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Jay Goulding

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Department of Equity Studies

Associate Professor

Office: 310 Atkinson Building
Phone: 416 736 2100 Ext: 22334
Email: jay@yorku.ca

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Specializes in both Chinese and Japanese philosophy, and hermeneutic phenomenology. He teaches four undergraduate courses, HREQ 3575 6.0 Popular Culture and Human Rights, East and West, HREQ 3963 3.0 Language, Linguistic Rights and Human Rights, HREQ 3120 3.0 Human Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and HREQ 4651 3.0 Chinese Rights and Virtues. He also teaches two grad courses SPTH 6194 3.0 Existential Phenomenology: East Asian Influences, and HUMA/SPTH 6231 3.0/6184 3.0 Frankfurt and Freiburg: East/West Dialogues for Social and Political Thought, and Humanities.

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Working on strengthening the field of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy through cross-cultural analyses of ancient civilizations. Specializes in both Chinese and Japanese philosophy, and hermeneutic phenomenology. He teaches four undergraduate courses, HREQ 3575 6.0 Popular Culture and Human Rights, East and West, HREQ 3963 3.0 Language, Linguistic Rights and Human Rights, HREQ 3120 3.0 Human Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and HREQ 4651 3.0 Chinese Rights and Virtues. He also teaches two grad courses SPTH 6194 3.0 Existential Phenomenology: East Asian Influences, and HUMA/SPTH 6231 3.0/6184 3.0 Frankfurt and Freiburg: East/West Dialogues for Social and Political Thought, and Humanities.

Degrees

PhD Sociology, York University
MA Sociology, York University
BA Sociology, McMaster University

Research Interests

Philosophy , Classics, Wang Bi’s 王弼 reconstruction of Laozi’s 老子 Daodejing 道德經, Cheng Chung-ying’s 成中英 ontocosmology and Chinese philosophy, Hwa Yol Jung’s Daoist phenomenology,, Heidegger, Schelling and Daoism, Heidegger’s engagement with Chinese and Japanese philosophy, Motoori Norinaga’s 本居宣長 understanding of Chushingura 忠臣藏 (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)