Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Philosophy, Spring 2025
Christian Coseru is the Spring 2025 Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston. Prof. Coseru specializes in philosophy of mind and cross-cultural philosophy, especially Indian and Buddhist philosophy in dialogue with Western (classical and contemporary) philosophy and cognitive science. He is the author of Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy (OUP 2012), and editor of Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality (Springer 2023)....
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, Fall 2024
Antonello Palumbo studied in China (Peking University), Italy (where he received a Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from the former Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples) and Japan (Kyoto University). From 2005 to 2020 he was first Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in the Religions of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He subsequently was a researcher in the ERC project ‘Open Philology: The Composition of Buddhist Scriptures’ at Leiden University, Institute for Area Studies (2021), Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in East Asian Studies at Yale...