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Puqun Li BA (ZZU), MA (RUC), MA (Carleton), PhD (Ottawa)
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Dr. Puqun Li views philosophy as a personal struggle in becoming a decent human being, rather than as a list of free-floating theories. His teaching slogan is: "If you can not give an example of what you are talking about, you don't actually know what you are talking about." His areas of specialization and interests are Wittgenstein, Asian Philosophy, and Comparative Philosophy. Publications include A Guide to Asian Philosophy Classics, 2012 Broadview, Canada, and Wittgenstein on Non-significant Propositions, 2010, VDM Verlag, Germany. He enjoys watching figure skating and hockey, and reading Alice Munro's short stories. Dr. Li's also teaches an East and West Comparative Philosophy online course for Athabasca University.
Courses Taught
PHIL 1100 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 1106 Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 1110 Confronting Moral Issues: Introduction to Ethics
PHIL 1145 Critical Thinking
PHIL 1150 Introduction to Formal Logic
PHIL 2107 Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant
PHIL 2115 Asian Philosophy
PHIL 2120 Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 3100 Great Philosophers of the 20th Century
PHIL 4215 Topics in Metaphysics