Reports and Dissertations

Research reports

2023 - 'Zen Buddhism, Personalism and the Ethics of Globalisation'. Research Project Grant. Awarding body: National Science and Technology Council, Taipei, Taiwan. Academic host: Professor Luh Jing-Jong, Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Central University, Taipei, Taiwan

2016 - ‘Culture Within Dialogue East-West’.  Millennium Research Fund. Awarding body: National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

2006 - 'The Experience of Meaning along Nishida Kitaro’s Five Axes: Place, Dialectics, Negation, Self-awakening and Love'. Awarding body: The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, London, UK. Academic host: Professor Yasuhiko Sugimura, Graduate School of Letters, Department of Philosophy of Religion, Kyoto University, Japan

2005 - 'Beyond Modern Metaphysics and Postmodern Relativism: The Experience of Meaning in the Philosophies of Nishida Kitaro and Gabriel Marcel (Part 2)'. Awarding body: The British Academy, London, UK. Academic host: Professor Ken'ichi Iwaki, Graduate School of Letters, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Kyoto University, Japan

2005 -'Beyond Modern Metaphysics and Postmodern Relativism: The Experience of Meaning in the Philosophies of Nishida Kitarô and Gabriel Marcel (Part 1)'. Awarding body: The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan. Academic host: Professor Ken'ichi Iwaki, Graduate School of Letters, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Kyoto University, Japan

Research dissertations

2008 - 'The Fundamental of Relation in Cultural Formations: From Western Ethical Phenomenology to the Kyoto School' (28,000 words). Master of Philosophy / Doctor of Philosophy Upgrade. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom

1998 - 'On the Figural in Painting - From Objectifying Approach to Experiencing the Event, from Realism and Subjectivism to Hermeneutical Phenomenology' (117,000 words). Doctor of Philosophy. Faculty of Arts and Society, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

1992 - 'A Phenomenological Perspective on the Modernist/Postmodernist Debate with Particular Reference to the Arts' (21,000 words). Master of Arts. Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, Council for National Academic Awards, United Kingdom