•  1226
    Introduction to Nakamura Yūjirō and his Work
    Social Imaginaries 1 (1): 71-82. 2015.
    In Social Imaginaries, vol. 1, nr. 1 (Spring 2015) due out in May 2015.
  •  47
    Praxis of the Middle: Self and No-Self in Early Buddhism
    International Philosophical Quarterly 45 (4): 517-535. 2005.
    This paper considers the controversy surrounding the Buddhist doctrine of “no-self” (anattā, anātman), and especially the question of whether the Buddha himself meant by it unequivocally the ontological denial of the self. The emergence of this doctrine is connected with the Buddha’s attempt to forge a “middle way” that avoids the extreme views of “eternalism” in regards to the soul and “annihilationism” of the soul at bodily death. By looking at the earliest works of the Pāli canon, three of th…Read more
  •  630
    Anontology and the Issue of Being and Nothing in Nishida Kitarō
    In JeeLoo Liu Douglas L. Berger (ed.), Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, . pp. 263-283. 2014.
    This chapter will explicate what Nishida means by “nothing” (mu, 無), as well as “being” (yū, 有), through an exposition of his concept of the “place of nothing” (mu no basho). We do so through an investigation of his exposition of “the place of nothing” vis-àvis the self, the world, and God, as it shows up in his epistemology, metaphysics, theology and religious ethics during the various periods of his oeuvre – in other words, his understanding of nothingness that he takes to be the root of the s…Read more
  •  508
    "The Logic of Place" and Common Sense
    with Yūjirō Nakamura
    Social Imaginaries 1 (1): 71-82. 2015.
    The essay is a written version of a talk Nakamura Yūjirō gave at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris in 1983. In the talk Nakamura connects the issue of common sense in his own work to that of place in Nishida Kitarō and the creative imagination in Miki Kiyoshi. He presents this connection between the notions of common sense, imagination, and place as constituting one important thread in contemporary Japanese philosophy. He begins by discussing the significance of place (basho) …Read more
  •  4034
    Social Imaginaries in Debate
    with Suzi Adams, Jeremy Smith, Natalie Doyle, and Paul Blokker
    Social Imaginaries 1 (1): 15-52. 2015.
    A collaborative article by the Editorial Collective of Social Imaginaries. Investigations into social imaginaries have burgeoned in recent years. From ‘the capitalist imaginary’ to the ‘democratic imaginary’, from the ‘ecological imaginary’ to ‘the global imaginary’ – and beyond – the social imaginaries field has expanded across disciplines and beyond the academy. The recent debates on social imaginaries and potential new imaginaries reveal a recognisable field and paradigm-in-the-making. We arg…Read more