**Bret W. Davis *is Professor & Higgins Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. In addition to attaining a Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University, he studied and taught for more than a dozen years at Kyoto University and elsewhere in Japan. He has published widely, in Japanese...

**Bret W. Davis *is Professor & Higgins Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. In addition to attaining a Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University, he studied and taught for more than a dozen years at Kyoto University and elsewhere in Japan. He has published widely, in Japanese as well as in English, on Zen Buddhism, the Kyoto School, and various topics in continental and cross-cultural philosophy. His books include Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism * (Oxford University Press, 2022).