Projects
Refereed and Invited Presentations
  • Which Progress Should We Map?
    Contemplative Development Mapping Project, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Barre, MA. January 2012.
  • On the Goodness of Goodwill in the Early Buddhist Dialogues
    Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, D.C. December 2011.
  • Psychological and Soteriological Mechanisms of Mindfulness Meditation (satipaṭṭhāna)
    Society for the Study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, D.C. December 2011.
  • What Feels Right about Selflessness
    With Dr. Willoughby Britton (Brown). Contemplative Studies Initiative, Brown University, Providence, RI. December 2011.
  • Empathy and Insight
    With Dr. Willoughby Britton (Brown). Contemporary Perspectives on Buddhist Ethics, Columbia University, New York. October 2011.
  • Attention and the Moral Sense: Meta-ethical Implications of Masked Emotional Reactions
    37th Annual Meeting, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Montréal, Québec. July 2011.
  • What is a Sniper Missing? Ethical Aspects of Early Buddhist Mindfulness
    Poster presented at the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison, New York. June 2011.
  • 'When you Know for Yourselves': The Establishment of Mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna) as a Means of Moral Discovery
    Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Honolulu, Hawai'i. May 2011.
  • How to Feel Our Obligations: Attention and the Moral Sense
    Tenth Annual East-West Philosopher's Conference, Honolulu, Hawai'i. May 2011.
  • Attention and the Moral Sense: Meta-ethical Implications of Masked Emotional Reactions
    7th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication: Morality and the Cognitive Sciences. Riga, Latvia. May 2011.
  • Attention! ‘Mental pointing’ and somatosensory response
    CUNY Cognitive Science Colloquium. August 2009.
  • The Experience of Things as Things, in Early Buddhist and Very Recent Philosophy of Mind
    University of Hawai‘i Philosophy Colloquium. January 2009.
 
Works in Progress
 
Research on the nature and implications of bodily awareness

  • "Attention and Consciousness in Somatosensation"

  • "The Somatic Machinery of the Moral Sense"

 

Historical studies in ancient philosophy of mind

  • "How Much Happens When Aristotle Awakes? Some consequences of De Somno and De Insomniis for reading the De Anima account of perception"

  • "For Being Here to Be Conceived: Why the Buddha did not deny that there is a person"

  • "Must We Live Through Every Cognition Cognitively? A translation and discussion, in contemporary terms, of Nyāyabindu I.10 and Dharmottaraṭika ad loc."