Jayarava's Raves: Philosophy

Substance-Structure Dialecticalism

Time for a Change

The Ship of Theseus. FTFY*

Experience and Reality

Continuity & Philosophy

Metaphysics

A Layered Approach to Reality. Part II.2

A Layered Approach to Reality. Part II.1

A Layered Approach to Reality. Part I.

Buddhism and Naturalism

There is No Cause & Effect.

Epistemology

Searle on Consciousness & Implications for Buddhism

Sociology

Components of Social Reality: Social Reality (I).

Institutional Facts & Language: Social Reality (II)

Deontology: Social Reality (III)

Power: Social Reality (IV)

Norms without Conscious Rule Following. Social reality (V)

Morality

The Evolution of Morality. Introduction and Deontology.

The Evolution of Morality. Two Pillars of Morality - Reciprocity

The Evolution of Morality. Two Pillars of Morality - Empathy.

Publishing Schedule

I was interviewed on the Deconstructing Yourself podcast. A wide ranging discussion on Pāḷi texts, the Heart Sutra, pluralism, and a lot more besides.

Now Published

(2018). 'The Buddhas of the Three Times and the Chinese Origins of the Heart Sutra.' Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. 15, 9-27.

In development:

Problems with translating Section VI of the Heart Sutra from Chinese into Sanskrit. (submitted but realised I had made some errors that require major rewrite)

Submitted

The Problem of Action at a Temporal Distance (on the incoherence of traditional attempts to explain karma)
Xuanzang and the Earliest Dated Heart Sutra.

Thanks for reading.
Jayarava - 17 May 2019.

Books by Jayarava

Karma and Rebirth Reconsidered

A thorough reconsideration of the myths of the afterlife (rebirth) and just world (karma) in Buddhism. The book shows that from an evolutionary point of view such myths are understandable, but that Buddhists have never produced a coherent theory of either that can stand scrutiny. Indeed we now know that neither myth is realistic and that there is no afterlife and the universe is not fair. However, as human beings we can live on in memory or leave works, and we can live ethically.

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Talking to the Kālāmas

A new translation of the Kālāma Sutta along with a commentary which explores the meaning of the text, and explodes some myths about it. 34 p. £4.50