Prof Monima Chadha

I did my undergraduate studies at Delhi University in India. I obtained my PhD in Philosophy at Monash University in Australia. After a brief stint in India, I moved back to Monash University as a Lecturer in Philosophy and eventually became a Professor of Philosophy ay Monash. I was awarded the inaugural Jack Karp Fellowship Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University in 2022. I have recently joined the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford as Professor of Indian Philosophy.

Indian Philosophy; Buddhist Philosophy; No-self views. I am interested in the philosophy of mind in the classical Indian and contemporary western traditions. I draw on Abhidharma-Buddhist philosophy and contemporary cognitive science to provide an account of conscious experiences, in particular subjectivity and agency, without positing the existence of subjects and agents.

Selfless Minds Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023

Kirberg, M and Chadha, M (forthcoming) Depersonalization and the Experience of (No-) Self, Journal of Consciousness Studies.

Berryman, K., Chadha M and Nichols S. (2024) “Vows Without a Self”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,108:1, 42-61.

Chadha M. & Nichols S. (2023) “Self-Control without a Self”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 101:4, 936-953

Chadha, M. (2022) “A Buddhist Response to the Quality-Combination Problem for Panpsychism”, The Monist, 105(1), 131–145.

Chadha M. (2021) “Eliminating Selves and Persons” Journal of American Philosophical Association 7(3), 273-294.

Chadha, M. (2021) “Reference, Representation and the Meaning of the First-Person Singular Pronoun,” in Philosophy East and West.71 (1): 38-56.

Chadha, M. (2019). “Reconstructing Memories, Deconstructing the Self” Mind and Language. 34 (1): 121-138