Roger T. Ames

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Roger T. Ames
Born	(1947-12-12) December 12, 1947 (age 77) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater	University of British Columbia National Taiwan University SOAS University of London
Institutions	University of Hawaii at Manoa Peking University

Roger T. Ames (born 12 December 1947) is a Canadian-born philosopher, translator, and author. He is Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University in Beijing, China, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and a Berggruen Fellow.^[1] He has made significant contributions to the study of Chinese and comparative philosophy, in which he emphasizes the importance of understanding Chinese philosophy on its own terms rather than through the lens of Western philosophy.