Currently teaching at a small liberal arts college, I consider myself as a generalist --although my general teaching orientation is more toward the so-called analytical tradition. During my nine-year university /college teaching career in the states, I have offered more than fifteen different philosophy courses at different levels. Statement of Teaching Philosophy

Teaching Positions

(see Curriculum Vitae)

Current Offerings at Juniata College

• PL 103 Life, Death, and Meaning: an introduction to philosophy course through exploring the meaning of life and death. See course syllabus.

• IC 240 God, Evolution and Culture: a team-taught general education course that provides a thorough discussion of the creation-evolution debate and its cultural implications, see course syllabus.
  
  
• PL 106 Introduction to Ethics: introductory course applying classical moral theories to examine some moral issues in debate today, see course syllabus.
  
  
• PL 115 Human Nature: introductory course on several classical and contemporary theories of human nature, such as Christianity, Confucianism, Marx, existentialism, evolutionary biology and psychology, and sociobiology, see course syllabus.
  
  
• PL 101 Introduction to Philosophy: introductory course with focus on classical philosophical problems such as the meaning of life, free will, reality, the problem of evil, personal identity, and theory of knowledge, see course syllabus.
  
  
• PL 208 / MA 208 Symbolic Logic: computer-assisted course with focus on symbolization, truth trees, and derivation, see course syllabus, study guide [Note: this electronic version of the guide dated 2001 is outdated. A hardcopy of the new version for the fall of 2003 including many corrections is available at the Juniata bookstore) 
  
  
• PL 245 / CA 246 Chinese Philosophy: upper-division seminar course on Confucianism and Taoism, see course syllabus.
  
  
• PL 260 / CA 260 Introduction to Philosophy of Science: up-division course on general methodology--such as the ontological and epistemological status of scientific theories, scientific explanation, evaluation of scientific theories, and scientific realism--and philosophical issues in biology, see course syllabus.
  
  
• PL 305 / CA 305 Modern Philosophy: the origin of the modern mind  up-division course on Descartes, British empiricists, and Kant, see course syllabus.
  
  
• PL 304 Existentialism: up-division course on the thoughts of existentialists Camus, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre, see course syllabus.

Courses Offered Elsewhere

• Modernity, Knowledge and the Self: a team-taught general education course focusing on the issues of culture and modernity, taught in Juniata College in 2000.
  
  
• Philosophy of Language: seminar course on central issues in contemporary philosophy of language (meaning, reference, propositional attitudes, and speech acts), taught in Trinity College, see course syllabus.
  
  
• Theory of Knowledge: lecture course surveying some classical and contemporary treatments of the central issues in knowledge, taught in Trinity College, see course syllabus.
  
  
• Metaphysics: upper-division seminar course with focus on personal identity, causation, and universals, taught in Trinity College, see course syllabus.
  
  
• Cognitive Science Lab: philosophical lab designed for Cognitive Science and Mind and Brain courses, taught in Trinity College.
  
  
• Critical Thinking: introductory course on informal logic with focus on the analysis of language and fallacies, taught in University Of Connecticut, see course syllabus.
  
  
• Introduction to Logic: computer-assisted introductory course on formal logic, including Aristotelian logic, propositional logic, and beginning of predicate logic, taught in University Of Connecticut, see course syllabus.
  
  
• Philosophical Classics: historical introduction to philosophy with readings from Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant, taught in University of Connecticut, see course syllabus.
  
  
• Marxist Philosophy: on Marxist historical materialism and dialectical materialism, taught in Huazhong University of Science & Technology (in Chinese), see a prepared English version of the course proposal.
  
  
• Contemporary Western Philosophy: survey course on 20th century analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, taught in Huazhong University of Science & Technology (in Chinese).
  
  
• Introduction to Geophysics, taught in Xian College of Geology (in Chinese).

Courses Under Consideration For Future Development

• PL 200s: Philosophy of Love and Sex
• PL 300s: Philosophy of Linguistic Communication
  
• PL 300s: Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, see course proposal.