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34ConferralismIn Kathrin Koslicki & Michael J. Raven (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 472-486. 2024.In this article we survey Ásta’s (2008, 2013) conferralist account of essence, which provides a broadly anti-realist picture of essence. We first offer some thoughts on the difference between realist and anti-realist accounts of essence in general. Then we present Ásta’s notion of a conferred property and sketch her conferralist account of essence. Finally, we examine some critical questions conferralism faces.
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2On the role of modal intuition in modal logicBelgrade Philosophical Annual 2014 (27): 167-182. 2014.
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28Abhinavagupta, the hard problem of consciousness, and the moral grounding problem (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 95 (1): 93-101. 2024.
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25Two conceptions of the relation between self and God: The debate between Śaṅkara and RāmānujaIn Ricardo Sousa Silvestre, Alan C. Herbert & Benedikt Paul Göcke (eds.), Vaiṣṇava concepts of god: philosophical perspectives, Routledge. 2023.
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25Logical Pluralism and Paradoxical Assertions in the Philosophy of ReligionPhilosophy Compass 19 (1). 2023.Many authors show how useful logic can be as a tool for building theories that can account for problems in the philosophy of religion, such as paradoxical assertions. As a consequence, one's philosophy of logic is crucial as well, since it determines which logics, from the set of available and constructible logics, one can use to build a theory. In this paper, we present the relatively recent debate between logical pluralism and monism because the positions in this debate determine which logic(s…Read more
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Arthâpatti: An Anglo-Indo-Analytic Attempt at Cross-Cultural Conceptual EngineeringIn Malcolm Keating (ed.), Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. 2020.
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15Considering CertificationPhilosophy East and West 73 (2): 486-498. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Considering CertificationAnand Jayprakash Vaidya (bio)Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology: A Complete and Annotated Translation of the Tattva-cintā-maṇi. Volume 1, Perception. Volume 2, Inference. Translated by Stephen Phillips. London: Bloomsbury.I. IntroductionStephen Phillips' Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology is a masterful translation and commentary on the books originally written by Gaṅgeśa, th…Read more
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24*Intuition* in Classical Indian Philosophy: Laying the Foundation for a Cross-Cultural StudyIn Wuppuluri Shyam & Francisco Antonio Dorio (eds.), The Map and the Territory: Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality, Springer. pp. 35-70. 2018.There are three main questions one can ask about *intuition*. The analytical—phenomenological question is: what is the correct conceptual analysis and phenomenological account of intuition? The empirical-cognitive question is: what is the correct process-wise robust account of *intuition* phenomenon? In this paper we provide an answer to a third question, the cross-cultural question concerning sufficiently similar, yet distinct, uses of *intuition* in classical Indian philosophy. Our aim is to c…Read more
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159Late modern philosophy: essential readings with commentary (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2007.Part of the Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this survey of late modern philosophy focuses on the key texts and philosophers of the period whose beliefs changed the course of western thought.
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35Ancient Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2008.Part of The Blackwell Readings in Philosophy Series, this survey of ancient philosophy explores the scope of ancient philosophy, focusing on the key philosophers and their texts, examining how the foundations of philosophy as we know it were laid.
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18Does Critical Thinking and Logic Education Have a Western Bias? The Case of the Nyāya School of Classical Indian PhilosophyJournal of Philosophy of Education 51 (1): 132-160. 2017.In this paper I develop a cross-cultural critique of contemporary critical thinking education in the United States, the United Kingdom, and those educational systems that adopt critical thinking education from the standard model used in the US and UK. The cross-cultural critique rests on the idea that contemporary critical thinking textbooks completely ignore contributions from non-western sources, such as those found in the African, Arabic, Buddhist, Jain, Mohist and Nyāya philosophical traditi…Read more
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58Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers (review)Philosophy East and West 73 (1): 1-6. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. ChalmersAnand Jayprakash Vaidya (bio)Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy. By David J. Chalmers. New York, NY: W.W Norton & Company, 2022. Pp. xi + 520. Hardcover $22.49, isbn 978-0-393635-80-5.It isn't uncommon to think that virtual worlds, the worlds we engage with in video games, for example, are not real or at least less real than t…Read more
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18A Critical Notice on the Moral Grounding Question in David Chalmers’ Reality+Sophia 62 (1): 195-200. 2023.In this critical discussion, I evaluate David Chalmers’ position on the moral grounding question from his (2022) Reality +. The moral grounding question asks: in virtue of what does an entity x have moral standing? Chalmers argues for the claim that phenomenal consciousness is a necessary condition for moral standing. After a brief introduction to his book, I evaluate his position on the moral grounding question from the perspective of access consciousness as opposed to phenomenal consciousness,…Read more
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Analytic essentialist approaches to the epistemology of modalityIn Ivette Fred Rivera & Jessica Leech (eds.), Being Necessary: Themes of Ontology and Modality from the Work of Bob Hale., Oxford University Press. 2018.
