Dr. Derong Chen

Biography

Derong Chen received his Ph.D. in Western philosophy from Wuhan University in 1990 and in Chinese philosophy from the University of Toronto in 2005. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University from 1994 to 1996. He taught philosophy at Sichuan College of Education from 1981 to 1987 and was an associate professor at Sichuan University, where he supervised MA graduate students in the philosophy department from 1990 to 1994. After immigrating to Canada in 1996, he became a full professor and served as the director of the center of comparative studies at Wuhan University from 2006 to 2008. Since 2008, he has been teaching Chinese language and culture at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He has published three books and numerous articles, focusing on philosophical issues from the perspective of language. His notable works include studies on Locke's theory of meaning and the interplay between Chinese and Western philosophies.

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