External links
- Personal website
- Faculty page, College of Charleston
- PhilPeople profile
- Numata Visiting Professor page at UC Berkeley
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| Education | University of Bucharest (BA) University of Bucharest (MA) Australian National University (PhD) |
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| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy / Cross-cultural philosophy |
| School | Phenomenology,Buddhist philosophy,Philosophy of mind |
| Institutions | College of Charleston Australian National University The Asiatic Society |
| Main interests | consciousness,self-knowledge,perception,cross-cultural philosophy |
Christian Coseru [1] is a Romanian-born American professor of philosophy working at the intersection of phenomenology,Buddhist philosophy,and philosophy of mind. [2] He is a professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston [3] and a Numata Visiting Professor at the University of California,Berkeley. [4] [5] Coseru is the winner of three National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute research grants [6] [7] [8] [9] for advancing the study of consciousness and self-knowledge from a global philosophical perspective (in collaboration with Jay Garfield,Evan Thompson,and Alva Noë). He is editor of the Springer Nature Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures. [10]
Coseru was educated at the Vasile Alecsandri National College (Galați),a Gymnasium in Galați,Romania. He pursued initial philosophy studies at the University of Bucharest,where he obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy,writing his teza de licenta (roughly equivalent to an M.A. thesis) on Plotinus' theory of emanation under the supervision of Gheorghe Vlăduțescu . In the mid-1990s,Coseru spent four and a half years in India doing advanced study in Sanskrit and Indian philosophy under the supervision of Sibajiban Bhattacharyya. [11] He was affiliated with several research institutes,including The Asiatic Society of Calcutta,Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute,De Nobili College,and the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies). [12] Coseru completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the Australian National University under the supervision of Jay L. Garfield and John Powers (academic). His external dissertation examiners were Mark Siderits,Georges Dreyfus,and Purushottama Bilimoria. [13]
Coseru is best known for integrating the ideas of classical Indian Buddhist thinkers (notably Dignāga and Dharmakīrti) with developments in phenomenology (especially Husserl's work on intentionality and Merleau-Ponty's work on perception) and contemporary analytic philosophy of mind. [14] [15] [16] [17] He argues for a phenomenologically informed naturalism [18] [19] that regards the first-person,intentional,and normative dimensions of experience as irreducible. [20] His naturalism treats phenomenology as a mode of inquiry into the structures of lived experience that complements,rather than competes with,the natural sciences. [21]
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