His area of specialty is ethics and practical reasoning, especially character/virtue-based, with history of philosophy, especially ancient, philosophy of science, especially regarding time, teaching philosophy & ethics, non-Western philosophy, and American pragmatism & distincly process philosophy being other key concentrations. Aristotle, Shankara, Whitehead and Zhuangzi are chief influences on his thought. He came to philosophical study through his informal, but consulting and immersive study of world literary znd religious texts, communities and practices, initially to balance with his yen for the mystical traditions' practices. Though for…
His area of specialty is ethics and practical reasoning, especially character/virtue-based, with history of philosophy, especially ancient, philosophy of science, especially regarding time, teaching philosophy & ethics, non-Western philosophy, and American pragmatism & distincly process philosophy being other key concentrations. Aristotle, Shankara, Whitehead and Zhuangzi are chief influences on his thought. He came to philosophical study through his informal, but consulting and immersive study of world literary znd religious texts, communities and practices, initially to balance with his yen for the mystical traditions' practices. Though formally schooled in both tge analytic and continental, and antecedent camps, with heterodox Western and Chinese, Indian and other so-called "nonwestern" (world) traditions besides, the typical labels don't readily adhere.
He tends to frame discourse as a progressive preservative: historically, but with respect, not reverence with continuity tuned by change. Getting and letting un-, re- and ad-dressing the true and the false, the right and the wrong, the present and the absent. And he's suspicious of the unpresented hybrid teleology he expects, yet confident that he is only nearly completely and bewilderingly lost. He's a bit old school: less about knowledge than wisdom; not so much like a research university philosopher, but a county one - perhaps more Socratic than professorial; phronesis with, not after, episteme & sophia; more about engaging with than settling on how to live (well) meanedly.