Davide Andrea Zappulli (龍晟雨)

Religion, Creativity, and East-Asian Philosophy

About me

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. At UBC, I work under the guidance of the three members of my committee: Prof. Catherine Prueitt, Prof. Edward Slingerland, and Prof. Evan Thompson.

Before coming to UBC, I got a Master’s at the University of Oslo (Norway) and a Bachelor’s at the University of Milan (Italy).

You can reach out to me at the following email address: zappulli.davide@gmail.com.

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RESEARCH

  • Philosophy of Religion

    My research in the philosophy of religion is largely focused on developing cross-culturally informed metaphysical models of ultimate reality and its relation with the phenomenal world and the human mind. This research brings me to touch upon a variety of issues, such as the metaphysics of creation and the nature of religious experience, as well as exploring different soteriological views as theories of how we, as agents, should relate to such ultimate reality.

  • East-Asian Philosophy

    My work on East-Asian philosophy encompasses both the Chinese and Japanese traditions. Within those, I have been engaging with a variety of schools and time periods, including Warring States Chinese Daoism, Medieval Japanese Buddhism, and the Kyoto School. My research aims to bring theories and ideas from these traditions to bear on contemporary debates in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and aesthetics.

  • Creativity

    I also research the philosophy of creativity. I think that creativity must fundamentally be a property of processes, and I am interested in the question of whether a single kind of process realizes creative capacities and, if so, to develop an account of the features that such a process must possess. In doing this research, I also engage with much empirical literature on the topic. Moreover, working on creativity also brings me to work on a variety of topics related to it, such as imagination, flow, and dreaming.