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VITA CCBC at ESSEX D-222 410.780.6451 |
v Ph.D. Philosophy: Ohio State
University, 1976
v M. A. Chinese Language and
Culture: Ohio State University, 1984
v M. A. Chinese Intellectual
History: Princeton University, 1990
v B. A. Psychology: Ohio Wesleyan
University, 1967
Chinese Philosophy, Ethics,
and History of Philosophy
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Logic, Chinese Language, Buddhism
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
v Associate Professor of Philosophy:
9/96 – present
The Community College of Baltimore
County at Essex
v Adjunct Professor of History:
9/97 – 2001
The Maryland Institute College
of Art
v Assistant Professor of Philosophy:
9/91 - 9/96
Essex Communtiy College
v Lecturer in Philosophy: 9/90
- 6/91
Loyola College, Baltimore,
MD 21210
v Lecturer in Humanities: 6/90
- 8/90
Stevens Institute of Technology,
Hoboken, NJ 07030
v Associate Professor of English:
1/88 - 6/88
Tamkang University, Taipei,
Taiwan
v Lecturer in Chinese Culture:
9/85 - 6/86
Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH 43201
v Visiting Instructor of Chinese
Language: 9/84 - 6/85
Denison University, Granville,
OH
v Teaching Associate in Chinese
Language & Culture: 9/82 - 8/84
Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH 43201
v Associate Professor of English:
9/78 - 8/81
Soochow University, Taipei,
Taiwan
TRANSLATIONS
"A Cry in Beijing, For
Liberty -- or Death!" in Baltimore Sun, July 3, 1989, p. 11A;
translated and edited from "Diary
of the Beijing Student Hunger Strike" in Outlook Weekly, 5/29/89
& 6/5/89.
PUBLICATIONS
"Zhuangzi,
Mysticism, and the Rejection of Distinctions," in Sino-Platonic Papers,
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania,
No. 100, February, 2000.
"Philosophical
Sense and Classical Chinese Thought," Review article of A Daoist Theory
of Chinese Thought, by Chad Hansen in Asian Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 2, July, 1996.
"New Translations of the
Old Master(s)," Review article of three recent translations of the Lao
Tzu: Tao Te Ching, in Philosophy
East and West, Vol. 44, No. 2, April, 1994.
"Revisiting the Shop of
Confucius," Review article of The
East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage And Its Modern Adaptation, in Asian Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 1,
January, 1994.
"The Huai-nan Tzu Alteration," in The Journal of Chinese Philosophy,
Vol. 20, No. 2, June, 1993.
"Review of Chuang-Tzu
for Spiritual Transformation," in Asian Philosophy, Vol. 1,
No. 2, January, 1991.
"Logic and Language in
the Chuang Tzu," in Asian Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 1, January,
1991.
"The Eight-Legged Essay:
Its Reputation, Structure, and Limitations," Tamkang Review Vol.
17, No. 2, June, 1986.
"There
is No Paradox of Desire in Buddhism," in Philosophy East and West,
Vol. 30, No. 4, October, 1980.
"Is
it Possible to End World Poverty," Presentation given for Ethics
Day at CCBC Essex, April 5, 2006.
"How to Talk about Rights." Presentation given for Ethics Day at CCBC at Essex, April 16, 2002. OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION
"What Makes a Suicide Terrorist Tick?" Talk and Power Point presentation to the Department of Social Sciences Colloquium on the Events of 9/11, CCBC Essex, November 7, 2001. POWER POINT PRESENTATION
"Do We Have to Believe in God to be Ethical?" Talk presented for Ethics Week at The Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics, The University of Baltimore, March 6, 2001. OUTLINE OF PRESENTION
"Introduction to The Tao Te Ching." Talk and calligraphy demonstration presented to the Social Sciences Colloquium at CCBC Essex, March 26, 2001. OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION
"If God exists, everything
is permitted.” Power Point Talk presented
for the Fourth Annual Ethics Day at The Community College of Baltimore County
at Essex, April 4, 2000.
"Was Zhuangzi an Enemy
of Reason?" paper read on January 6, 1998 at The Third International
Research Conference in Asian and Comparative Philosophy at the East-West Center
in Honolulu, Hawaii.
"Should Ethics Be Morally
Neutral?" paper read at the Essex Community College Social Sciences Colloquium,
April 26, 1966.
"Chuang Tzu and Amoralism,"
paper presented to the International Society for Chinese Philosophy at the
American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, December 28,
1996.
"Mind Body Dualism,"
guest television appearance on “No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed,” October 9, 1994.
"Master Lu Chu's Demonstration
of a Noble Note," read at the twenty-fifth anniversary conference of
The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, July 28, 1993.
"The Tao Te Ching:
The Best of Translations," paper read at The Community College Humanities
Association, Eastern Division Meeting, November 13, 1992.