James Giles teaches in the Residential Programme and has taught in the International Summer Programmes at ICE. He is also adjunct professor of psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark. He studied at the University of British Columbia and the University of Edinburgh and has taught across the globe including at La Trobe University, Australia; the University of Guam in the Pacific, the University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University, Denmark; Hawaii College of Kansai Gaidai University, Japan; the University of Edinburgh, and in Social Anthropology and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
James has travelled widely through India, China, South-east Asia, and the Pacific. More on his biography can be read here.
The overarching purpose of James' work is to create a philosophical psychology that explains the core features of the human condition. The unifying theme in his work is the fundamental role that human awareness, in its diverse modes, plays in that condition.
James teaches through a combination of lectures and class discussion. His courses are frequently historically based, but always with the primary focus of having students arrive at a philosophical understanding of the subject. A TED talk he gave in London can be seen here. Other courses taught by James for ICE include:
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Philosophy of Science
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Introduction to Existentialist Philosophy
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Freud: Psychologist and Philosopher
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Personality and Communication
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Buddhism and the Self
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The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism
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The Philosophy of Hinduism
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The Thought of Heraclitus
For more information visit www.james-giles.com.