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Arthâpatti: An Anglo-Indo-Analytic Attempt at Cross-Cultural Conceptual EngineeringIn Malcolm Keating (ed.), Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. 2020.
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Intuition and modality : a disjunctive-social account of intuition-based justification in the epistemology of modalityIn Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Modality, Routledge. 2018.
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16On the Possibility оf a Dual-Natured SelfRUDN Journal of Philosophy 26 (2): 285-304. 2022.In this paper I examine compatibilism and incompatibilism about whether the self can be both a subject and an object in the same awareness at the same time. While this is an old debate that many traditions of philosophy have contributed to, my point of departure is the work of A.C. Mukerji who worked on the possibility of self-awareness by articulating, what he called, the paradox of ego-centricity. I also consider Patañjali, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Arindam Chakrabarti on the debate over comp…Read more
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83Analytic Panpsychism and the Metaphysics of Rāmānuja’s Viśiṣṭādvaita VedāntaThe Monist 105 (1): 110-130. 2022.Analytic Panpsychism has been brought into contact with Indian philosophy primarily through an examination of the Advaita Vedānta tradition and the Yogācāra tradition. In this work I explore the relation between Rāmānuja, the 12th century father of the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta tradition, and analytic panpsychism. I argue that Rāmānuja’s philosophy inspires a more world affirming form of cosmopsychism where there are different kinds of reality, rather than one fundamental reality of pure consciousne…Read more
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18Perceptual, Reflective, and Speculative DoubtMidwest Studies in Philosophy 45 77-98. 2021.In this paper I present the distinction between perceptual, reflective, and speculative doubt by engaging with the work of early naiyāyikas. I argue that the definition of the causes of doubt offered by Gautama Akṣapāda in the Nyāya-Sūtra, and commented upon by later naiyāyikas leads to a distinction between perceptual and reflective doubt, but not to a notion of speculative doubt. I then move on to critically assess J.N. Mohanty’s comparison of Descartes’s method of doubt with the Nyāya theory …Read more
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909Essence, Explanation, and ModalityPhilosophy 95 (4): 419-445. 2020.Recently, Kit Fine's (1994) view that modal truths aretrue in virtue of,grounded in, orexplained byessentialist truths has been under attack. In what follows we offer two responses to the wave of criticism against his view. While the first response is pretty straightforward, the second is based on the distinction between, what we call,Reductive Finean EssentialismandNon-Reductive Finean Essentialism. Engaging the work of Bob Hale onNon-Reductive Finean Essentialism, we aim to show that the argum…Read more
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790The epistemology of modality and the problem of modal epistemic frictionSynthese 198 (Suppl 8): 1909-1935. 2021.There are three theories in the epistemology of modality that have received sustained attention over the past 20 years: conceivability-theory, counterfactual-theory, and deduction-theory. In this paper we argue that all three face what we call the problem of modal epistemic friction. One consequence of the problem is that for any of the three accounts to yield modal knowledge, the account must provide an epistemology of essence. We discuss an attempt to fend off the problem within the context of…Read more
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60Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology. The contributors utilize both the newer metaphysics-first and the more traditional epistemology-first approaches to these issues. The chapters on modal epistemology mostly focus on the problem of how we can gain knowledge of possibilities, which have never been actualized, or necessities which are not provable either by logico-mathematical reasoning or by ling…Read more
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45Advaita Vedanta and the Mind Extension Hypothesis: Panpsychism and PerceptionJournal of Consciousness Studies 22 (7-8): 201-225. 2015.In 1998, Clark and Chalmers articulated and defended the extended mind hypothesis. They argued, against the backdrop of functionalism about the mind, and for the specific case of the mental state type belief, that it is possible for a person's mind to extend out-side the boundary of their body. Departing from the framework of Indo-analytic comparative philosophy, we show that the Advaita Vedanta School of classical Indian philosophy, against the backdrop of a specific form of panpsychism, defend…Read more
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55Business ethics (edited book)SAGE Publications. 2005.Business Ethics is a three-volume collection which provides students and researchers with the historically most important of the classic articles in business ethics, as well as the best of the contemporary and trendsetting work in this burgeoning area. The collection will serve as a sourcebook for academics and researchers entering or already established in the area of business ethics. The editors bring together a breadth of articles across business ethics, with an orientation that is diverse as…Read more
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18Business Cases in Ethical Focus (edited book)Broadview Press. 2019._Business Cases in Ethical Focus_ is a new collection of in-depth case studies from around the world, covering all major areas of business ethics. Thirty-six cases are included, with a broad range of topics such as the ethics of entrepreneurship and finance, the challenges that diversity raises for business, and the moral issues involved in selling cannabis. The cases are provocative yet sufficiently complex to convey the difficulty of moral dilemmas and the potential for reasonable disagreement…Read more
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San Jose State UniversityDepartment of PhilosophyAssociate Professor, Director of The Center for Comparative Philosophy
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD, 2005
San Jose, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |