Marshall D. Willman

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Marshall D. Willman received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, where he studied logic, the philosophies of language and mind, and linguistics. Having lived in China for over eight years, he has published extensively in the area of East-West comparative philosophy, and lectured at several of Asia’s most prestigious universities, including Beijing University, Fudan University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the National University of Singapore. He is currently working on reconstructing and integrating existentialist and evolutionary psychological theories of human nature from a comparative point of view.

Publications

• "Logic and Language in Chinese Philosophy" (forthcoming), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL=
• ​"Ontogenesis and Phylogenesis in the Analysis of Chinese Classifiers: Remarks on Philosophical Method (Dec. 20, 2014), Frontiers of Philosophy in China (Special Edition), YUAN Guiren and HAN Zhen (eds.), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 9 (4), 538-554.
• ​"A Daoist Perspective on Analytical and Phenomenological Methodologies in the Analysis of Intuition" (2013), in Constructive Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches to Philosophy: From the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy, Bo Mou and Richard Tieszen (eds.), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.
• ​"Logical Analysis and Later Mohist Logic: Some Comparative Reflections" (2010), Comparative Philosophy: An International Journal of Constructive Engagement, 1 (1).
• "Illocutionary Force and its Relation to Mood: Comparative Methodology Reconsidered" (2009), Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 8 (4).

Courses Taught at New York Tech

• ICPH 301 Philosophy of Human Nature
• PHIL 110 Introduction to Philosophy
• ICBS 305 Gender Identity
• FCWR 111 Writing I
• FCWR 162 Writing II
• ICLT 300 Literature
• FCIQ 101 Foundations of Inquiry

Contact Info

mwillman@nyit.edu