研究テーマ

Logic and Metaphysics in Zen Buddhism

My main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. My current research focuses on Asian philosophy and in particular on metaphysics and logic in Zen Buddhism. I compare the views on emptiness and true contradictions in the works of the Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and the Japanese Zen master Dogen. The topic of emptiness relates to recent debates on fundamentality in Western metaphysics and the topic of true contradictions relates to contemporary debates on dialetheism in Western logic. I am fascinated with the places where Eastern and Western philosophy meet.