-
46Does a Table Have Buddha-Nature?Philosophy East and West 63 (3): 373-386. 2013.I argue against the dialetheist interpretation of Madhyamaka propounded by Garfield and Priest, in part on textual grounds, but also on the grounds that their reading completely misses the rhetorical strategy behind the use of contradictions for soteriological ends in the Indian Buddhist tradition.
-
43How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist MetaphysicsOxford University Press. 2021."This work is designed to introduce some of the more important fruits of Indian Buddhist metaphysical theorizing to philosophers with little or no prior knowledge of classical Indian philosophy. It is widely known among non-specialists that Buddhists deny the existence of a self. Less widely appreciated among philosophers currently working in metaphysics is the fact that the Indian Buddhist tradition contains a wealth of material on a broad assortment of other issues that have also been foci of …Read more
-
43Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects, and Other SubjectsPhilosophical Review 130 (3): 467-471. 2021.
-
43Contradiction in Buddhist ArgumentationArgumentation 22 (1): 125-133. 2008.Certain Buddhist texts contain statements that are prima facie contradictions. The scholarly consensus has been that such statements are meant to serve a rhetorical function that depends on the apparent contradictions being resolvable. But recently it has been claimed that such statements are meant to be taken literally: their authors assert as true statements that are of the form ‘p and not p’. This claim has ramifications for our understanding of the role played by the principle of non-contrad…Read more
-
39Review: The Reality of Altruism: Reconstructing Śāntideva (review)Philosophy East and West 50 (3). 2000.
-
39Born believer?Comparative Philosophy 12 (1). 2021.A Response to Karsten Struhl’s “What Kind of an Illusion is the Illusion of Self”.
-
37Dan Arnold: Brains, Buddhas, and believing: the problem of intentionality in classical buddhist and cognitive-scientific philosophy of mind: Columbia University Press, New York, 2012, xiv + 311 pages, $50.00 (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 74 (2): 237-241. 2013.
-
33Is reductionism expressible?In Mario D'Amato, Jay L. Garfield & Tom J. F. Tillemans (eds.), Pointing at the Moon: Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 57--69. 2009.
-
31Buddhist Non-conceptualism: Building a Smart Border WallPhilosophy East and West 70 (3): 615-637. 2020.Ever since Dignāga drew his bright line between conceptually mediated inference and concept-free perception, there have been efforts to erase it and make cross-border traffic in concepts perfectly legitimate.1 If we understand conceptualization as a mental operation of abstraction that yields knowledge of general, repeatable features or commonalities and facilitates such cognitive operations as categorization, inference, and analogical thought, then we can add Kant to the list of prominent criti…Read more
-
31The Importance of "My" Being Single: A Response to Jiri BenovskyPhilosophy East and West 67 (2): 553-558. 2017.Given how much the issue of the self and diachronic personal identity has been discussed in recent decades, one might wonder why something like Benovsky's pluralist-self view has not already been proposed and critically examined. It does, after all, look promising as a way to negotiate a settlement between the partisans of self and of nonself. For it gives the first party what it says it wants—ontological commitment to selves—while also granting the nonself theorists their core claim that there …Read more
-
24Studies in Buddhist Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2016.This volume brings together nineteen of Mark Siderits's most important essays on Buddhist philosophy. Together they cover a wide range of topics, from metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and ethics, to the specific discussions of the interaction between Buddhist and classical Indian philosophy. Each of the essays is followed by a postscript written by Mark Siderits specifically for this volume, which connect the essays with each other, show thematic interrelations, and brin…Read more
-
23Truth as a Buddhist value: whatever works?Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 1-18. 2023.Buddhism is sometimes said to hold a pragmatic conception of truth, according to which a statement is true just in case it leads to the attainment of one’s goals. Since a true utterance would then be one that is likely to lead to the attainment of the interlocutor’s goals, this would show that the Buddha was not inconsistent when he said seemingly incompatible things on different occasions: to assess the truth of an utterance one must consider the context, which includes the goals and the capaci…Read more
-
23Response to LevineJournal of World Philosophies 1 (1): 128-130. 2016.In this short reply to Levine's critique, I defend the enterprise of 'fusion philosophy.' I agree that the sort of careful scholarly examination of Asian philosophical traditions that is often done under the banner of 'comparative philosophy' is of great importance. But it is a separate question whether those traditions have resources that would help us solve philosophical problems of current interest. This is the question fusion philosophy tries to answer.
-
23The Buddha's Teachings As PhilosophyHackett Publishing Company. 2022.A shorter and less technical treatment of its subject than the author’s acclaimed _Buddhism As Philosophy_ (second edition, Hackett, 2021), Mark Siderits's _The Buddha’s Teachings As Philosophy_ explores three different systems of thought that arose from core claims of the Buddha. By detailing and critically examining key arguments made by the Buddha and developed by later Buddhist philosophers, Siderits investigates the Buddha's teachings as philosophy: a set of claims—in this case, claims abou…Read more
-
21Reason's Traces: Identity and Interpretation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist ThoughtJournal of the American Oriental Society 124 (4): 824. 2004.
-
21Joerg Tuske , Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 436 pp., £76.50 , ISBN 978‐1‐4725‐2953‐4 (review)Dialectica 72 (3): 479-484. 2018.
-
18Reductionism ReduxPhilosophy East and West 72 (2): 562-572. 2022.I must begin by expressing my deep appreciation to Nilanjan Das and P. K. Sen for the care they have clearly taken in their thorough examinations of Empty Persons.1 There is quite a lot going on in the work, and even after the revisions made in preparing the second edition, what I wish to say is not always as clear as it might be. The penetrating questions raised in Das’s and Sen’s reviews are just the sort that any author of a philosophical work would welcome.Before coming to these questions, t…Read more
-
16Relativism, Objectivity and Comparative PhilosophyJournal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 3 1-15. 1998.
-
15The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language ed. by Alessandro GraheliPhilosophy East and West 71 (1): 1-5. 2021.This volume is a noble effort to present the fruits of recent research in classical Indian philosophy of language. It is now well known that Indian philosophers had very important things to say in the areas of metaphysics and epistemology. That they also had interesting insights into the nature and uses of language is not as widely appreciated, and the present work seeks to rectify the situation. It is organized into four topical sections on, respectively, the units of speech, word meanings, sen…Read more
-
9Kemeth K. S. Ch’en, The Chinese Transformation of Buddhism; Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1973; 345 + ix pages; $15.00 (review)Journal of Chinese Philosophy 6 (1): 111-113. 1979.
Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, Korea (Republic of)
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Asian Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Asian Philosophy |