Faculty
Wei Zhang
Professor
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BIO
Dr. Zhang earned a Ph.D. from University of Minnesota, 1995. Her doctoral training consists of twentieth century continental philosophy, East-West Comparative Thought and East Asian Studies. Prior to Minnesota, she received her graduate training in classical Chinese language and texts from Chinese institutions. Her publications on comparative thought include two books: Heidegger, Rorty and Eastern Thinkers, Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Understanding (SUNY, 2006) and What is Enlightenment, Can China Answer Kant鈥檚 Question? (SUNY, 2010), and a number of articles, 鈥楾ranslating Dao, Cross-Cultural Translation as Hermeneutic Program of Edification鈥� (Rutledge 2015), 鈥楬eidegger鈥檚 Appropriation of Dao鈥� (Blackwell 2016), and 鈥極n the Way to a Common language, Heidegger鈥檚 Dialogue with a Japanese Visitor鈥� (Global Scholar Publications 2004).
Dr. Zhang鈥檚 recent research interest in continental philosophy of medicine (Heidegger, Gadamer and Foucault) has led to the publication of a long essay: 鈥楪adamer鈥檚 Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Medicine鈥� (ALEA International Journal of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, 2010). She is currently working on such projects as 鈥楬eidegger鈥檚 Dasein Psychotherapy鈥� and 鈥楩oucault鈥檚 Discourses and Archeology of Medicine.鈥�
Dr. Zhang鈥檚 research in classical Chinese textual traditions accumulated into a number of publications: 鈥楥ould Cosmological Models Explain and Forecast Public Health and Weather Afflicted Ailments鈥� (Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2015)? 鈥楾he Emergence of Classical Medicine in Ancient China and India鈥� (Roman & Littlefield, 2014), as well as a forthcoming article, 鈥楢 Theory of Medical Cosmology of Qi-Energetic鈥� (EASTM 鈥楨ast Asian Science, Technology and Medicine,鈥� Germany, 2016). Her translation of the first Chinese canonical medical treatises is now under the consideration of Columbia University Press.
In the last two years, her course offering ranges from 鈥楤uddhist Philosophy,鈥� 鈥業ntro to Chinese Philosophy,鈥� and 鈥楳edicine and Science in Ancient China,鈥� to the graduate seminar, 鈥楨ast-West Comparative Philosophy and Religion,鈥� 鈥楥onfucian Seminar,鈥� and 鈥楥ontinental Philosophy of Medicine.鈥� In the past decade, she offered a number of courses for Religious Studies that include 鈥楳odern Buddhist Thought,鈥� 鈥楤uddhism and Postmodernism鈥� and 鈥楥hinese Religious Thought.鈥