Alan David Fox
Education
- Ph.D. – Temple University
- M.A.Ìý– Temple University
- B.A.Ìý– Johns Hopkins University
Biography
Alan David Fox, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the 91Ô´´. He earned his Ph.D. in religious studies from Temple University. His areas of research includeÌýAsian and comparative philosophy; comparative religion; and religion and psychology.
Current Work
Daoist Philosophy, a translation of the Dao De Jing, Chinese Buddhism
Sample of Publications
Process Ecology and the “Ideal Dao,"Ìýreprinted inÌýEnvironmental Philosophy in the Asian Traditions of Thought, ed. J. Baird Callicott and James McRae, New York: SUNY Press, 2014, pp 197-208.
Zhuangzi's Weiwuwei Epistemology: Seeing Through Dichotomy to Polarity, in Kohn, Livia, ed.,ÌýNew Visions of the Zhuangzi, Three Pines Press, 2015, pp 61-71.
The Practice of Huayan Buddhism, inÌýChinese Buddhism: Past, Present, and Future, Yilan, Taiwan: Foguang University Center for Buddhist Studies, 2015, pp. 259-285.
A Process Interpretation of Daoist Thought, inÌýFrontiers of Philosophy in China, volume 12, number 1, pp. 26-37, Brill, 2017.
Metaphysics Without Ontology,ÌýinÌýDavid Chai, ed.,ÌýDao Companion to Neo-Daoism,ÌýSpringer Press, pp. 301-321, 2020.​
Courses Regularly Taught
| PHIL 204 World Religions |
| PHIL 309, 080 Indian Religion and Philosophy |
| PHIL 310, 080 Chinese Religion and Philosophy |
| PHIL 335 Buddhist Philosophy |
| PHIL 337ÌýDaoist Thought |
| PHIL 410 /PSYC ​410 Religion and Psychology |