I received a B.A. from Stanford in Asian Languages (Chinese), an M.A. from UC Berkeley in East Asian Languages (classical Chinese), and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University.
My research specialties and teaching interests include Warring States (5th-3rd c. B.C.E.) Chinese thought, religious studies (comparative religion, cognitive science and evolution of religion), cognitive linguistics (blending and conceptual metaphor theory), ethics (virtue ethics, moral psychology), evolutionary psychology, the relationship between the humanities and the natural sciences, and the classical Chinese language.
I am also a co-founder and co-director of the new Centre for the Study of Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture (HECC) at UBC. Our inaugural conference, "Integrating Science and the Humanities" took place at UBC in September 2008.
In October 2008 I also hosted an International Conference on Daoist Studies.
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