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Monima Chadha (Oxford)
Must we Construct Persons?

2024 | 2025

ISSUE NO. 2 | VOLUME CXXV

MONDAY, 13 january 2025

17:30 - 19.15

about

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Monima Chadha is Professor of Indian Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall. Her research interests are in metaphysics and philosophy of mind in classical Indian and contemporary Western traditions. In recent years, she has written a book Selfless Minds (OUP, 2023) and many articles on Buddhist no-self views and their implications for our concepts of subjectivity, agency, responsibility, and ethical life. 

Meeting Address

Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU.

meeting time

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Draft Papers

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Final Papers

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