I grew up in India. I did my undergraduate studies and Masters in Philosophy at Delhi University in India. I obtained my PhD in Philosophy at Monash University in Australia. After a brief teaching stint in India, I moved back to Monash University as a Lecturer in Philosophy and eventually became a Professor of Philosophy there. I was awarded the inaugural Jack Karp Fellowship at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University in 2022. I joined the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford as Professor of Indian Philosophy in April 2024.
Recent publications
Monographs
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Selfless Minds, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
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Papers
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Kirberg, M. & Chadha, M. (forthcoming). 'Depersonalization and the experience of (no-) self, Journal of Consciousness Studies.
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Berryman, K., Chadha, M. & Nichols, S. (2024). 'Vows without a self', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,108(1):42–61.
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Chadha, M. & Nichols S. (2023). 'Self-control without a self', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 101(4):936–953.
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Chadha, M. (2022). 'A Buddhist response to the quality-combination problem for panpsychism', The Monist, 105(1):131–145.
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Chadha, M. (2021). 'Eliminating selves and persons', Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 7(3):273–294.
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Chadha, M. (2021). 'Reference, representation and the meaning of the first-person singular pronoun', Philosophy East and West, 71(1):38–56.
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| Chadha, M. (2019). 'Reconstructing memories, deconstructing the self', Mind and Language, 34(1):121–138. |
| I am interested in the philosophy of mind in the classical Indian and contemporary western traditions. My research addresses issues at the intersection of philosophy of mind, metaphysics and ethics. Much of my recent work is concerned with offering solutions to the challenges faced by Buddhist no-self views. For example, I draw 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. I am also interested in how no self views explain our reactive attitudes and self-conscious emotions. |
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I will be teaching Indian philosophy papers at Oxford. I will also be teaching undergraduates at Lady Margaret Hall.
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