Welcome to my website. My chief interests at present lie in the area of contemporary science and what it can tell us about the nature of the human. Very significant advances in recent years are opening up new understandings of our human sociality, and my concern lies with reading these advances in the light of the thematisation of the practice of being human as we find it in the major world religions. We need to understand both the micro-level embodied sociality and the macro-level cultural and religious level of strong community. This in turn can tell us much about how human community fails, through conflict and collectivism. It is very exciting work to be engaged in, which brings me into conversation with outstanding scientific minds, and I look forward to contributing to these new human self-understandings in the coming years.
The focus of my work in China, where I hold a research chair, lies in the development of new dialogues between contemporary science and the social and cultural forms of ancient Chinese religions. I also have a strong interest in the dialogue between China and the West and exploring how this can be facilitated in our globalising world through new philosophical understandings of the science of human sociality. In the School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China, Beijing, I teach a course on 'The Western Mind'.
In Western contexts I work on the development of new thinking in Catholicism, and am currently engaged in a project called Creatively Catholic with an emphasis on the social inclusivity of the tradition.
The focus of my work in China, where I hold a research chair, lies in the development of new dialogues between contemporary science and the social and cultural forms of ancient Chinese religions. I also have a strong interest in the dialogue between China and the West and exploring how this can be facilitated in our globalising world through new philosophical understandings of the science of human sociality. In the School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China, Beijing, I teach a course on 'The Western Mind'.
In Western contexts I work on the development of new thinking in Catholicism, and am currently engaged in a project called Creatively Catholic with an emphasis on the social inclusivity of the tradition.
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NEW ARTICLE IN 'CULTURE AND BRAIN'
'NICHE CONSTRUCTION, SOCIAL COGNITION AND LANGUAGE:
HYPOTHESIZING THE HUMAN AS THE PRODUCTION OF PLACE'
'NICHE CONSTRUCTION, SOCIAL COGNITION AND LANGUAGE:
HYPOTHESIZING THE HUMAN AS THE PRODUCTION OF PLACE'
