Roger Ames
Professor Emeritus (1978–2016)
Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University, a Berggruen Fellow, and former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i. He is former editor of Philosophy East & West and founding editor of China Review International. Ames has authored several interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture: Thinking Through Confucius (1987),Anticipating China (1995), Thinking From the Han (1998), and Democracy of the Dead (1999) (all with D.L. Hall), and most recently Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary (2011). His publications also include translations of Chinese classics: Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare (1993); Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare (1996) (with D.C. Lau); the Confucian Analects (1998) and the Classic of Family Reverence:TheXiaojing (2009) (both with H. Rosemont), Focusing the Familiar: TheZhongyong (2001), and TheDaodejing (with D.L. Hall) (2003). Almost all of his publications are now available in Chinese translation, including his philosophical translations of Chinese canonical texts. He has most recently been engaged in compiling the new Blackwell Sourcebook of Classical Chinese Philosophy, and in writing articles promoting a conversation between American pragmatism and Confucianism.
ARINDAM CHAKRABARTI
Emeritus and Inaugural Lenney Distinguished Professor (1997-2023)
Arindam Chakrabarti earned a D.Phil from Oxford University. Philosophy of language and logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and Indian philosophy are his major areas of specialization. He has been a Visiting Professor at Institute of Advanced Studies in Edinburgh, UK, the Sanskrit University in Tirupati, India, at Trinity College Cambridge, and at the National Institute of Advanced Study, Bangalore, India. In his teaching and research Professor Chakrabarti has been trying to combine analytic, classical Indian (especially Nyāya and Kashmir Shaivism) and continental philosophies. Besides numerous papers in journals and anthologies, his major publications include his book on negative existentials and fictional discourse Denying Existence, an introduction to 20th century Western epistemology in Sanskrit, and five books in Bangla, the latest on the philosophy of food and clothing. His co-edited volumes include Knowing from Words (with B.K.Matilal), Universals, Concepts and Qualities (with P.F. Strawson), Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism (with Mark Siderits and Tom Tillemans), and Mahabharata Now (with Sibaji Bandyopadhyay). The Eastern Philosophy of Consciousness and the Humanities Project (EPOCH Project) with its focus areas on imagination, concepts and emotion, has recently taken off under his direction.
Graham Parkes
Professor Emeritus (1979–2008)
Graham Parkes taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz before joining the Department as an assistant professor in 1979. During his time in Hawai’i he edited Heidegger and Asian Thought (1987) and Nietzsche and Asian Thought (1991), and authored the generally ignored underground classic Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche’s Psychology (1994). He also published several translations with commentary: The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism by Nishitani Keiji (1990), Heidegger’s Hidden Sources: East-Asian Influences on His Work by Reinhard May (1996), Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden by François Berthier (2000), and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra (2005). He is currently Professorial Research Fellow in philosophy at the University of Vienna, and his latest book, How to Think about the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living, will be published by Bloomsbury at the end of 2020.
Mary Tiles
Professor Emerita (1989–2009)
Mary Tiles joined the Department in 1989. She holds a doctorate from the University of Bristol and a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford. She taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and at Swarthmore College before coming to Hawaii. One of her books is on the French philosopher of science, Gaston Bachelard; two others deal with aspects of the philosophy of mathematics; one co-authored book is on epistemology and another on technology and culture. Prof. Tiles retired in 2009.
