Christian Coseru

College of Charleston, Assistant Professor

I came to Charleston right after completing my doctorate at the Australian National University in 2005. I did my undergraduate work in philosophy at the University of Bucharest, where I also obtained an M.A. in 1993. I spent nearly four and a half years in India in the mid 1990s, pursuing studies in Indian and Buddhist Philosophy.

My research interests are fairly broad, ranging from classical Indian and Buddhist philosophy to phenomenology and consciousness studies. My most recent work focuses on classical Indian and Buddhist theories of perception, the contemporary reception of the Dignāga-Dharmakīrti school of Buddhist epistemology, and the intersections between phenomenology and cognitive science.

http://coseruc.people.cofc.edu/

 

Selected Papers

"Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

"Naturalism and Intentionality: A Buddhist Epistemological Approach," Asian Philosophy, 19/3 (November 2009): 239-264.

"Buddhist Foundationalism and the Phenomenology of Perception," Philosophy East and West, 59:4 (October 2009): 409-439.

"Karma, Rebirth, and Mental Causation," in Charles Prebish, Damien Keown, and Dale S. Wright, Revisioning Karma: the eBook, Journal of Buddhist Ethics Online Books, 2007, pp. 133-154.

"An Essay on the Ascension of the Soul in Neoplatonism," Origins 3 (2003) 156-67.

"Hermeneutics in a Buddhist Perspective," Origins 2002, 1: 145-50.

"The Continuity Between Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism in India," Journal of the Asiatic Society (1996) 37, 2: 48-83.