Yi, Jizhang

Jizhang Yi received his PhD in Philosophical Theology from the University of Toronto and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. His research focuses on comparative philosophy, theology, and religious studies, with particular interests in Chan/Zen Buddhism, Humanistic Buddhism, Kierkegaard’s existential philosophy, and the application of Conceptual Metaphor Theory from cognitive linguistics to comparative philosophical and religious inquiry. His scholarship develops Existential Hermeneutics as a philosophical account of transformative self-understanding, examining questions of truth, selfhood, meaning, and ethical-religious transformation across Buddhist and Christian traditions. More recently, he has extended this work to explore the philosophical and ethical implications of Existential Hermeneutics for artificial intelligence. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Buddhist-Christian Studies, and volumes published by Bloomsbury Academic, Springer Nature, and McGill-Queen’s University Press.