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39Reference, Representation, and the Meaning of the First-Person Singular PronounPhilosophy East and West 71 (1): 38-56. 2021.ARRAY
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37This presentation was delivered at the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project's 2015 Interdisciplinary Moral Forum, held at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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35Experiential Unity without a Self: The Case of Synchronic SynthesisAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (4): 631-647. 2021.ABSTRACT The manifest fact of experiential unity—namely, that a single experience often seems to be composed of multiple features and multiple objects—was lodged as a key objection to the Buddhist no-self view by Nyāya philosophers in the classical Indian tradition. We revisit the Nyāya-Buddhist debate on this issue. The early Nyāya experiential unity arguments depend on diachronic unification of experiences in memory, but later Nyāya philosophers explicitly widened the scope to incorporate new …Read more
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25Vows without a selfPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 108 (1): 42-61. 2024.Vows play a central role in Buddhist thought and practice. Monastics are obliged to know and conform to hundreds of vows. Although it is widely recognized that vows are important for guiding practitioners on the path to enlightenment, we argue that they have another overlooked but equally crucial role to play. A second function of the vows, we argue, is to facilitate group harmony and cohesion to ensure the perpetuation of the dhamma and the saṅgha. However, the prominence of vows in the Buddhis…Read more
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23Reflections on Human Inquiry: Science, Philosophy, and Common LifeAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (1): 209-209. 2021..
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19How to Strawson a Buddhist-BuddhaghosaJournal of World Philosophies 4 (1): 173-176. 2019.This review details Jonardon Ganeri’s laudable attempt to move Buddhist philosophy further into the center of contemporary philosophical debates about self, personhood, agency, action, perception, attention, and kinds of mental content. This book is a must read for any contemporary philosopher interested in these debates. My only concern is that Ganeri is reading too much of P.F. Strawson into Buddhghosa’s philosophy.
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19No-Selves and PersonsPhilosophy East and West 69 (4): 1120-1125. 2019.Jonardon Ganeri has written an impressive book that is a must-read for anyone interested in cross-cultural philosophy. Attention, Not Self moves Buddhist philosophy further into the center of contemporary philosophical debates about self, personhood, agency, action, perception, attention, and the kinds of mental content. The book is focused on work attributed to a single philosopher, the fifth-century Theravāda monk Buddhaghosa. However, this book is much more than an exegesis of Buddhaghosa's w…Read more
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17Eliminating Selves, Reducing PersonsIn Christian Coseru (ed.), Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality: Essays in Honor of Mark Siderits, Springer. pp. 105-119. 2023.Mark Siderits has been one of the sharpest, clearest philosophers working on Buddhism in the last several decades. His work has also been strikingly wide-ranging. In this chapter, we will focus on two themes in his work that we find particularly interesting. First, Siderits makes a strong case that Abhidharma Buddhists promote mereological nihilism – the view that only simple entities are ultimately real, and aggregates (like a chariot or a heap) are at best useful fictions. Mereological nihilis…Read more
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15Reflections on Human Inquiry: Science, Philosophy, and Common LifeAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (1): 209-209. 2021.
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13Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's MetaphysicsOxford University Press. 2023.Self is central to our ordinary understanding of the mind and ourselves. The fifth-century Abhidharma Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu presents a radical no-self metaphysics in his Abhidharmakośa-Bhāṣya. Selfless Minds offers a new reading of this no-self view as defending not only eliminativism about self but also about persons, and illusionism about the sense of self and all kinds of self-representation. This radical no-self thesis presents several challenges for Abhidharma Buddhist philosophy …Read more
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11Science and tradition (edited book)Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2000.Contributed articles.
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6Religion and NeuroscienceIn Kasper Lippert‐Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee & David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.This chapter considers two issues that have gained currency in contemporary philosophy because of the recent surge of liberal naturalist attitude that endeavours to place self, mind, consciousness and religious belief back into nature. The first issue, at the intersection of philosophy of religion and cognitive science, concerns the ubiquity and transmission of cross‐cultural religious belief despite being condemned by sceptics as an evolutionary costly negative social force. The second issue, a…Read more
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4Basic objects: case studies in theoretical primitives (edited book)Inter-University Centre, Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2001.This Book Contains Nine Cases In Theoretic Primitives From National And International Experts. The Book Presents Intellectual Panorama Of Highest Metaphysical And Scientific Nature To The Scholarly World.
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Two Tables, Images, and TruthIn Jay Garfield (ed.), Wilfrid Sellars and Buddhist Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 32-47. 2019.The relations between Sellars' two 'images' of man-in-the-world and the Ahidharma doctrine of two truths
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