He is author of Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise (2002), co-editor of Living Images: Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context (2001), and is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Thinking about Not Thinking: Buddhist Struggles with Mindlessness, Insentience, and Nirvana.” In addition to his appointment in East Asian Languages and Cultures, he is Chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies at UCB. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, theJournal for the Study of Chinese Religions, the Journal of Religion in Japan, and the Kuroda Institute Series published in conjunction with University of Hawai’i Press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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