Professor of Department of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University, Special Term Professor of Beijing Normal University; Major research fields: Chinese and Comparative Philosophy, Modern European Philosophy, Philosophy of Causation, Philosophy of Cultivation; Selected works: Confucius: The Man and His Way of Cultivation (2016), Confucius Making the Way Great (2010), Wandering: Brush and Pen in Philosophical Reflection (co-author, 2002).