Christian Coseru

		CHRISTIAN COSERU Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 Office phone: 843-953 1935 Office facsimile: 843-953 6388 E-mail: coseruc@cofc.edu Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. and by appointment

	Teaching and Research Interests
	Christian Coseru is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston. He earned a B.A and M.A. in Philosophy from The University of Bucharest (1993) and a Ph.D. from The Australian National University (2005). Coseru studied Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy in Calcutta, Varanasi, and Pune (1993-1995), and was a Research Fellow of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, for one year (1995-1996). As the recipient of an Australian National University doctoral research grant Coseru has also conducted extensive research on Buddhist philosophical literature in Paris, Cambridge, and Calcutta (2000-2001). Coseru's interests are fairly broad, ranging from classical Indian and Buddhist philosophy to Hellenistic philosophy, cross-cultural hermeneutics, phenomenology, 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
	Selected Papers "Buddhist Foundationalism and the Phenomenology of Perception," forthcoming in Philosophy East and West "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. Selected Book Reviews Review of David Burton, Buddhism, Knowledge, and Liberation: A Philosophical Study, forthcoming in Sophia, 2008. Review of Simon P. James, Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics, Sophia (April 2008) 47, 1: 75-77. Review of David E. Cooper and Simon P. James, Buddhism, Virtue, and Environment, Sophia (July 2007) 46, 2: 207-209. "A Restricted Interpretation of Dharmakirti's Philosophy," Review of John Dunne, Foundations of Dharmakirti's Philosophy, H-Buddhism Reviews, March 2006.
	Teaching
	SPRING 2008 PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy: Beliefs and Values PHIL 255 - Philosophy of Religion COURSES TAUGHT PHIL 307 - 20th Century Continental Philosophy PHIL 320 - Metaphysics PHIL 298 - Hermeneutics: Interpreting Across Boundaries PHIL 298 - Eastern Philosophy PHIL 255 - Philosophy of Religion PHIL 198 - Philosophies of Asia PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy: Beliefs and Values PHIL 102 - Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality HONS 120 - Colloquium in Western Civilization
	Work in Progress
	Enactive Mental Imagery and the Buddhist Phenomenologyy of Perception An Abhidharma Typology of of Intentionality and Consciousness Buddhist Epistemology Naturalized Epistemic Expressions and the Rhetoric of Reasons
	Other stuff
	Liber Mundi Sanskrit unicode text processing (for Linux and Mac OS X)


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