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John A. Tucker, Ph.D. |
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After graduating from Davidson College, with a major in history
(1977), Tucker completed two Master's degrees at the University of Hawai'i,
the first in Asian philosophy (1981) and the second in Asian history (1983). A Japanese Ministry of
Education (Monbusho) scholarship made possible
language study at Osaka gaikokugo daigaku (1983-84), and graduate research in Chinese
philosophy at the Institute for Studies in the Humanities (Jinbun kagaku kenkyujo), Kyoto University (1984-1985). Tucker completed his Ph.D.
at Columbia University (1990), studying Sino-Japanese Confucianism and
Neo-Confucianism primarily under Professors Wm. Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, Irene
Bloom, and Philip Yampolsky. He taught at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville,
Florida (1990-2000). In addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals such as Philosophy
East & West, the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Asian
Philosophy, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Chinese Culture,Sino-Japanese Studies, and Japan Studies
Review, he has published two books: Itō Jinsai's Gomō jigi and the Philosophical Definition of
Early-Modern Japan (Brill, 1998) and Ogyū Sorai's Philosophical
Masterworks: The Bendō
and Benmei
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2006). He is currently working on
two projects tentatively entitled, Confucianism and Skepticism and Yamaga Sokō and
the Invention of Bushidō. |