Supporting Faculty
Heesoon Bai, Professor
Faculty of Education
Following Raimondo Panikkar’s lead, I understand philosophy’s task for today’s world to be “to know, to love, and to heal.” I bring this “philosophy of philosophy” with me in my research contributions to a wide variety of fields in the area of education. Since my tenure in 2003, I have been committed to collaborative research and writing, especially involving my students as part of my supervision and mentorship. My most recent collaborative work experiments with a narrative inquiry and re/works one of the most important concepts in my philosophical work: biophilia.
Paul Crowe, Associate Professor
Department of Humanities & Asia-Canada Program
Director-David Lam Centre
My research interests are in Daoist, Buddhist and Literati (“Confucian”) approaches to cultivation. I also publish on the activities and history of contemporary Asian religious groups in Canada and am keenly interested in dialogue between cultures.