Steven BURIK
Associate Professor of Philosophy (Education); Associate Dean (Student Matters & Alumni Affairs); Lee Kong Chian Fellow
Dr Steven Burik is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Singapore Management University. He holds a PhD in comparative philosophy from the National University of Singapore. His research interests are mainly in comparative philosophy, continental philosophy (Heidegger, Derrida), Chinese philosophy (Daoism), and Critical Thinking. He is the author of The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking (SUNY Press), editor of Comparative Philosophy and Method: Contemporary Practices and Future Possibilities, (co-edited with Ralph Weber and Robert Smid, Bloomsbury), which brings together leading scholars thinking about the methodology in comparative philosophy, and has co-authored a textbook in Critical Thinking. Aside from these he has published numerous articles in various journals and books, including Philosophy East and West, Dao: a Journal of Comparative Philosophy and Comparative and Continental Philosophy.
Qualifications
- PhD in Comparative Philosophy, National University of Singapore, 2006
- MA (Philosophy), Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1999
Research Interests
- Continental Philosophy
- Chinese Philosophy
Course(s) Taught in SMU
- Critical Thinking in Real World
- Intro to Classical Chinese Philosophy
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives & Methods