Dr Monima Chadha
Ph.D., Monash 1997
Email: Monima.Chadha@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 990 52989
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Academic Background
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Monash University, October 1997.
- M. Phil, Philosophy, Delhi University, March 1993.
- M A, Philosophy, Delhi University, March 1991.
- BA (Honours), Delhi University, March 1989.
Career Highlights
- Senior Lecturer, Monash University, 2007 -
- Lecturer, Monash University, 2000 - 2006.
- Lecturer, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. 1997-1999.
Research Interests
Philosophy of Language and Mind, Metaphysics.
Publications
"Embodiment and the Special Character of Self-Knowledge", International Conference on Self-Knowledge and Agency, January 2007, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. Forthcoming, peer reviewed and accepted for publication in Conference Proceedings February 2007.
"Contents of Experience: Nyaya, Descartes and Peacocke", forthcoming in Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion, accepted October 2005.
"No Speech, Never Mind!", Philosophical Psychology, 20:5, October 2007, pp.641-657.
(With Nick Trakakais) "Karma and the Problem of Evil: a response to Kaufman", Philosophy East and West, 57:4, October 2007, pp.533-556.
"Yet another attempt to salvage Pristine Perceptions", Philosophy East and West, 56:2, April 2006, pp. 333-343.
"Perceiving Particulars: A Reply to Mark Siderits", Philosophy East and West, 54:3, July 2004, pp. 382-9. This paper occurs in the discussion of issues in Indian philosophy of perception with three other leading Indian philosophers in the United States: Arindam Chakrabarti, University of Hawai’i, Stephen H. Phillips University of Texas at Austin, and Mark Siderits, Illinois State University.
"Thinking Beings", Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Consciousness, Jadavpur University Press and Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pty. Ltd., Delhi, 2003.
"Do Theoretical Primitives Exist" in Basic Objects: Case Studies in Theoretical Primitives, edited by Monima Chadha and A.K. Raina, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Press, Simla, India, 2002.
Basic Objects: Case Studies in Theoretical Primitives, edited by Monima Chadha and A.K. Raina, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Press, Simla, India, 2002.
"Perceptual Cognition: A Nyaya-Kantian Approach" in Philosophy East and West July 2001.
"Are theoretical primitives basic objects?", forthcoming in Basic Objects: Case Studies in Theoretical Primitives. · Science and Tradition, edited by A.K. Raina, B.N. Patnaik and Monima Chadha, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Press, Simla, India. 2000.
Topics in Indian Philosophy, study guide for PHL2850/3850 Indian Philosophy, Monash University, Australia 1998.
Book Review
Anita Avramides: "Other Minds" in Philosophical Quarterly, October, 2003.
Papers in Progress
"Beyond Fineness of Grain: Non-conceptual Content and the Demonstrative Strategy", La Trobe University Staff Seminar, August 2007.
"There is a Problem about Nonconceptual Content", Monash University Staff Seminar, Monash University, Australia, 2006.
"Non-Conceptual Content, Demonstrative Perception, and Embodiment". Revised and resubmitted to Philosophical Psychology.
"Self-Knowledge and Embodiment". (Under review.)
"The Real Distinction between Conceptual and Non-conceptual Content". (In preparation.)
Current Research
Nonconceptual content of experiences.