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8Review of KC Chakrabarti, Definition and Induction: A Historical and Comparative Study (review)Metascience 6 (1): 134-138. 1997.
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6To Pee and not to Pee? Could That Be the Question? (Further Reflections of the Dog)In Graham Priest, J. C. Beall & Bradley Armour-Garb (eds.), The Law of Non-Contradiction, Clarendon Press. 2004.
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6Propositional AttitudesIn Lynn Nadel (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan. 2002.
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316. David Foster Wallace as Student: A MemoirIn David Foster Wallace, Steven M. Cahn & Maureen Eckert (eds.), Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, Columbia University Press. pp. 219-222. 2010.
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3Oxford Handbook of World PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2011.This book provides a set of introductions to each of the world's major non-European philosophical traditions. It offers the non-specialist a way into unfamiliar philosophical texts and methods and the opportunity to explore non-European philosophical terrain and to connect their work in one tradition to philosophical ideas or texts from another. Sections on Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, East Asian philosophy, African philosophy, and recent trends in global philosoph…Read more
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3The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, translation and commentaryPhilosophy East and West 49 88-91. 1999.
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3Givenness and Primal ConfusionIn Wilfrid Sellars and Buddhist Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 113-129. 2019.Sellars' critique of the myth of the given can help us understand the epistemology of consciousness in Madhyamaka and Yogacara thought
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3Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (fundamental verses of the middle way): Chapter 24: Examination of the Four Noble TruthsIn Jay Garfield & William Edelgass (eds.), Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings, Oup Usa. pp. 26--34. 2009.
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2Madhyamaka and Classical Greek SkepticismIn Georges Dreyfus, Bronwyn Finnigan, Jay Garfield, Guy Newland, Graham Priest, Mark Siderits, Koji Tanaka, Sonam Thakchoe, Tom Tillemans & Jan Westerhoff (eds.), Moonshadows. Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 115--130. 2011.
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2Review of V Hardcastle, How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science (review)Philosophical Psychology 11 (1): 89-91. 1998.
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2The Madhyamaka Contribution to SkepticismInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 12 (1): 4-26. 2021.This paper examines the work of Nāgārjuna as interpreted by later Madhyamaka tradition, including the Tibetan Buddhist Tsongkhapa (1357–1419). It situates Madhyamaka skepticism in the context of Buddhist philosophy, Indian philosophy more generally, and Western equivalents. Find it broadly akin to Pyrrhonism, it argues that Madhyamaka skepticism still differs from its Greek equivalents in fundamental methodologies. Focusing on key hermeneutical principles like the two truths and those motivating…Read more
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1To Pee and not to Pee? Could That Be the Question?In Graham Priest, J. C. Beall & Bradley Armour-Garb (eds.), The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, Clarendon Press. 2006.
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1A. Raghuramaraju, Philosophy and India: ancestors, outsiders and predecessorsJournal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 32 (3): 419-423. 2015.
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1A. Raghuramaraju, Philosophy and India: ancestors, outsiders and predecessors: New Delhi: Oxford University Press. (2013). pp xi+152. Rs. 495 (review)Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 32 (3): 419-423. 2015.
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1Choosing coercion and subordination—a preliminary moral study of academic lifeIn Sirkku Hellsten, Marjaana Kopperi & Olli Loukola (eds.), Taking the Liberal Challenge Seriously: Essays on Contemporary Liberalism at the Turn of the 21st Century, Ashgate. pp. 305. 1997.
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Just What is Cognitive Science Anyway?Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (4): 1075-1082. 1999.
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Nub phyogs paʼi sems gtsoʼi grub mthaʼ daṅ der rgol ba rnams kyi lugs =Central University of Tibetan Studies. 2011.
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Mmountains are just mountainsIn Mario D'Amato, Jay L. Garfield & Tom J. F. Tillemans (eds.), Pointing at the moon: Buddhism, logic, analytic philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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Belief in psychology. A study in the ontology of mindRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 181 (3): 346-347. 1991.
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Cognitive Science and the Ontology of MindDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1986.This is a critical examination of the ontological and methodological commitments of contemporary cognitive science, and more generally, of the relation between the manifest and scientific images of man-in-the-world. A preliminary characterization is offered of the relationship between these images, and of the nature of intertheoretic reduction in science, followed by an account of the structure of theory, explanation, and account of the psychophysical relation embodied by contemporary cognitive …Read more
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Thinking Beyond Thought: Tsongkhapa and Mipham on the Conceptualized UltimateIn David Gray (ed.), Tsongkhapa: the legacy of Tibet's great philosopher-saint, Wisdom Publications. 2024.
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Between Abhinavagupta and Daya Krishna : Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya on the problem of other mindsIn Elise Coquereau-Saouma & Daniel Raveh (eds.), The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, Routledge. 2023.
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Smith CollegeDepartment of Philosophy
Buddhist Studies
Harvard Divinity SchoolDistinguished Professor
Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Asian Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |