JAN WESTERHOFF
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PUBLICATIONS

Books 
 
The Non-Existence of the Real World, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020 [more]
 
The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018 [more]

Crushing the Categories. Nagarjuna’s Vaidalyaprakarana, American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Wisdom Publications, 2018 [more]

Mark Siderits: Collected Papers on Buddhist Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016 [more]

Madhyamaka and Yogacara: Rivals or Allies?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015 [with Jay Garfield] [more]

Moonpaths: Ethics and Madhyamaka Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015 [with The Cowherds] [more]
 
Reality. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2011 [more]

Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011 [with The Cowherds] [more]
      
The Dispeller of Disputes: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani, Oxford University Press, 2010 [more]

Twelve Examples of Illusion, Oxford University Press, 2010 [more]
 
Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka. A Philosophical Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2009 [more]

Ontological Categories. Their Nature and Significance, Oxford University Press, 2005 [more]


PAPERS

“Āryadeva’s Treatise on the division of parts”, Mohammed Rustom (ed.): Global Philosophy Sourcebook, Equinox, forthcoming 2024. 

“Goodman, Solipsism, and Immaterialism”, Constructivist Foundations 17:3, 2022, 264-265. [pdf]

Book symposium on The Non-Existence of the Real World, Introduction and Response, Analysis Reviews 82:1, 2022, 99-158. [pdf]

"An argument for ontological nihilism", Inquiry 2021, doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2021.1934268. [pdf]

“Some Suggestions for Future Directions of the Study of Buddhist Philosophy”, American Philosophical Association Newsletter, Fall 2019, 19: 1, 28-30. [pdf]

“Nagarjuna and the Philosophy of Language”, Journal of Indian Philosophy 2019, 47, 779-793. [pdf]

“Some remarks on a problem in Madhyamaka philosophy of language”, Ratio, 2018, 31:4, 415-423. [pdf]

“Metaphysical vertigo” in Timothy Tambassi (ed): Studies in the Ontology of E.J. Lowe, Editiones Scholasticae, Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, 2018, 27-46. [pdf]

“Madhyamaka and modern Western philosophy: a report”, Buddhist Studies Review, 2017, 33:1-2, 281-302. [pdf]

“Buddhism without reincarnation? Examining the prospects of a 'naturalized' Buddhism” in Jake Davis (ed): A Mirror Is For Reflection. Understanding Buddhist Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2017, 146-165. [pdf]

“What it means to live in a virtual world generated by our brain”, Erkenntnis, 2016, 81:3, 507-528. [pdf] 

“On the nihilist interpretation of Madhyamaka”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2016, 44:2, 337-376. [pdf]

“Nāgārjuna's Yogācāra” in Jay Garfield, Jan Westerhoff (eds): Madhyamaka and Yogācāra: Rivals or Allies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, 165-183 [pdf]

 “Ontological Categories and Madhyamaka” in Jessica Frazier (ed.): Categorization in Indian Philosophy: Thinking Inside the Box, Ashgate, Farnham, 2014, 115-132. [pdf]
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"The incompleteness of the world and its consequences", Metaphysica 14, 2013, 79-92. [pdf]

“Acquiring the Notion of a Dependent Designation: Reply to Berger”, Philosophy East and West, 61, 2, 2011, pp 365-367 [with Jay Garfield] [pdf]
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"Costruzioni senza fine? Un problema per il costruttivismo Goodmaniano", Rivista di estetica, 2009, 41:2, 101-107. [pdf] [English version]

"Making sense of verse 29 of Nāgārjuna's Vigrahavyāvartanī" in D'Amato, Garfield, Tillemans (eds): Pointing at the Moon. Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2009, 25-39. [pdf]

"Nāgārjuna's arguments on motion revisited", Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2008, 36:4, 455-480. [pdf]

"The Madhyamaka Concept of svabhāva: Ontological and Cognitive Aspects", Asian Philosophy, 2007, 17:1, 17-45. [pdf]

"Nāgārjuna's catuṣkoṭi", Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2006, 34, 367-395. [pdf]

"Logical Relations between Pictures", Journal of Philosophy, 2005, 102: 12, 603-623. [pdf]

"The Construction of Ontological Categories", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2004 82:4, 595-620. [pdf]

 "A Taxonomy of Composition Operations", Logique & Analyse, 2004, 185-188, 375-393. [pdf]

