Education
Ph.D., Clarement Graduate School, 1973
M.A., Clarement Graduate School, 1969
B.A. (Honors), Oregon State University, 1966
Areas of Research & Teaching
Buddhism
Confucianism
Taoism
Wittgenstein
Process Philosophy
Selected Publications
The Virtue of Non–Violence: from Gautama to Gandhi, SUNY Press, 2004.
“Whitehead, Confucius, and the Aesthetics of Virtue,” Asian Philosophy 14 (2004), pp. 173–92.
“Synthetic Reason, Aesthetic Order, and the Grammar of Virtue,” Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 18: 4 (2001), pp. 13–28.
Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives, SUNY Press, 2000.
“The Yogi and the Goddess,” International Journal of Hindu Studies 1 (1997), pp. 265–87.
“Xunzi and the Confucian Answer to Titanism,” The Journal of Chinese Philosophy 22 (1995), pp. 129–151.
“Gandhi, Ahimsa, and the Self,” Gandhi Marg 15 (1993), pp. 24–38.
“Foundations and Forms of Life: A Discussion of Gertrude Conway’s Wittgenstein on Foundations,” International Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1992), pp. 119–125.
“Wittgenstein’s Phenomenology Revisited,” Philosophy Today 34:4 (1990), pp. 273–288.
“Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Behaviorism,” Metaphilosophy 13 (1982), pp. 46–64.
Wittgenstein and Phenomenology: A Comparative Study of the Later Wittgenstein, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau–Ponty, SUNY Press, 1981.
“Wittgenstein and Heidegger: A Phenomenology of Forms of Life,” Tijdschrift voor Filosofie (Belgium) 43 (1981), pp. 269–305.
“Wittgenstein and Forms of Life,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 10 (1980), pp. 241–258.
“The Color of Sin/The Color of Skin: Ancient Color Blindness and the Philosophical Origins of Modern Racism,” Journal of Religious Thought 46:1 (Summer–Fall, 1989), pp. 42–52.
“Never Say Never: A Response to Harry P. Reeder's 'Wittgenstein Never Was a Phenomenologist,'" Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 22:1 (January, 1991), pp. 80–83.
”Three Types of Divine Power,” Process Studies 20:4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 221–232.
“On the Deification of Confucius,” Asian Philosophy 1:3 (1993), pp. 43–54.
“The Virtue of Non–Violence: A Buddhist Perspective,” Seikyo Times (February, 1994), pp. 28–36; reprinted in Living Buddhism 6:1(January, 2002, pp. 18–30.
“Hindu Titanism,” Philosophy East & West 45:1 (January, 1995), pp. 73–96.
“Ahimsa, the Self, and Postmodernism,” International Philosophical Quarterly 35:1 (March, 1995), pp. 71–86.