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, 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.

Over the past eight years, my research has focused primarily on Martin Heidegger and his intersections with non-Western philosophical traditions, including but not limited to Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism. To me, Heidegger is, at his core, deeply aligned with Eastern thought. 

Currently, I have been developing a proposal for a new understanding of metaphysics under the title What is Metaphysics?: Reconstructing Metaphysics through an Integrated Phenomenology of the Will. This work aims to shed new light on the nature and structure of metaphysics, departing from the horizons of Heidegger and Yogācāra Buddhism. It brings out a possibility for answering the question concerning metaphysics and its overcoming as the solution for the concealment of Being in the history of Western philosophy. This is the driving force, the backbone, and also the question left open in Heidegger's entire corpus. 

This work continues Heidegger's diagnosis of the expansion of the Will as the accumulation of metaphysics, while also reconstructing it through an integration with Yogācāra Buddhism's phenomenology of consciousness. On this basis, it proposes that metaphysics is primarily not a set of theories as it has been understood since the beginning of Western philosophy, but an existential mode of being -in- the- world. Metaphysics, by its nature, operates through representation (Vorstellung), which can be phenomenologically understood as both the result of and the activity within the structure of the human will. Therefore, metaphysics cannot be overcome by building another metaphysical theory or a new language. Its overcoming, instead, involves a transformation of the will and the relation to language itself. 

This project goes beyond merely addressing the question that so far has not been fully examined in Heidegger scholarship. Rather, it develops a new philosophical framework for understanding the nature of metaphysics and why metaphysical thinking repeatedly reemerges in the history of Western philosophy. 

Beyond these philosophical concerns, I also have a deep interest in Eastern mysticism, Zen, and Spirituality.