Joseph Johnson

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PART-TIME INSTRUCTOR - Asian and Comparative Philosophy Philosophy of Mind

Joseph Johnson received his Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) after completing an M.A. at the University of Wisconsin. His areas of interest are Asian and comparative philosophy and philosophy of mind/language.  While studying comparative philosophy both at the University of Hawaii and in Japan, his dissertation was on Facing Plato’s Problem in Linguistics, where he examined such issues as the reality of psycholinguistic mechanisms and the reducibility of linguistics to biology.  Since then, most of his research has been on comparative models of mind and the issue of groundlessness in Western and Eastern traditions.

Education:

PhD, University of Tsukuba (Japan), 2003

MA, University of Tsukuba (Japan), 1990

MA, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1978

BA, University of Utah, 1975

Research Interests:

Courses regularly taught:

Asian Philosophy

Chinese Philosophy 

Modern Philosophy

Personal & Organizational Ethics