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Hello! I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington and Lee University. Prior to coming to W&L, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College.
I received my PhD from Syracuse University in the USA. Before Syracuse, I studied philosophy at the University of St Andrews (MPhil) in the UK and Wuhan University (BA) in China. I work primarily in metaphysics (broadly construed), Buddhist philosophy, and Chinese philosophy. My research centers on systematically developing Buddhist and Chinese philosophy to meet the demands of both careful textual scholarship and rigorous philosophical reconstruction. Working across traditions often uncovers how assumptions and agendas that are deeply entrenched and seldom questioned in one tradition are quickly dismissed in another. Hence, by contrasting frameworks of different traditions, we are less likely to confuse familiarity with certainty and to fall into dogmatism. Moreover, resources developed in one tradition may help solve problems that occur in another tradition. I am also interested in where philosophy intersects with everyday experience: How does it deepen self-knowledge? How does it enrich our relationships with others? How does it shed light on contemporary issues, such as the challenges posed by our development of AI? In answering questions like these, philosophy is not just a collection of theories but an ongoing practice. It shapes how we live with the challenges we face. |
