Elizabeth Tyler

Associate Professor and Department Chair, Philosophy Department, McDaniel College 

Dr. Tyler specializes in East Asian philosophy and 20th century Continental philosophy with a special interest in feminist philosophy, Japanese Buddhism, and psychoanalysis. Her research focuses on relational models of the self and spans topics from Nishida Kitaro’s later work, to a Buddhist perspective on the experience of time in PTSD to the impact social-historical discourses of gender have on female survivors of intimate partner violence. She teaches courses in Buddhist and Asian Philosophy as well as Existentialism and Feminist Philosophy at a small liberal arts college in Maryland.