Jan Westerhoff
Jan Christoph Westerhoff is a German philosopher and orientalist with specific interests in
Early life and education
Westerhoff was educated at the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff Gymnasium, a
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS).[3] He completed his second PhD in 2007 with a doctoral thesis titled "Nagarjuna's madhyamaka: A philosophical investigation".[6]
Academic career
He was previously a research fellow in philosophy at the
SOAS
.
Research
He is a specialist in metaphysics and
history of ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His most recent research interests focus on the history of solipsism.[7]
Selected works
Books
- The Non-Existence of the Real World. (Oxford University Press, 2020, 384 pp., ISBN 9780198847915)
- Crushing the Categories: ISBN 9781949163001)
- The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 9780198732662)
- Reality: ISBN 0199594414)
- The Dispeller of Disputes: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
- Twelve Examples of Illusion. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
- (co-authored with The Cowherds) Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 0199751439)
- Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Ontological Categories: Their Nature and Significance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
Journal papers (selection)
- Westerhoff, Jan (2008). "Nāgārjuna's Arguments on Motion Revisited". Journal of Indian Philosophy. 36 (4): 455–479. S2CID 85551781.
- Westerhoff, Jan (2007). "The Madhyamaka Concept of Svabhāva: Ontological and Cognitive Aspects". Asian Philosophy. 17: 17–45. S2CID 143804698.
- Westerhoff, J. (2006). "Nāgārjuna's Catuṣkoṭi". Journal of Indian Philosophy. 34 (4): 367–395. S2CID 169456015.
- Westerhoff, Jan (2005). "Logical Relations between Pictures". Journal of Philosophy. 102 (12): 603–623. S2CID 119028160.
- Westerhoff, Jan (2004). "The Construction of Ontological Categories". Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 82 (4): 595–620. S2CID 170787660.
- Westerhoff, Jan (2003). Erkenntnis. 58 (3): 379–414. )
- Westerhoff, Jan (2003). "Ludwig Benedict Tredes Forgotten Necessary Grammar". Kant-Studien. 94 (3). .
- Westerhoff, Jan (2002). "Defining 'Ontological Category'". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 102 (3): 287–293. .
- Westerhoff, Jan C. (2001). "A World of Signs: Baroque Pansemioticism, the Polyhistor and the Early Modern Wunderkammer". Journal of the History of Ideas. 62 (4): 633–650. S2CID 170210097.
- Westerhoff, Jan C. (1999). "Poeta Calculans: Harsdorffer, Leibniz, and the mathesis universalis". Journal of the History of Ideas. 60 (3): 449–467. S2CID 170774562.
Talks
See also
- Similarities between Pyrrhonism and Buddhism
References
- ^ "Professor Jan Westerhoff". Faculty of Theology and Religion. University of Oxford. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d "CV - J. Westerhoff". Jan Westerhoff. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Prof Jan Westerhoff". Lady Margaret Hall. University of Oxford. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "Dr Jan Christoph Westerhoff". SOAS University of London. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ Westerhoff, Jan Christoph (2003). "An inquiry into the notion of an ontological category". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library Board. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- . Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ Is Reality an Illusion? (Motion picture | Jan Westerhoff). The Institute of Art and Ideas. 10 November 2019.
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