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May 2019

May 27, 2019

The ongoing importance of Engaging with Buddhism

Nearly every week I encounter the idea that Buddhism should somehow be kept 'pure' and...

November 2018

November 02, 2018

A 2-year-old solves the trolley problem (and a note on Buddhist ethics)

And horrifies everyone: (and 'solves' definitely isn't meant in the sense of 'resolves') The...

September 2018

September 19, 2018

The psychedelic drug debate: why Buddhist ethics matters

Last month I covered the revived discussion amongst Buddhists in North America about psychedelic drug...

September 03, 2018

A Philosophy of Labor: Seeing the Unseen Forces in our Work Lives

The recently reviewed book, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk...

June 2018

June 21, 2018

Ethics of Shame (and Shamelessness): Buddhist and Western

My friend Carissa Véliz from the University of Oxford has a great review up today...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

Was the Buddha a Philosopher? (Video)

Very few people are trained in both (Western) philosophy and Buddhist studies these days. Those...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

The Nature of Reality: Buddhist Scholar Alan Wallace in dialogue with Physicist Sean Carroll

During my undergraduate studies in philosophy at the University of Montana, I took a 'capstone'...

February 17, 2017

Psychologists test the Dalai Lama’s teaching on Compassion, and it works

Anyone in a relationship knows that it feels good to do something nice for your...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

On Kant, Contempt, and our Buddhist path(s) forward

Karen Stohr, associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and senior research scholar at Georgetown’s...

November 2016

November 04, 2016

Slavoj Žižek would vote for Trump

Žižek claims that if he were an American he would vote for Trump. And, he...

October 2016

October 03, 2016

Atheist engagement with Buddhism: denying (or redefining) awakening

I have long believed that positions, religious or otherwise, can be strengthened or (wisely) abandoned...

October 02, 2016

Humans and Bonobos: Violence and a Thyroid Hormone

Following on something I mentioned in my last post, that the American people (all societies,...

October 01, 2016

Greed and Delusion in Wells Fargo. Or “In Praise of the Ethical Man”

In this current political season, in which both major candidates have given rise to unprecedented...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

“Our Buddhist University and the Role of Intellectualism in our Studies” a Call for Papers

The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Universities (IABS), based in Bangkok, has issued a...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Returning, or “5 meditations on the desert”

A little over a week ago, I packed my bags, spent a night in Missoula,...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Zen Buddhist teacher Dogen: “The Greatest Philosopher You’ve Never Heard Of”

Writing for NPR today, Adam Frank introduces us to Eihei Dōgen. Dōgen was a thirteenth...

May 17, 2016

Getting Buddhist Philosophy (and other non-Western thought) into the academy

Last Wednesday, Jay Garfield (who I wrote about in 2013) and Bryan Van Norden published...

April 2016

April 16, 2016

Buddhist Ethics has a good day: on Philosophy, East and West

Almost 3 years ago exactly, 3 AM Magazine interviewed Jay Garfield, one of the best-known...

April 09, 2016

Universities are facing an “intellectual crisis”

Speaking at the annual conference of the European Universities Association in Galway, Irish President Michael D. Higgins...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Philosophy, for the love of language, and the limits of language

One of the highlights of the recent Mindfulness, MOOCs, and Money in Higher Education conference at...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Buddha in the Classroom: A little Zen for the Workplace

Subtitled: “Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers,” this is a book filled with much more than just...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

Buddhism and Modernity: Conversations at the Edge, all three panels [Video]

Today the Mangalam Research Center posted video of a post-conference seminar following the June 3-7 Mindfulness...

June 11, 2015

The philosopher Kant might have been skeptical of modern Mindfulness

One of the great joys of doing philosophy is drawing the great minds of the...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

Phenomenology as a doorway into Indian Philosophy

The Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology has announced a selection of free articles from past...

May 26, 2015

All Good Intentions: But does Sam Harris have what it takes to be Buddhist?

A guest post by Marek Sullivan: The recent email scuffle between linguistics professor and political...

May 15, 2015

Buddhist mindfulness, morality, and Protestant presumptions

In case you've been living under a rock, mindfulness is all the rage these days....

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Žižek points us to the dark side of Buddhism, again

This week The Guardian published a selection of short essays titled, "I watch therefore I...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

Studying Philosophy or Religion? Two articles you should read and share today

As winter break wraps up and spring semester starts at colleges and universities across the...

January 20, 2015

Does the “arc of the moral universe” bend toward justice?

As we pause on this day to reflect on the life and vision of Rev....

November 2014

November 23, 2014

Superscholar.org introduces an Infographic on Eastern Philosophy

Hmm... I almost put up scare quotes around 'Eastern Philosophy' - but then I thought...

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