"Defining Ontological Categories in an Expansion of Belief Dynamics", Logic and Logical Philosophy, 2002, 10, 201-22. [pdf]

"The Underdetermination of Typings", Erkenntnis, 2003, 58:3, 379-414. [pdf]

"Ars Characteristica Kantiana. Ludwig Benedict Trede's Forgotten Necessary Grammar", Kant-Studien, 2003, 94, 3, 333-351. [pdf]

"Defining 'ontological category'", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2002, 102, 3, 287-293. [pdf]

"A World of Signs. Baroque Pansemioticism, the Polyhistor and the Early Modern Wunderkammer.", Journal for the History of Ideas, 62, 4, 2001, 633-650. [pdf]

"Ontologische Notwendigkeit.", Metaphysica, Special Edition 1, 2000, 119-140. [pdf]

"Gödel, Frege, Scholz. The Leibnizian Conception of the characteristica universalis and the Possibility of a Formal Philosophy", Individuation, Sympnoia panta, Harmonia, Emanation. Festgabe für Heinrich Schepers , Nodus: Münster 2000, 61-96. [pdf]

"Polyhistor and Poeta Doctus. Notes on the Baroque Conception of Signs and Significations", Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft , 10, 2000, 91-130. [pdf]

"Poeta calculans: Harsdörffer, Leibniz and the Universal Characteristic", Journal for the History of Ideas, 60, 3, 1999, 449-467. [pdf]

"Poësis Combinatoria. Relations between the Project of the Characteristica Universalis and German Baroque Poetry", Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft , 8, 1998, 209-244. [pdf]


BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Graham Priest: The Fifth Corner of Four. An Essay on Buddhist Metaphysics and the catuṣkoṭi, Mind 22nd August 2019. [pdf]

Review of Amber Carpenter: Indian Buddhist Philosophy, Journal of the Oxford Centre of Buddhist Studies, 6, 2014, 175-178. [pdf]

Review of Tim Button: The Limits of Realism, Mind 124: 493, 2015, 321-327. [pdf]

Review of Christian Coseru: Perceiving Reality. Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy, Mind 122 (488), 1069-1075, 2013 [pdf]

Review of Dan Arnold: Buddhas, Brains, and Believing.The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind, Religions of South Asia 7, 2013. [pdf]

Review of Jonardon Ganeri: The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 29th January 2013. [link]

Review of Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson, Dan Zahavi (eds): Self, No Self? Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, & Indian Traditions, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 90:4, 2012, 812-815. [pdf]

Review of Jonathan Lowe: The Four-Category Ontology, Mind 116, 2007, 759-762. [pdf]

Review of Jaap Maat: Philosophical Languages in the 17th Century: Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz, Mind 115, 2006, 444-447. [pdf]
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ENTRIES IN HANDBOOKS AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

“Categories”, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2018. [pdf]

“Creation in Buddhism”, in Simon Oliver (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Creation, Oxford University Press, 2021, forthcoming. [pdf]

“Nāgārjuna on emptiness: a comprehensive critique of foundationalism”, in Jonardon Ganeri (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016, 93-109. [pdf] 

“Metaphysical Issues in Indian Buddhist Thought” in Steven Emmanuel (ed): Blackwell Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, Blackwell, Oxford, 2016, 129-150. [pdf]

Nāgārjuna", Ed Zalta (ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2010. [link]

"Abhidharma Philosophy", William Edelglass, Jay Garfield (eds): Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2010, 193-204. [pdf]

"Gottlob Frege", Wulff Rehfus (ed.): Handwörterbuch Philosophie , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 2003. [pdf]

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​MISCELLANEA

“Obituary for David Seyfort Ruegg (1931-2021)”, Buddhist Studies Review 39:1, 2022, 3-9. [link]

“Nāgārjuna and Madhyamaka”, Podcast for Wisdom Publications, 2018. [link]
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“Emptiness and no-self: Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka”, 3:AM magazine 2018. [link]

Aparna Sanyal: “The Monks Who Won the Grammy”, 2018 [link]

Interview on Nāgārjuna for Peter Adamson’s podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. [link]

“The Self: The One and Only You”, New Scientist, 2905, 23 February 2013, 34-37. [pdf]

“Is Reality Real?”, Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, series 4, episode 36, Discovery Channel, 17th July 2013. [link]

“Reality: Is Matter Real?”, New Scientist, 2884, 29th September 2012, 35-47. [pdf] 

 






 











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