Guest Lecturers

Speaker Biography:

Philip J. Ivanhoe (Ph.D. Stanford University) is Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Georgetown University. He specializes in the history of East Asian philosophy and religion and its potential for contemporary ethics. Among his publications are: Three Streams: Confucian Reflections on Learning and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea, and Japan, (Oxford, 2016), Confucian Moral Self Cultivation (Hackett Publishing Company, 2000), The Daodejing of Laozi (Hackett Publishing Company, 2003), Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems, (Oxford University Press, 2007) (with Rebecca Walker), Readings in the Lu-Wang School of Neo-Confucianism (Hackett Publishing Company, 2009), The Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng (Stanford University Press, 2009), and Confucian Reflections: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times (Routledge, 2013).