Phillbert Cheng
Lecturer
Biography
Email: phillbertcheng@zaytuna.edu
Office hours: By appointment
Dr. Phill Cheng is a scholar of ancient and late antique philosophy. His research interests include Aristotelianism, Platonism, and Thomism. At Zaytuna College, he has taught Material Logic, Formal Logic, Philosophy, and Plotinus's Enneads.
Dr. Cheng received his BA in Philosophy from Saint Mary’s College of California in 2005 and his MA in Philosophy from Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in 2008. He earned his PhD in Philosophical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in 2022.
His PhD thesis, titled “Likeness and Unlikeness in Proclus Diodochus and Dionysius the Areopagite,” undertakes a fresh analysis of late Neoplatonic and Dionysian henology in examining how likeness and unlikeness figure within Dionysius’s conception of creatures as finite and composite images of the infinite and simple Creator.
Mr. Cheng is proficient in Latin, Attic Greek, and Late Antique Greek.
Mr. Cheng joined the faculty of Zaytuna College in Fall 2017.
Education
- Graduate Theological Union, PhD, Philosophical Theology, 2022
- Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, MA, Philosophy, 2008
- Saint Mary’s College of California, BA, Philosophy, 2005