Bret W. Davis is Professor & Higgins Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland, where he teaches courses on Asian, Western, and cross-cultural philosophy, and where he directs The Heart of Zen Meditation Group. In addition to attaining a Ph.D. in philosophy at Vanderbilt University, he has studied and taught in Germany and Japan, While living in Japan for more than a dozen years, he studied Buddhist philosophy at Otani University and Japanese philosophy at Kyoto University while practicing Rinzai Zen at Shōkokuji monastery. Prof. Davis has published more than eighty scholarly articles on Zen Buddhism, the Kyoto School, Heidegger, and …
Bret W. Davis is Professor & Higgins Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland, where he teaches courses on Asian, Western, and cross-cultural philosophy, and where he directs The Heart of Zen Meditation Group. In addition to attaining a Ph.D. in philosophy at Vanderbilt University, he has studied and taught in Germany and Japan, While living in Japan for more than a dozen years, he studied Buddhist philosophy at Otani University and Japanese philosophy at Kyoto University while practicing Rinzai Zen at Shōkokuji monastery. Prof. Davis has published more than eighty scholarly articles on Zen Buddhism, the Kyoto School, Heidegger, and various other topics and figures in continental and cross-cultural philosophy. He has also published eleven books, including the monographs Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit (Northwestern University Press, 2007) and Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2022), the edited volumes Japanese Philosophy in the World (Shōwadō, 2005, in Japanese) and The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2020, 2022), and a translation of Martin Heidegger’s Country Path Conversations (Indiana University Press, 2010, 2016). Prof. Davis is co-editor of two book series, World Philosophies with Indiana University Press and Transcontinental Philosophy with SUNY Press, and serves on the executive committees of Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, International Society of Contemplative Research, Nishida Philosophy Association, Society for World Philosophies, and Collegium Phaenomenologicum.