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576Nietzsche’s Thirst For IndiaIdealistic Studies 34 (3): 239-262. 2004.This essay represents a novel contribution to Nietzschean studies by combining an assessment of Friedrich Nietzsche’s challenging uses of “truth” and the “eternal return” with his insights drawn from Indian philosophies. Specifically, drawing on Martin Heidegger’s Nietzsche, I argue that Nietzsche’s critique of a static philosophy of being underpinning conceptual truth is best understood in line with the Theravada Buddhist critique of “self ” and “ego” as transitory. In conclusion, I find that N…Read more
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345Rationality and freedom, by Amartya Sen. Harvard university press 2003Economics and Philosophy 20 (2): 381-389. 2004.
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200Book ReviewsRichard Tuck,. Free Riding.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 223. $35.00 (review)Ethics 119 (1): 211-216. 2008.This review of Richard Tuck's Free Riding conveys Tuck's crucial distinction between the logic of collective action which fails due to the problem of causal negligibility, and free riding, which has been modeled as a Prisoner's Dilemma and involves casually impacting another actor in an adverse manner. Tuck also distinguishes the practice of voting which he argues neither fails due to the worry of causal negligibility or due to free riding; instead it represents a problem of achieving sufficienc…Read more
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Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyResearcher
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophy, Misc |
Other Academic Areas |