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 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 Research Interests: Courses regularly taught: Asian Philosophy Chinese Philosophy Modern Philosophy Personal & Organizational Ethics
