Alan David Fox
Education
- Ph.D. – Temple University
- M.A. – Temple University
- B.A. – Johns Hopkins University
Biography
Alan David Fox, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. He earned his Ph.D. in religious studies from Temple University. His areas of research include Asian and comparative philosophy; comparative religion; and religion and psychology.
Current Work
Daoist Philosophy, a translation of the Dao De Jing, Chinese Buddhism
Sample of Publications
Process Ecology and the “Ideal Dao," reprinted in Environmental Philosophy in the Asian Traditions of Thought, ed. J. Baird Callicott and James McRae, New York: SUNY Press, 2014, pp 197-208.
Zhuangzi's Weiwuwei Epistemology: Seeing Through Dichotomy to Polarity, in Kohn, Livia, ed., New Visions of the Zhuangzi, Three Pines Press, 2015, pp 61-71.
The Practice of Huayan Buddhism, in Chinese Buddhism: Past, Present, and Future, Yilan, Taiwan: Foguang University Center for Buddhist Studies, 2015, pp. 259-285.
A Process Interpretation of Daoist Thought, in Frontiers of Philosophy in China, volume 12, number 1, pp. 26-37, Brill, 2017.
Metaphysics Without Ontology, in David Chai, ed., Dao Companion to Neo-Daoism, Springer Press, pp. 301-321, 2020.
Courses Regularly Taught
| PHIL 204 World Religions |
| PHIL 309, 080 Indian Religion and Philosophy |
| PHIL 310, 080 Chinese Religion and Philosophy |
| PHIL 335 Buddhist Philosophy |
| PHIL 337 Daoist Thought |
| PHIL 465 Senior Seminar |
| PHIL 410 /PSYC 410 Religion and Psychology |
