Catherine Prueitt
Cat Prueitt (PhD 2017, Emory University) is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of British Columbia. Her research engages Classical Sanskrit philosophies with a focus on how these traditions contribute to our contemporary understanding of human experience. She works within the Classical Sanskrit pramāṇa framework, which focuses on what and how we can know about reality given our embodied position within an intersubjective world. She finds that the 7th century Buddhist Dharmakīrti’s apoha (exclusion) theory of concept formation, especially as modified by the 10th-11th century Hindu Pratyabhijñā Śaiva tradition, offers compelling insights into fundamental questions surrounding the intersubjective world construction, the nature of agency, and the ethical implications of how we form our worlds.