Marthe A. Chandler

Ph.D. (University of Illinois-Chicago Circle)
Professor of Philosophy
Office: 210 Asbury Hall
Phone: (765) 658-4721
E-mail: chandler@depauw.edu

Classical Chinese Philosophy: Course Outline

" My graduate work was in analytic philosophy, logic and the philosophy of science, but in 1989 I was part of an interdisciplinary group of faculty who designed a seminar for DePauw students on "China and Japan." The seminar included readings from Japanese Buddhism and the Confucian Classics. In 1993 I visited philosophy Departments in China (Beijing, Wuhan and Shanghai) as part of a group of philosophers from the American Philosophical Association. On my sabbatical in 1995/96 I studied with Robert Eno at the Institute for East Asian Studies at Indiana University and attended the NEH Summer Institute on The Chinese Classics in Translations run by Roger Ames and Henry Rosemont at St. Mary's College of Maryland. In summer of 1997 I returned to China on an East West enter China Field Trip. As a member of the Philosophy Department and of the Asian Studies Department at DePauw, I regularly teach a course in Classical Chinese Philosophy. My current work is in comparative philosophy; I have received a research grant from DePauw to work on a paper titled " Philosophical Drama in Meno and Mencius" and a Faculty Fellowship to develop a course in Chinese Aesthetics."