Comparative Reflections on Persons and Selves

Pavel Stankov is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He holds a BA in History and an MA in Philosophy. His primary research is in metaethics, with additional interests in critical thinking, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. He is working on a dissertation defending reductionist, naturalist ethical realism grounded on insights from the life sciences, Buddhist ethics, and Hellenistic philosophy. Stankov has taught Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, and Deductive and Inductive Logic. Michael Dufresne is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He holds a BA and MA in Philosophy. His research interests include Chinese philosophy, aesthetics, decolonial philosophy, and philosophy of education. His dissertation project analyzes the impacts of coloniality on the philosophical and aesthetic theories of the Qing dynasty scholar Wang Guowei. Dufresne has taught Introduction to Philosophy, Greek Philosophy, and Deductive Logic. He has also published the chapter “The Illusion of Teaching and Learning: Zhuangzi, Wittgenstein, and the Groundlessness of Language” in Cultivation of Self in East Asian Philosophy of Education, edited by Ruyu Hung (2020).