Bryan W Van Norden

Bryan W Van Norden is the author of the much-debated book, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto. An expert on Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, Van Norden is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor at Yale-NUS College (Singapore), Chair Professor in the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University (China), and professor of philosophy at Vassar College (USA). Among his other publications are Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (2011) and Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy (2014, co-edited with Justin Tiwald).