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Education

1994 University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), B.A.��
2000 Duke University, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

Yoga and Philosophy
Chinese Yoga and Meditation
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Special Topics: Stoic Philosophy as a Way of Life
Zen, Yoga and The Way
Special Topics: Yoga, Minds and Metaphysics
Special Topics: Meditation, Mindfulness and Minds
Philosophy of Martial Arts
Philosophy of Sex
Special Topics: Philosophy of the Body
Special Topics: Minds, Brains and Metaphysics
Chinese Philosophy
Daoist Philosophy and Religion
Indian and Asian Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy
Ethics
Business Ethics
Contemporary Philosophy
Special Topics: Religion, Science and Philosophy
Theories of Democracy

Career Specialties

Steve Geisz writes about movement, mindfulness and metaphysics. His research focuses on comparative philosophy, philosophy of mind and language and various “outsider” philosophies.

Professional and Community Activities

Steve Geisz is a registered yoga teacher (E-RYT 200, RYT 500, YACEP). He completed his 200-hour yoga teacher training at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, MA, and his 300-hour advanced yoga teacher training at the Lotus Pond Center for Yoga and Health in Tampa.��

He also teaches qigong (i.e., Chinese yoga and meditation) and practices several forms of taijiquan. He is a graduate of the multi-year qigong teacher training program of Ken Cohen and a certified full instructor in the Universal Tao/Healing Tao qigong system of Mantak Chia.

Geisz is the author of A Philosophy of Mindful Movement: Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga, and the Kinesthetic Imagination (Routledge, 2026).

His other publications include “Teaching Texts as Teaching Taiji: Indian and Asian Philosophy on the Model of a Taijiquan Group Class” (Teaching Philosophy 47, no. 3, September 2024), “Qigong, Philosophical Reading, and the Cultivation of Attention: Chinese Contemplative Body Practices and Slow Philosophy” (Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 16, no. 2, May 2022), “Anscombe’s ‘I,’ Zhuangzi’s Pipings of Heaven, and The Self That Plays the Ten Thousand Things: Remarks on Thomas Ming’s ‘Who Does the Sounding?’” (Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 17, no. 4, December 2018), “Traditional Chinese Body Practice and Philosophical Inquiry” (American Philosophical Association Newsletter for Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, 17, no. 2, Spring 2018), “Understanding the Heart-Mind Within the Heart-Mind of the ��è����è (Inward Training)” (Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 15, no. 3, September 2016), “Body Practice and Meditation as Philosophy: Teaching Qigong, Taijiquan, and Yoga in College Courses” (Teaching Philosophy 39, no. 2, June 2016), “Aging, Equality, and Confucian Selves” (in Roger T. Ames and Peter D. Hershock, eds., Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence, University of Hawaii Press, 2015), “Turning Representation Inside Out: An Adverbial Approach to the Metaphysics of Language and Mind” (The Philosophical Forum 40, no. 4, Winter 2009), “Mengzi, Strategic Language, and the Shaping of Behavior” (Philosophy East & West 58, no. 2, April 2008), and “An Indirect Argument for Strategic Voting” (Journal of Applied Philosophy 23, no. 4, November 2006).

Geisz’s popular philosophical work includes a series of writings exploring cross-cutting issues at the nexus of comparative metaphysics, country music, and beverages. These include “Samsara in a Coffee Cup: Self, Suffering, and the Karma of Waking Up” (in Scott F. Parker and Michael W. Austin, eds., Coffee—Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate, Wiley, 2011), “One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Buddhist Theory of No-Self” (in Fritz Allhoff and Marcus Adams, eds., Whiskey & Philosophy, Wiley, 2010) and “The Dao and Duality of Johnny Cash” (in John Huss and David Werther, eds., Johnny Cash and Philosophy: The Burning Ring of Truth, Open Court, 2008).

Geisz has been a disc jockey for a handful of college radio stations, specializing in Americana and alt-country music.

Honors and Awards

Geisz’s article “Teaching Texts as Teaching Taiji: Indian and Asian Philosophy on the Model of a Taijiquan Group Class” (Teaching Philosophy 47, no. 3, September 2024) received the 2026 Lenssen Prize of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT).