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20Love and Friendship Across Cultures: Perspectives From East and West (edited book)Springer Singapore. 2021.This collection brings together different philosophical points of view discussing two important aspects of human life, namely love and friendship, within the broad context of comparative philosophy. These points of view differ in terms of their cultural orientations - East or West, ancient or modern; philosophical methodologies - analytical, historical, experimental, or phenomenological, broadly construed; and motivation - explanatory, revisionary, or argumentative. The volume is a comparative t…Read more
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17The Online Self: Externalism, Friendship and GamesSpringer Verlag. 2016.This book investigates the emerging phenomenon of the self as it exists in the online world. It argues for an externalist conception of self and identity, one that does not depend on the continuity of consciousness of the subject. It also offers an analysis of related phenomenon such as online friendship and games based on this analysis. An outstanding feature of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace is that it allows for the user to put forward their “selves” or their identity on…Read more
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15Searle and Buddhism on the Non-SelfComparative Philosophy 8 (1). 2017.In this brief note I continue the discussion that I had with John Searle on the topic of the self and the possibility of continuity of consciousness after death of the body. The gist of Searle's reply to my original paper is that it is logical possible, though extremely unlikely, that consciousness survives destruction of the body. This is a rather startling claim given that Searle famously holds that consciousness is the work of the body. Nonetheless, he claims that such issue is an empirical m…Read more
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13How to Understand the Identity of an Object of Study in Comparative PhilosophyComparative Philosophy 10 (1). 2019.
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13Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia (edited book)Springer Nature Singapore. 2023.This book brings together different intercultural philosophical points of view discussing the philosophical impact of what we call the ‘appropriated’ religions of Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is home to most of the world religions. Buddhism is predominantly practiced in Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Singapore, Laos, and Cambodia; Islam in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei; and Christianity in the Philippines and Timor-Leste. Historical data show, however, that these world religions are imported cu…Read more
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12Spinoza and Buddhism on Death and ImmortalityIn Soraj Hongladarom, Jeremiah Joven Joaquin & Frank J. Hoffman (eds.), Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia, Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 11-23. 2023.There is no evidence that Spinoza knew anything about Buddhism, but his philosophy bears certain similarities with Buddhist philosophy, or at least as shall be argued later. This paper compares and contrasts Spinoza’s thoughts on death and immortality with Buddhist philosophy. According to Spinoza, the death of a human being is a process whereby the body, as a mode of Substance, is modified according to natural law. However, Spinoza’s view on the mind or the soul is interesting. In Book V of the…Read more
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9Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of APSAFE2013 (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2015.This book is a collection of selected papers that were presented at the First International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (APSAFE 2013), which was held at Chulalongkorn University from November 28 - 30, 2013. The papers are interdisciplinary, containing insights into food security and food ethics from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to, philosophy, sociology, law, sociology, economics, as well as the natural sciences. The theme of t…Read more
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9Global Philosophy of Religion and the Perspectives from Southeast AsiaIn Soraj Hongladarom, Jeremiah Joven Joaquin & Frank J. Hoffman (eds.), Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia, Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 1-8. 2023.Global Philosophy of Religion is a constructive approach to the philosophy of religion. It aims to incorporate various religious perspectives to diversify the field’s theoretical and practical resources. Proponents of this approach hope that these diverse resources may aid in the progress of the traditional problems of the field. In this introductory chapter, we discuss how the perspectives from Southeast Asia, particularly those from what we call “appropriated religions,” may help in this endea…Read more
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8Supererogation in BuddhismIn David Heyd (ed.), Handbook of Supererogation, Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 361-372. 2023.Supererogation in Buddhist philosophy is a rather neglected topic. Among the questions to be investigated are: “Is there supererogation in Buddhism?” “Can one explicate the examples of apparently supererogatory acts performed by bodhisattvas and other enlightened beings in terms of supererogation?” “Is there room in Buddhist ethics for acts which are neither obligatory but still meritorious?” The answer that I aim to defend here is that there is a place for supererogation in Buddhism, as exempli…Read more
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7Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate, edited by Aihwa Ong & Nancy N. Chen (review)Genomics, Society and Policy 6 (2): 63-67. 2010.
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6Computing and Philosophy in Asia (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007.This volume is a collection of selected papers presented at the Second Asia-Pacific Computing and Philsosophy Conference, which was held in Bangkok, Thailand in January 2005. The conference was organized by the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University on behalf of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy (www.ia-cap.org). Computing have had a long relationship with philosophy, starting from the problem of how symbols being manipulated in computing be…Read more
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6A Buddhist Theory of PrivacyImprint: Springer. 2016.This book offers a new way to justify privacy based on a theory derived from Buddhist insights. It uses insights obtained from the Buddhist teachings on Non-Self to create an alternative theory of privacy. In doing so, the author first spells out the inherent differences between the Buddhist insights and the beliefs underlying conventional theories of privacy. While Buddhism views the self as existing conventionally through interactions with others, as well as through interrelations with other b…Read more
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3ʻĀrittōtœ̄n nai sangkhom Thai: rūam botkhwām khatsan čhāk kānprachum wichākān ʻĀrittōtœ̄n nai sangkhom Thai" (edited book)Samnakphim Čhulālongkō̜n Mahāwitthayālai. 2019.Collection of articles from a conference on the philosophy of Aristotle in Thai society.
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3Autonomous Vehicles in Drivers’ School: A Non-Western PerspectiveIn Ryan Jenkins, David Cerny & Tomas Hribek (eds.), Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: The Trolley Problem and Beyond, Oxford University Press. 2022.As vehicles become more autonomous, the task of designing guiding systems that make morally acceptable decisions is getting more urgent. It is sometimes assumed that one solution will be acceptable across various cultures. In this paper we argue for the importance of intercultural perspectives; in particular, we explore possible insights derived from Buddhist philosophy, taking avail of the virtue of compassion (karuṇā). We suggest that autonomous vehicles should first learn in supervised situat…Read more
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2Ray Billington, Understanding Eastern Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (1): 3-4. 1999.
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1Big Data, Digital Traces and the Metaphysics of the SelfIn Thomas Powers (ed.), Philosophy and Computing: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, and Ethics, Springer. 2017.
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Introduction: Papers From The Asean-eu Lemlife ProjectEubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 14 (6): 193-194. 2004.
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Asian Bioethics Revisited: What Is It?, And Is There Such A Thing?Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 14 (6): 194-197. 2004.
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Information Divide, Information Flow and Global JusticeInternational Review of Information Ethics 7 77-81. 2007.There is a significant information divide between the countries in the North and those in the South. This is detrimental to economic growth as information feeds into knowledge production. The divide is exacerbated by a series of uneven and unjust flows of information between the North and the South. Two related patterns of the unjust flow are explored, namely the flow of biological resources and information and the flow of rare manuscripts and published materials. I argue that the concept of glo…Read more
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Globalization, Bioethics and the Cultures of Developing CountriesEubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 12 (3): 103-104. 2002.
Pathum Wan, Bangkok, Thailand
Areas of Specialization
Information Ethics |
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Computing and Information |
Buddhism |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
19th Century Philosophy |