I am Vietnamese and am currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Philosophy. My research interests include Continental Philosophy, particularly Kant and key figures of 19th- and 20th-century French and German thought (Nietzsche, Deleuze, Foucault, Badiou, Jean-Luc Marion,...), with a focus on Martin Heidegger. I also have a deep engagement with Comparative Philosophy, where I employ a comparative and integrative approach to articulate a wide range of philosophical questions.

For the past seven years, I have been working mainly on Martin Heidegger and his intersection with non-Western philosophical traditions, such as Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. To me, Heidegger is much more of an Eastern thinker at his core. Recently, I have been thinking of proposing a new understanding of metaphysics through an integrated phenomenology of the will, between Heidegger's phenomenology and Yogacara Buddhism. This aims to shed new light on the nature and structure of metaphysics, and also proposes some developments on the issues raised in later Heidegger, especially the question of a new mode of thinking and the overcoming of metaphysics.. My tentative idea is this: Metaphysics, in its nature, is representation, which can be phenomenologically understood as the result and activity within the structure of the will. Therefore, the overcoming of metaphysics must pass through a transformation of the will itself. 

In addition to those concerns, I also have a great interest in Eastern mysticism, Zen, and Spirituality.