research areas

Areas of Specialization

  • philosophy of eastern religions
  • phenomenology
  • philosophy of religion

Areas of Competence

  • environmental philosophy
  • contemporary continental philosophy
  • ethics

Additional Areas of Interest

  • scholarship of teaching and learning

  • aesthetics

  • philosophy of time

  • philosophy of woman

dissertation

 

The majority of my current research is focused on my dissertation entitled, An Inquiry into the Phenomenology of Sacred Time in Hinduism.  I expect to defend in either December 2010 or very early in 2010.

 

Please contact me, netty@purdue.edu if you would like to view an abstract or learn more about the project.

 

book reviews

  • Book Review:  Introducing Chinese Religions by Mario Poceski.  China Review International
         16.1 (2010): Will be in the next issue of CRI to be published.
  • Book Review:  Beyond the Daodejing:  The Twofold Mystery in Tang Daoism by Friederike
          Assandri.  China Review International (forthcoming 2010).
  • Book Review:  Readings in Daoist Mysticism by Livia Kohn. China Review International 
         (forthcoming 2010)

papers

While the majority of my current research is focused on the final stages of my dissertation, I also have several papers currently being refined toward possible publication.

  • Kierkegaard and the Purusharthas: a comparative work exploring intriguing parallels between Kierkegaard's movements from aesthetic to divine and the Purusharthas (human purpose, aims of life) in Hinduism.
  • Nishitani and Heidegger: a comparative work on the topic of environment and technology
  • The Experience of Lived Time and Actual Time: addressing the phenomenological experience of time for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In the process of being co-authored with an expert in developmental disabilities.

Copyright Netty Provost 2010