Edward Slingerland
Sinologist and philosopher
Edward Slingerland is a Canadian-American sinologist and philosopher who teaches at the University of British Columbia. He wrote the general-audience books Trying Not to Try and Drunk.
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Born 1968 in the United States
About Edward Slingerland
Edward Slingerland is a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he also holds appointments in Psychology and Asian Studies. His university training came from Princeton, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. His research covers early Chinese thought, comparative religion, cognitive science of religion and cognitive linguistics, among other areas. His academic output includes scholarly books and a translation of the Analects of Confucius. For general readers he has written Trying Not to Try, published in 2014, and Drunk, published in 2021.