(Ms)Wei ZHANG Ph.D. Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33620 Office Phone 813-974-1882; E-mail wzhang5@cas.usf.edu Appointments with the University of South Florida: Associate professor, Department of Philosophy, 2012 - Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, 2001-2012 Director of Graduate Studies, Religious Studies, 2006-2011 Affiliated Faculty in School of Sustainability, USF 2010 the present Recent Research Interest: Philosophy of medicine Classical Chinese medical philosophy Alternative philosophy of traditional science Specialization: Formative Chinese intellectual traditions (Warring States and Han Thinkers) Hermeneutics, phenomenology, comparative philosophy (Heidegger, Gadamer, and Kant in East-West contexts) Medieval Chinese Buddhist philosophy, Buddhism and (post)modern philosophers Education: Ph. D. East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, 1986-1995 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota MA, Classical Chinese Studies Yale University and Central China University (joint program), 1982-1985 BA, Classical Chinese Philosophy, 1978-1982 Central China University, China Awards and Grant Activities: Sabbatical leave award, USF, spring, 2010 Travel grant for Buddhist lecture series in China, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Taiwan Buddhist Association, 2010 Fulbright Research Program in China (semi-finalist), 2008 Summer research grant, Humanity Institute, USF, 2007 Fulbright summer abroad program grant, Malaysian Borneo, 2002 Fulbright summer workshop grant, University of Hawaii, East-West Center, 1997 Post-doctoral scholarship, Ecumenical Institute of Cultural Studies, St. John s University, Minnesota, 1995-1996 Yale-China Fellowship, Yale University and Yale-China Center, New Heaven,1985-1986 Publications: Books: 1.2010. What is Enlightenment -- Can China Answer Kant s Question? The State University of New York Press Reviews: Zhang s work brings a new set of conceptual questions and practical issues and provides new energy to the dialogue on political and cultural modernity. 2. 2006 Heidegger, Rorty and the Eastern Thinkers - A Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Understanding 1
The State University of New York Press The book was reviewed in Phenomenological Psychology (38, 2007); and Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy (No.2 2007), and translated (chapters) into two foreign languages: Chinese and Gujartai. Zhang s admirable job of explaining how Heidegger s hermeneutics is released from the confines of a method of scientific interpretation, her conceptual dialogue with Heidegger helps generate openness to all cultural discourses lead along the way into a clearing (Lichtung) of comparative philosophy. -- Her analysis comes at a most appropriate time. Through her own conceptual dialogue with Heidegger s primary text on hermeneutics, she points us a way of achieving a positive mode of cross-cultural understanding. Phenomenological Psychology 38 (2007) 279-316 *3. Medicine and Cosmology a Critical Study and Selected Translation of the Seven Chapters on Medical Cosmology in the Yellow Emperor s Inner Classic (Book project in progress, the outline and sample chapters are currently under review by the MIT Press) Book chapters: 4. 2013. Cross-Cultural Translations as a Hermeneutic Program, in Translating Religion (a book project sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation s Trans Cooperative Germany) 5. 2012. Emergence of Classical Chinese and Indian Medicine in Brahma and Dao, (contracted with Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, forthcoming) Journal articles: 6. 2012. A Theory of Medical Cosmology Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, The Oxford University Press 7. 2012. Can Cosmological Models Explaining and Forecasting Public Health or Illness? Philosophy East and West, University of Hawaii Press 8. 2010. Hans-Georg Gadamer s Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Medicine ALEA International Journal of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, No. 8 9. 2004. On the Way to a Common Language -- Heidegger s Dialogue with a Japanese Visitor 10. 2004. Walking through the Indigenous Religious Field: a Report from Malaysian Borneo The Virginia Review, Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies, Volume VII 11. 2001. Buddhist Monastic Philosophers (in Chinese) The Companion to Buddhism Beijing University Press, Beijing, China 12. 1998. Reflection of the East-West Philosophical Encounter at the Frist Half of the Twentieth Century (in Chinese) Chinese Intellectuals, New York, New York 2
Book reviews: 13. 2007, On Daoist Ecology, by Le Aiguo (Beijing, Social Sciences Academy Publishing, 2005) 14. 2004, On Confucius, by Ni Peiming (Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 2001) Conference proceedings: 15. 2010, Classical Medicine as an Imperial Science Renming University Press, Beijing, China Conference presentations: International: 1.2012. Globalization and Cross-Cultural Understanding International Sino-American Forum, Guangxi University and American Association of Asian Studies, Guiling, China, May 29 June 3 2. 2012. Translation across the Boundaries University of Munich at Mainz, Germany, June 22-24 3. 2010. Classical Medicine as an Empirical Science The 7 th Annual Conference of Social Science and Religion in China Co-sponsored by Purdue University & Renming University, Beijing, July 26-28 4. 2010. Classical Philosophy and Medicine The University of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Chengdu, Sichuan, China, June 6-10 5. 2008. Hua Yen Buddhist Hermeneutics from the Perspective of Heidegger s Ontological Hermeneutics The XVth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies Emory University, Atlanta, June 23-28 6. 2008, Towards a Comparative Medical Hermeneutics International Association of Asian Studies, Baton Rough, Louisianan, February 11-16 7. 2007. Daoist Alchemical Medicine Hawaii Internal Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii, January 11-14 8. 2004. Overcoming Tradition, Comparing the Modes of Transcendence: Rorty, Heidegger, and a Buddhist philosopher, Fazhang International Conference on Pragmatism, Richard Rorty, and China Eastern Normal University, Shanghai, China, June 15-20 9. 2001. Heidegger and the East-West Dialogue International Society for Universal Dialogue -- the Fourth World Conference, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland National and regional: 10. 2011, Cosmological Models of Classical Medicine American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, March 31-April 2 11. 2011 China s Answer to Kant s Question, Early Modern Conference, Humanity Institute and Philosophy, USF, Feb. 17-18 3
