Philosophy

Christian Coseru

Assistant Professor

Philosophy Department
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424

office: 4 Glebe St.
room 202
tel: (843) 953-1935
fax: (843) 953-6388
e-mail: coseruc@cofc.edu

Christian Coseru is a graduate of The Australian National University (Ph.D. 2005) and The University of Bucharest (B.A., M.A. in Philosophy). His teaching and research interests are fairly broad, ranging from classical Indian and Buddhist philosophy to phenomenology, naturalized epistemology, and consciousness studies. His 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.

Selected Publications:

"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, eds. 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 1 (2002): 145-50.

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