Edward G. Slingerland
Biographical Information
Edward G. Slingerland is Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Chinese
Thought and Embodied Cognition, Department of Asian Studies, University of British
Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada.Edward Slingerland received a B.A. in Asian Languages
(Chinese), from Stanford, an M.A. in East Asian Languages (classical Chinese),
from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University. His research
specialties and teaching interests include Warring States Chinese thought, cognitive linguistics
and conceptual metaphor theory, evolutionary psychology, cognitive science
and behavioral neuroscience, methodologies for comparative religion and philosophy,
virtue ethics and the classical Chinese language. His most recent monograph, entitled
What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body & Culture (Cambridge University
Press, forthcoming November 2007), argues for the relevance of the natural sciences to the
humanities and presents an outline of what a new, embodied approach to the study of culture
might look like. He has also recently become a cofounder and director of the Centre
for the Study of Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture, which is to be launced at UBC
later this year. His internet homepage is http://www.asia.ubc.ca/index.php?id=5220.. |
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