Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman

Associate Professor and former Chair of Philosophy Dept. (Carleton U.) B.Phil. and D.Phil. in Philosophy, University of Oxford (D.Phil. 2005) Founding executive member of Ethics and Public Affairs doctoral program (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) Research interests: Ethical theory, Comparative Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Ethics, Metaethics, Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Personal Identity, Early Modern Metaphysics Author of “Traces of Consequentialism and Non-Consequentialism in Bodhisattva Ethics” (Philosophy East & West 2013); “Moral Realism and Anti-Realism outside the West” (Comparative Philosophy 2013)

“Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman: Western and Buddhist Philosophical Traditions in Dialogue makes an important contribution to that literature, with a specific focus on the relation between ethics and the metaphysics of selfhood across a range of philosophies. … this volume as a whole constitutes a valuable addition to philosophical exchanges between Western and Buddhist traditions, competently exemplifying how these streams of intellectual endeavour can be brought into productive comparative, and occasionally critical, dialogue.” (Mikel Burley, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, November 12, 2018)

• Part 1. Parallel Debates in Ancient Greek and Ancient Indian Philosophy.- 1. Self and Ethics in Plato and Indian Traditions (Michael Griffin).- 2. Stoicism and Buddhism (Emily McRae).- 3. Classical Scepticism and Nagarjuna (Ethan Mills).- Part 2. Early Modern Philosophical Ethics in Europe: Doubts about Selfhood, Innocence about Atman.- 4. Spinoza and Spinozism: Shadows of Buddhism in Early Modern Philosophy and in Late German Idealism (Gordon Davis).- 5. Hume as a Modern Madhyamika (Jay Garfield).- 6. Kant and Buddhist Ethics (Emer O’Hagan).- Part 3. Modern and Contemporary Philosophers in Dialogue with Buddhist Philosophical Traditions.- 7. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (Douglas Berger).- 8. Heidegger and Buddhism (Sonia Sikka).- 9. William James and Bertrand Russell (Nalini Ramlakhan).- 10. Derek Parfit and Santideva on Altruism (Stephen Harris).- 11. Charles Taylor and Tensions within the Buddhist Tradition (Ashwani Peetush).- 12. Deep Ecology and Buddhist Ethics (Pragati Sahni).p>