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.

Political Philosophy

My Political Compass (24 April 2019)

On Liberty and Liberalism (03 May 2019)

My Publishing Schedule

Now Published

2020. "Ungarbling Section VI of the Sanskrit Heart Sutra." Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 18: 11-41. http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/issue/view/20/showToc [Affordable subscription required till May 2021].

Back in development
The Problem of Action at a Temporal Distance (on the incoherence of traditional attempts to explain karma)

In Development
Revised Editions of the Prajñāpramitā and Xīnjīng 心經.

The History of the Heart Sutra as Palimpsest.

The Chinese Origins of the Heart Sutra: A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese and Sanskrit Texts.
(A summary of the reception of Nattier 1992, the case for Chinese origins, refuting Indian, origins, putting the Heart Sutra in its proper historical context)

Jayarava - 12 Feb 2020.

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