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Jan Christoph Westerhoff is a philosopher and orientalist with specific interests in metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

Early life and education

Westerhoff was was educated at the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff Gymnasium, a Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, Germany.[1] He studied philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1999.[1][2]

He studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS).

Academic career

He was previously a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the City University of New York, a Seminar Associate at Columbia University, a Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College and a Junior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. At present he is a University Lecturer in Religious Ethics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and a Research Associate at SOAS.

Research

He is a specialist in metaphysics and Indo-Tibetan philosophy. His research interests also include the history of ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Selected works

Books

  • Reality. A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 0199594414)
  • Twelve Examples of Illusion. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
  • The Dispeller of Disputes. Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
  • Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • Ontological Categories. Their Nature and Significance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
  • (co-authored with The Cowherds) Moonshadows. Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 0199751439)

Journal papers (selection)

Talks

References

  1. ^ a b "CV - J. Westerhoff". Jan Westerhoff. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Prof Jan Westerhoff". Lady Margaret Hall. University of Oxford. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
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