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Meilin Chinn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, within the College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hawai'i-Manoa (2015). Her research focuses on Chinese Philosophy, Aesthetics, Environmental Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, and Phenomenology. She is currently writing a book exploring music's meaningfulness, including its relationship to truth and spacetime, and conducts interdisciplinary studies on emptiness and nothingness. Chinn will assume the directorship of the Asian Studies Program starting Fall 2025 and serves as Associate Editor of Comparative and Continental Philosophy.
Her work emphasizes expanding philosophy’s cultural and conceptual boundaries. Recent scholarship includes investigations into musical imagery, postcolonial race theory, and environmental ethics. She maintains a scholarly-artistic project on the philosophical void and collaborates across disciplines to explore intersections of art, ethics, and nature.
No specific awards are listed, though her academic contributions are evident through her editorial role and research output. She has no listed advisees, and her professional activities include leadership in Asian Studies and ongoing grant-funded projects in comparative philosophy. Her teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses in Chinese thought, aesthetics, and environmental ethics.
