Bryan W. Van Norden

Bryan van Norden (PhD, Philosophy, Stanford) is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities and Head of Studies, Yale-NUS College; Chair Professor of Philosophy and International Director, Center for Comparative Philosophy, Wuhan University; and Professor of Philosophy, Vassar College. He is the author of Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto (Columbia, 2017), Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (Hackett, 2011), Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy (Cambridge, 2007); he has also edited and translated A number of titles. I chose him as a reader for his broad interests and frequent publications in popular media (Huffington Post, The Conversation. Aeon, The Stone).