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TAMARA ALBERTINI
Associate Professor
tamaraa@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki D-303
Office Phone: (808) 956-6030
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
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| Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy, Feminist Issues in Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy and Contemporary Sufism
Tamara Albertini received her D.Phil. in 1991 from Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Munich. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA, Lecturer at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, Assistant Professor at Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Munich, Germany, and Lecturer at the Volkshochschule Munchen, Munich, Germany. Professor Albertini has published two books and numerous articles and reviews. She is currently working on a monograph of Charles de Bovelles and on a book in Islamic philosophy. |
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ROGER T. AMES
Professor
Editor, Philosophy East and West
rtames@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki D-302
Office Phone: (808) 956-7288
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Chinese Philosophy (Confucianism and Daoism), Comparative Philosophy, American Philosophy
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| Roger T. Ames joined the Department as an Assistant Professor in 1978. He received his doctorate from the University of London and has spent many years abroad in China and Japan studying Chinese philosophy. He has been Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Peking University, a fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and has lectured extensively at various universities around the world. Professor Ames has been the recipient of many grants and awards, including the Regents' Merit and Excellence in Teaching 1990-91, and many grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Ames has authored, edited, and translated some 30 books, and has written numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals. He was the subject editor for the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean entries in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Currently he continues to work on interpretive studies and explicitly "philosophical" translations of the core classical texts, taking full advantage in his research of the exciting new archaeological finds. |
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RON BONTEKOE
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair
bontekoe@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki D-304
Office Phone: (808) 956-8783
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Hermeneutics, Epistemology, Process Metaphysics, Philosophy of Law
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| Professor Bontekoe received his doctorate from the University of
Toronto in 1988. He spent two years teaching philosophy at the
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto before joining the
Department here in 1990. In addition to his areas of specialization,
listed above, his interests include aesthetics, the philosophy of
history, and the philosophy of science. Professor Bontekoe is the
author of a book on hermeneutics and is co-editor of two
anthologies. He is currently working on a book on dignity. |
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ARINDAM CHAKRABARTI
Professor
arindam@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki C-305
Office Phone: (808) 956-7990
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Indian Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Comparative
Philosophy
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| Professor Chakrabarti received his doctorate from Oxford University,
England in 1982. From 1983 to 1988 he was a Lecturer in Philosophy
at the University of Calcutta, India. Between 1988 and 1992 he held
the Spalding Visiting Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford, a
Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study at Edinburgh, Jacobsen
Fellowship and tutorship at University College London and a Visiting
Assistant Professorship at the University of Washington, Seattle.
After being trained as an analytic philosopher of language at
Oxford, Professor Chakrabarti has spent several years receiving
traditional training in Indian logic (Navya Nyaya) and metaphysics
which made him fluent in Sanskrit. Before coming to Hawaii in 1997,
he was a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University
of Delhi, India. Professor Chakrabarti has edited or authored four
books and has published numerous articles and reviews. He is
currently working on a book on moral psychology. |
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CHUNG-YING CHENG
Professor
Editor, Journal of Chinese Philosophy
ccheng@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki C-303
Office Phone: (808) 956-6081
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Neo-Confucianism, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Comparative
Philosophy, Philosophy of Logic and Language, Theory of Knowledge,
Philosophical Hermeneutics, Metaphysics
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| A member of the Department since 1963, Professor Cheng has become a
senior scholar in Chinese philosophy. With a broad and deep
background in the traditions of classical Chinese philosophy and
Neo-Confucianism, he received his doctorate from Harvard University
in the field of analytical philosophy and logic. He has received
fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, the
Pacific Cultural Foundation and the Stanford Institute in the
Philosophy of Science. He is the founder and a past president of the
International Society of Chinese philosophy. He also founded and
serves as president of the International Society for Yijing Studies.
Cheng has edited the Journal of Chinese Philosophy since its
founding in 1972 and has received an Honorary Doctorate from the Far
Eastern Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Professor
Cheng has authored and edited 15 books and over l50 articles in
Western, Chinese, and comparative philosophy. He is currently
working on a book on onto-hermeneutics and a book on contemporary
Chinese philosophy. |
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VRINDA DALMIYA
Associate Professor
vrinda@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki B-303
Office Phone: (808) 956-5981
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy
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| Professor Dalmiya received her doctorate from Brown University in
1988 following an undergraduate education in India. She taught at
Montana State University from 1988 to 1993 and has been a Visiting
Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Professor Dalmiya joined the Department in 1998 from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi. She has received several research
grants and has published in a range of journals. She is currently
working on several projects within her areas of interest. |
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ELIOT DEUTSCH
Professor - Retired
eliot@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki
C-302
Office Phone: (808) 956-8323
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical
Anthropology, Comparative Philosophy
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Eliot Deutsch joined the Department in 1967 as Professor of
Philosophy and as Editor of Philosophy East
and West. He received his doctorate from Columbia University and has been a visiting professor at The
University of Chicago and at Harvard University and a Visiting
Fellow and Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He
has also been an invited lecturer at universities throughout the
world, including Oxford, Lucknow University, Boston University,
Fudan University (Shanghai), Madras University, the University of
Rajasthan, Nanjing University, Harvard, and the University of
Chicago.
Professor Deutsch has been the recipient of fellowships from the
American Institute of Indian Studies, The American Council of
Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He
is a past president of the Society for Asian and Comparative
Philosophy.
Professor Deutsch has published 16 books and over 100
articles and reviews in professional journals. His work has been
translated into French, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Japanese
and Spanish. |
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THOMAS E.
