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Aaron Stalnaker is a Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington, with an affiliate appointment at the Hamilton Lugar School. His academic work bridges Eastern and Western philosophical traditions through rigorous comparative analysis.
He earned his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2001, establishing a foundation for interdisciplinary scholarship spanning religious ethics and cross-cultural philosophy.
Stalnaker's research centers on comparative religious ethics, examining Christian thought and ethics alongside Chinese religious traditions. He investigates self-cultivation practices, spiritual exercises, and conceptions of the self through Confucian (particularly Xunzi) and Augustinian frameworks. His scholarship reveals deep structural parallels in moral formation across cultural boundaries while addressing challenges in comparative methodology.
His publications demonstrate sustained engagement with human nature debates and ethical category formation, particularly in journal articles exploring cross-cultural ethical comparison frameworks. The seminal 2006 monograph establishes spiritual exercises as a unifying lens for Confucian and Christian ethical development.
Stalnaker teaches specialized courses including Religion and Virtue Ethics, Self-Cultivation and Spiritual Exercises, Introduction to Chinese Thought, and Seminar on Zhuangzi, emphasizing primary text analysis and comparative methodology.
