K. T. Fann

About the Author

K. T. Fann, now retired, was formerlly Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Atkinson College, York University, Canada. He is the author of Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy (1969)，Pierce’s Theory of Abduction (1970)，Reading ”Dao De Jing” in English (2020), and In Praise of One-night Stand (2021) ; editor of Wittgenstein: The Man and His Philosophy (1967) and Symposium on J. L. Austin (1969); and translator of Laozi’s Dao De Jing into English and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations into Chinese. In 1995 he retired to his ancestral village in Taiwan and turned a one-hectare abandoned farm into a self-sufficient Daoist retreat, where he lives a life of simplicity in harmony with nature and manages a B&B called Taiwan Thumb-up B&B.