ONAP is delighted to welcome Prof Monima Chadha, Professor of Indian Philosophy, as a new core faculty member of ONAP and a new member of the Philosophy Faculty.
Professor Chadha grew up in India. She did her undergraduate studies and Masters in Philosophy at Delhi University in India. She obtained her PhD in Philosophy at Monash University in Australia. After a brief teaching stint in India, she moved back to Monash University as a Lecturer in Philosophy and eventually became a Professor of Philosophy there. She was awarded the inaugural Jack Karp Fellowship at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University in 2022.
She is interested in the philosophy of mind in the classical Indian and contemporary western traditions. Her research addresses issues at the intersection of philosophy of mind, metaphysics and ethics. Much of her recent work is concerned with offering solutions to the challenges faced by Buddhist no-self views. For example, she draws on Abhidharma-Buddhist philosophy of mind and contemporary cognitive science to provide an account of conscious experiences, in particular subjectivity and agency, without positing the existence of subjects and agents. She is also interested in how no self views explain our reactive attitudes and self-conscious emotions.