12. 2009, Daoist Cultivation of Dao-Body and Dao-Fetus Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 17-21 13. 2009, Chinese Religions and Self-Healing Culture Confucian Institute Lecture Series, the USF, October 14. 2008, Theoretical Foundation of the TCM Humanities Institute, University of South Florida, September 30 15. 2007, The Yellow Emperor s Medical Philosophy American Association of Asian Studies, Boston, March 16. 2004, Walking Through Indigenous Religious World of Borneo - a Field Report American Association of Asian Studies, South-East Division, Florida State University, Florida, 17. 2000, Emergence of Asian Religions in the American Academy American Academy of Religion, Mid-West Session Minneapolis Teaching: courses taught at USF from 2001 to the present: Undergraduate courses: 1. Reading of Chinese Classics 2. Religion and Medicine in Ancient China 3. Chinese Religious Though 4. Buddhism-- the Truths and Paths 5. Senior Seminar for Religious Studies 6. Reading of Buddhist Texts 7. Field Studies of Hinduism and Buddhism in India 8. Buddhism in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia 9. Buddhism in China, Japan, and Tibet 10.Religions in India Graduate seminars: 11. Classical Chinese Religious Thought 12. Confucian Seminar 13. Daoism and Chinese Medicine 14. Buddhist Ethics 15. Buddhism and Postmodernism 16. Modern Buddhist Philosophy Doctoral dissertation committee: Casey Rentmesster (Philosophy) An Ontological Analysis of Our Environmental Crisis:- Rethinking Humanity s Relation to Nature Through a Heideggerian Lens, Defended, March 2012 Kathleen Schenk (Philosophy) The Art of Suffering Justin B. Wisniewski (Philosophy) 20th Century Thinkers on Time John A. Myers (Philosophy) Marin Heidegger: Development of the Meaning of Being, with Analogous Interpretations of Heraclitus s Logos and Laozi Tao Mater thesis committee: Co-director, Nicholas Byle (Religious Studies) Gadamer and Nagarjuna in Play: Providing a New Anti-objectivist Foundation for Gadamer s Interpretive Pluralism with Nagarjuna s Help, defended, 2010 4
Director, John Keffer (Religious Studies) Finding Confucianism in Scientology a Comparative Analysis, defended, 2009 Co-director, David Nantiquo (Religious Studies), Comparative Religious Ethics, defended 2008 Co-director, Jeffrey Tibbett (Religious Studies) Religious Studies and Globalization, defended, 2007 Study abroad program: Co-director of summer study abroad program in India, USF, 2004 *New courses for the fall 2012 17. Comparative Philosophy and Religion (Graduate) 18. Chinese Philosophy (undergraduate) Service to the University of South Florida: Department Director of Graduate Studies, 2006-2011 Faculty Advisory Committee, 2008 - the present Curriculum Committee, 2008 - the present Five Search Committees for the positions of Islam, South Asia religions, Judaism, Christianity, World Religions College Faculty Council to the Deans, CAS, 2008-2011 Diversity Committee, CAS, 2003 2005 University Steering Committee for School of Global Sustainability, USF 2008 Steering Committee for Confucian Institute, USF and China Partnership, 2007 Planning Committee for Asian Studies Degree Program, CAS, 2006 - present International Task Force Committee, USF, 2005 Professional Service (outside of the USF): a. Referee for the editorial boards of the Oxford University Press, University of Hawaii Press, Blackwell Publishing, and Global Scholarly Publications b. Editor of the year of Journal of Philosophy Study, 2010-2011 c. Platform interpreter for the International Buddhist Lecture Series in China, 2010 d. Co-director of Research Program in Philosophical and Religious Foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan *Following two books and 6 articles were reviewed. 1. Superluminal Conscious Entities Philosophy Study 2.2011, Linguistic Sinologism in Language Philosophy, a Critique of the Controversy over Chinese Language Philosophy East and West 3.2011, The Role of the East in Heidegger s Das Denken Philosophy East and West, Hawaii University Press 4. 2011, Buddhism and Quantum Physics Philosophy Study 5. 2009, Materiality of Language: the Calligraphic Element in Lacan s Writing Philosophy East and West 5
6. 2008, Thinking on the Edge Philosophy East and West 7. 2007 Buddhism Introducing the Buddhist Experience, Donald W. Mitchell, 2nd edition (book) The Oxford University Press 8. 2009, Daoism and Ecology (book) Professional affiliation: American Philosophical Association American Academy of Religion American Association of Asian Studies International Institute of Asian Scholars References: Dr. Roger Ames, professor of philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Dr. Huang Yong, professor of philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Kutztown University, Philadelphia Dr. Roger Ariew, professor of philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa Dr. Danny Jorgensen, professor of sociology of religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa 6
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