Steve Odin

Steve Odin is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i. He joined the department in 1982 after completing his PhD in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has taught as a visiting professor at Boston University (1989), Tohoku University (1994–95), and the University of Tokyo (2003–04). His research and teaching areas include Japanese philosophy, East–West comparative philosophy, American philosophy, Whitehead’s process metaphysics, phenomenology, existentialism, environmental ethics, and aesthetics. Among his publications are Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism (1982), The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism (1994), Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics (2001), and Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics (2016).