Prof. Dr. Tran van Doan

Prof. Dr. Tran van Doan
Gastprofessur Sommersemester 2005
Fachbereich systematische Theologie - Theologie
Interkulturell und Studium der Religionen
Universitätsplatz 1, A-5020 Salzburg - Tel.:
+43/662/8044-2650; Fax: +43/662/8044-251
born in 1948 in Vietnam
Nationality: Austria
Status: Married, one daughter.
Study of Sciences, Philosophy, Theology at the
Universities of Paris, Urban, Latran, Innsbruck and
Tubingen.
BA in Phil., 1971 (Urban University)
MA in Phil., 1973 (Latran University)
Dr. en sciences, 1973 (University of Paris)
Dr. Phil., 1975 (Innsbruck University)
Habilitation in Social Sciences (by Prof. Werner Stark,
1978.
Professor of Philosophy in Fujen University 91980-
1985), and since 1985- Full Professor (Ordinarius) in
National Taiwan University.
Visiting Professorship: Universite catholique de
Louvain, 1994; University of Vienna (1996), University
of Peking (1996), The Catholic University of America,
1997, New College / Oxford, 1997, University of Hanoi,
2003, University of Tsinghua, Peking, 2004.
Fellow: Max Planck Institute, and University of
Frankfurt (Starnberg, 1996-1997), Hua Dzong
University of Technology and Sciences, 2004.
Present Positions
- President, Union of Asian Philosophers
- Member of the Board of Directors, Federation
internationale des societes de philosophie (FISP)
- Editor-in-chief, The Asian Journal of Philosophy
Recent Major Publications
1. Reason, Rationality, Reasonableness (Washington,
D.C, 2000)
2. The Poverty of Ideological Education (Washington,
D.C, 2001)
3. Politics and Morality (Taipei, 2000) (Chinese)
4. The Idea of a Viet-Philosophy (Washington, D.C,
2000).
5. Collected Essays on Vietnamese Theology (2003)
(Vietnamese)
6. Collected Essays on Asian Religions and Philosophy
(Washngton, D.C., 2004)
7. Essays on Cultures (Washington, D.C., 2004)

8. Hermeneutics and The Social Sciences (Hanoi,
2004) (Vietnamese).