Desire, Action, and Moral Motivation in the Philosopher's Stone

Parimal G. Patil (Harvard University)

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Parimal Patil is currently Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy at Harvard University, where he has been teaching since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2002. His primary academic interests are in the history of philosophy in India. Although his philosophical interests are quite broad, he has focused on Buddhist philosophy in India, the Old and New Epistemologists, and Indian traditions of physicalism and skepticism. He also has long-standing interests in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy of religion.