Roger T. Ames b. 1947

Roger T. Ames is a Canadian philosopher, Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University and emeritus professor at the University of Hawaii, and one of the most influential English-language interpreters of classical Chinese philosophy of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. With his long-time collaborator David Hall he produced the Thinking from the Han trilogy, which read Confucian philosophy through the lens of process and pragmatist thought, and a series of philosophical translations of the Analects, the Daodejing, and the Zhongyong. His Confucian Role Ethics has defended a distinctive Confucian alternative to the deontological and consequentialist frameworks dominant in Anglophone moral philosophy.