Christian Coseru

Christian Coseru is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston, and Spring 2025 Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He works in the fields of philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and cross-cultural philosophy, especially Indian and Buddhist philosophy in dialogue with Western (classical and contemporary) philosophy and cognitive science. Some of his most recent work focuses on questions about the persistence of subjectivity in non-ordinary and pathological states of consciousness, mental causation, and classical and contemporary accounts of the nature and scope of self-knowledge. 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) and Is Subjective Consciousness Possible (special issues of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Imprint Academic 2024). He is now completing work on a book entitled Moments of Consciousness (under contract with OUP). His research has been supported by grants from the Australian Research Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.