The Dialetheic Theory of Truth In Neo-Platonic Philosophy
2021-2023
Funded by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee [General Research Fund]
From 2021-2023 I completed a research project entitled The Dialetheic Theory of Truth in Neo-Platonism. In this research project, I established a new reading of the history of philosophy that investigates the truth of contradiction in the work in Classical Neo-Platonic Greek philosophy. In a series of articles, I investigated the dialetheic concept of truth in the texts of two Neo-Platonic thinkers: Pseudo-Dionysius, Meister Eckhart, and Nicolas of Cusa and others.
The Autonomy of Mythology in Schelling and Cassirer
2019-2022
Funded by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee [Early Career Grant]
From 2019-2021 I completed a project entitled Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Mythology, which explores the legacy of Schelling in Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms. In particular, this research investigated the tautegorical form of myth in Schelling and Cassirer. I investigated the claims by both Cassirer and Schelling that mythology is an independent cultural form that cannot be understood by reducing it to or modelling it upon any other form of knowledge or culture. This work on Cassirer follows upon my first monograph, which was published in 2014 under the title Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language (2014). My work in Cassirer’s philosophical anthropology integrates recent and contemporary empirical and ethnological research on mythology and religion and tests the claims of Cassirer concerning the autonomous character of mythology against the current research. My inter-disciplinary work on philosophical anthropology has inspired a co-taught course with a CUHK colleague working in ethno-musicology. The research culminated in a book that is forthcoming with the University of Edinburgh Press.
2021-2023
Funded by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee [General Research Fund]
From 2021-2023 I completed a research project entitled The Dialetheic Theory of Truth in Neo-Platonism. In this research project, I established a new reading of the history of philosophy that investigates the truth of contradiction in the work in Classical Neo-Platonic Greek philosophy. In a series of articles, I investigated the dialetheic concept of truth in the texts of two Neo-Platonic thinkers: Pseudo-Dionysius, Meister Eckhart, and Nicolas of Cusa and others.
The Autonomy of Mythology in Schelling and Cassirer
2019-2022
Funded by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee [Early Career Grant]
From 2019-2021 I completed a project entitled Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Mythology, which explores the legacy of Schelling in Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms. In particular, this research investigated the tautegorical form of myth in Schelling and Cassirer. I investigated the claims by both Cassirer and Schelling that mythology is an independent cultural form that cannot be understood by reducing it to or modelling it upon any other form of knowledge or culture. This work on Cassirer follows upon my first monograph, which was published in 2014 under the title Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language (2014). My work in Cassirer’s philosophical anthropology integrates recent and contemporary empirical and ethnological research on mythology and religion and tests the claims of Cassirer concerning the autonomous character of mythology against the current research. My inter-disciplinary work on philosophical anthropology has inspired a co-taught course with a CUHK colleague working in ethno-musicology. The research culminated in a book that is forthcoming with the University of Edinburgh Press.