Ph.D., University of Hawai'i-Manoa, May 2015
Meilin Chinn specializes in Chinese Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Environmental Philosophy. Other areas of research and teaching include Buddhist Philosophy and Phenomenology. In her scholarship and teaching, Chinn focuses on work that broadens the cultural and conceptual boundaries of philosophy. She is currently writing a book on the age-old question of how music is meaningful, including how music and sound are sensed, the relationship of music to truth, and musical spacetime. Other projects include Chinese philosophical approaches to nature and environmental ethics, and a taxonomy of philosophical questions. Chinn also maintains a long-running scholarly and artistic investigation into the void, emptiness, and nothing. She will be the director of Asian Studies beginning in Fall 2025 and is the Associate Editor of the journal Comparative and Continental Philosophy.