Dr. Slingerland is a Distinguished University Scholar, professor at the Department of Philosophy, and director of the Database of Religious History (DRH). His research and teaching focus on Warring States Chinese thought, religious studies, cognitive linguistics, virtue ethics, evolutionary psychology, digital humanities, and science-humanities integration. Slingerland is the author of several academic monographs and edited volumes, a major translation of the Analects of Confucius, two trade books, and approximately fifty book chapters, reviews, and articles in top academic journals in a wide range of fields.

Edward Slingerland is a philosopher, sinologist, and professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, and Department of East Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he also directs the Religious History Database. His research areas include Chinese pre-Qin philosophy, religious studies, cognitive linguistics, and ethics. His representative works include Effortless Action: Wu Wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China (2003, Chinese translation published in 2020), Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science and the Power of Spontaneity (2014, Chinese translation published in 2018), What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body & Culture (2008), Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism (2019).