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3The Philosophical Context of Gotama's ThoughtIn Steven M. Emmanuel (ed.), A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.Recent scholarship has begun to shed some light on the social, cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts in and from which the Buddha and Buddhism arose. This chapter discusses some fundamental problems with the practice of Buddhism. It provides an account of Siddhattha Gotama's intellectual biography by analyzing the philosophical context in and from which his thought and teachings emerged. The idea of rebirth and the idea of karma seem to have been among the most basic insights of the “I…Read more
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5How Should We Live? Happiness, Human Flourishing, and the Good Human LifeIn Steven M. Emmanuel (ed.), Philosophy's big questions: comparing Buddhist and Western approaches, Columbia University Press. pp. 23-57. 2021.
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The 'Sensus Communis' and the Unity of Perception According to Saint Thomas AquinasUniversity Microfilms International. 1991.Although some philosophers are still influenced by Hume's atomistic view of sense impressions, most acknowledge that we are aware not merely of isolated disparate sense data, but of concrete individual sensible things, which on the sensible plane are wholes composed of many sensible aspects. One of many philosophical problems faced by philosophers is to explain precisely how these diverse simultaneously presented sensible aspects are objectively and subjectively cognized as belonging to the same…Read more
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23“Re”-Constructing Philosophical Arguments: Getting a Grip on Thomistic Straw MenModern Schoolman 82 (4): 245-251. 2005.
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118An Introduction to Buddhist PhilosophyCambridge University Press. 2008.In this clearly written undergraduate textbook, Stephen Laumakis explains the origin and development of Buddhist ideas and concepts, focusing on the philosophical ideas and arguments presented and defended by selected thinkers and sutras from various traditions. He starts with a sketch of the Buddha and the Dharma, and highlights the origins of Buddhism in India. He then considers specific details of the Dharma with special attention to Buddhist metaphysics and epistemology, and examines the dev…Read more
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8Eastern and Western contributions to «contemplative science»Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 47 93-104. 2011.
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66The Sensus Communis ReconsideredAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82 (3): 429-443. 2008.Although some philosophers accept an atomistic view of sense impressions, most acknowledge that we are aware not merely of isolated disparate sense data, but of concrete sensible wholes. One of many philosophical problems faced by these philosophers, however, is to explain how these distinct simultaneously presented sensible aspects are subjectively and objectively cognized as belonging to the same particular object. The traditional Thomistic solution is the sensus communis. Recently, however, t…Read more
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25Playing to win vs. playing for meaningful victoriesJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 44 (2): 174-182. 2017.John Laumakis has offered a thought-provoking, but ultimately unpersuasive argument in favor of playing to your opponent’s strength instead of playing to their weakness. In the course of this reply, we hope to show that the idea of PTS not only undermines the real goal of athletic competition, but it also rests upon a confusion between matters of morality and the aims of sports, as well as equivocations on the kind of ‘excellence’ one pursues, and the nature of the ‘challenge’ involved in sport.…Read more
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Asian Philosophy |