Dr Monima Chadha
Ph.D., Monash 1997
Email: Monima.Chadha@monash.edu
Phone: +61 3 990 52989
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
"Self-awareness: Eliminating the myth of the “invisible subject", forthcoming in Philosophy East and West, 2011.
(With Robert Hanna) "Non-Conceptualism and the Problem of Perceptual Self-Knowledge", European Journal of Philosophy, 19:2, 2011, pp.184-223.
"Perceptual Experience and Concepts in Classical Indian Philosophy", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2010.
"An Independent, Empirical Route to Nonconceptual Content", Consciousness and Cognition, 18:2, 2009, pp.439-448.
"Contents of Experience", Sophia, 48:3, 2009.
"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.
"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.
"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.