JACKSON
Specialist
Director of Philosophy in the Schools Project
tjackson@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki C-307
Office Phone: (808) 956-7287
Curriculum Vitae:
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| After completing a Ph.D. in Comparative Philosophy at the University
of Hawaii, Dr. Jackson worked in the Culture Learning Institute at
the East-West Center where he played an important role in founding
the Hawaii International Film Festival. In 1983 his interest in the
possibilities of engaging in philosophical thinking with young
children brought him back to the Philosophy Department, where his
focus has been on establishing philosophy as a recognized, essential
part of the K-12 school curriculum. Since 1984 he has served as
Director of the Philosophy in
the Schools Project, working with
public school teachers and their students, assisting them in learning
how to nurture philosophical inquiry in their classrooms. His work
as director has taken him to Austria, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and most
recently to Nanjing, Beijing, and Jiaozuo, China, where he worked
with kindergarten, elementary, intermediate, and high school students and
conducted workshops with their teachers, who are eager to learn how
to facilitate philosophical inquires with their students. |
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KENNETH KIPNIS
Professor
kkipnis@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki B-313
Office Phone: (808) 956-8954
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Medical Ethics
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| Professor Kipnis has been a member of the Department since 1979,
having previously taught at Lake Forest College and Purdue University.
He received his doctorate from Brandeis University and his M.A. from
the University of Chicago where he also studied law. He has been a
Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the
Professions and a Humanist-Resident at the Department of Pediatrics at
Kapiolani Women's and Children's Hospital in Honolulu, a project
funded by the Hawaii Committee for the Humanities and other local
foundations. He has also been a Humanist in-Residence at the G. N.
Wilcox Memorial Hospital on Kauai. Professor Kipnis was instrumental
in developing a code of ethics for the National Association for the
Education of Young Children, a 60,000-member professional association
of pre-school educators. He currently serves as the Executive Director
of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social
Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL). He has published works on property rights and
on legal ethics. A recent paper on the surgical treatment of
intersexuality received the GIRES award for research on gender
identity. Professor Kipnis is currently doing work on blackmail and on
ethics in prison health care. |
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STEVE ODIN
Professor
steveo@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki B-307
Office Phone: (808) 956-8172
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Japanese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, American
Philosophy, Systematic Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Aesthetics
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| Professor Odin teaches Japanese/Comparative philosophy. He has spent
five years studying in Japan and one year in India. In addition to his
years teaching at University of Hawaii he has been a Visiting
Professor at Boston University and Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.
His most recent grants for research in Japan include NEH, Japan
Foundation, and Fulbright. Professor Odin has published two books, his
most recent work entitled The Social Self in Zen and American
Pragmatism (1996), and approximately 25 articles in Comparative
Philosophy. He is currently writing a manuscript on Duty Ethics in
Kant, the Gita, and Bushido. |
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GRAHAM PARKES
Professor
parkes@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki C-304
Office Phone: (808) 956-6686
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Comparative Philosophy (Continental European, Chinese, and Japanese),
Philosophy of Depth Psychology, Philosophy of Literature and Film
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Professor Parkes received his doctorate from the University of
California, Berkeley, and his B.A. from the Queen's College, Oxford.
Since joining the Department in 1979, he has been active in film and
video work as well as in more conventional philosophical scholarship.
He is the editor of and contributor to anthologies on Heidegger and on
Nietzsche in relation to Asian Thought, translator of Nishitani
Keiji's The Self Overcoming of Nihilism and the author of a
work on Nietzsche's psychology. He is currently working on a
philosophical biography of Nietzsche, a translation of his Also
sprach Zarathustra, and a video project on Zen rock gardens. |
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ROY W. PERRETT
Professor
perrett@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki B-304
Office Phone: (808) 956-8859
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Buddhist Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Moral and Political
Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion.
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| Roy Perrett joined the Department in 2002. He was educated in New
Zealand at the Universities of Canterbury (M.A.) and Otago (Ph.D.),
and in India as a Commonwealth Scholar at the Banaras Hindu
University. He taught philosophy in New Zealand at the University of
Otago, Victoria University of Wellington, and Massey University (where
he was also Coordinator of the Politics Program). Subsequently, he
moved to Australia to take up a position as Senior Research Fellow at
the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt
University. His publications include five books: Death and
Immortality (1987); Indian Philosophy of Religion (ed.,
1989); Justice, Ethics and New Zealand Society (co-ed., 1992); Hindu Ethics: A Philosophical Study (1998); and Indian
Philosophy: A Collection of Readings (5 vols., ed., 2001); as well
as numerous articles. |
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JAMES TILES
Professor
jtiles@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki D-307
Office Phone: (808) 956-7001
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
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Ancient Philosophy, American Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Science
Although a native of the United States, Jim Tiles received most of his
academic training and (prior to coming to Hawaii in 1989) all of his
teaching experience in England. He took his D.Phil. at Oxford in 1978
and for fifteen years was lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at
the University of Reading. He has written Things that Happen,
an essay on the conceptual status of events, and the Dewey volume in
the series "The Arguments of the Philosophers" and collaborated with
Mary Tiles on An Introduction to Historical Epistemology. He
just completed an introductory ethics text and has returned to
research on Greek, Roman, and medieval European philosophy. |
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MARY TILES
Professor and Chair
mtiles@hawaii.edu
Office: Sakamaki B-305
Office Phone: (808) 956-8250
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Philosophy and History of Mathematics, Science and Technology in China
and Europe, Contemporary French Philosophy of Science, Logic, and
Philosophy of Language.
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| Mary Tiles joined the Department in 1989. She holds a doctorate from
the University of Bristol and a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford.
She taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and at
Swarthmore College before coming to Hawaii. One of her books is on the
French philosopher of science, Gaston Bachelard; two others deal with
aspects of the philosophy of mathematics; one co-authored book is on
epistemology and another on technology and culture. Her recent
research interests focus on the applied uses of mathematics,
measurement and modeling in both Chinese and European contexts. |
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