JAN WESTERHOFF
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SOME LECTURE RECORDINGS

A talk on the fitness-beats-truth theorem given at the conference on Models of Consciousness, Oxford 2023. [link]

2020 Annual lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy  on Solipsism in Ancient Indian Philosophy. [link]

A set of lectures based on "The Non-Existence fo the Real World" from 2019. [link]

A set of five lectures based on "The Golden Age of Buddhist Philosophy in India" from 2019. [link]

Interview on Nāgārjuna for Peter Adamson’s podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps from 2017. [link]

Introductory remarks for the symposium on "The New Madhyamaka", Oxford, 2015. [link]

"What kind of philosophical theory is Madhyamaka?", 2014 Majewski lecture, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. [link]

A contribution to the symposium on "Contemporary Perspectives on Buddhist Ethics", Columbia University, 2011. [link]
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A contribution to "Madhyamaka & Methodology: A Symposium on Buddhist Theory and Method", Smith College, 2010. [link]
  • [This symposium addressed the question of how to read and interpret Buddhist Madhyamaka texts, extending a conversation begun in two seminal articles — one by C. W. “Sandy” Huntington, Jr. and the other by Jay Garfield.]
"Madhyamaka and ontological categories", lecture at the 2009 Shivdasani conference, Somerville College, Oxford. [link]


RATNAKĪRTI READING CLASS

The Sanskrit reading class on Ratnakīrti’s Santānāntaradūṣaṇa took place in Michaelmas 2023. Electronic copies of the relevant files are still available here.


SANSKRIT-TIBETAN READING CLASS

Some useful online resources for the Sanskrit-Tibetan reading class on Candrakīrti's Madhyamakāvatāraclass include:

Tibetan and Sanskrit of Candrakīrti's text at Bibliotheca Polyglotta

Michaël Meyer's cumulative Sanskrit Dictionary [link]

Tibetan Translation Tool [link]

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