Professor

About

  • Role:

    Faculty
  • Position:

    • Professor
    • Chair, Department of Philosophy
  • Concentration:

    • Indian and Buddhist philosophy
    • philosophy of mind
    • metaphysics
  • Department:

    • Philosophy
  • Education:

    • Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, Manoa, 2004
  • Curriculum Vitae:

Biography

MacKenzie specializes in Buddhist philosophy, classical Indian philosophy, and the philosophy of mind, with a special focus on consciousness, self-consciousness, and the self. His articles have appeared in Philosophy East and West, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and Journal of Consciousness Studies, among others. He is the author of Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind (Rowman & Littlefield  2022).

Courses

  • PHIL 170: World Philosophies

  • PHIL 360: Topics in Asian Philosophy

  • PHIL 438: Philosophy of Mind

  • PHIL 463: Seminar in Religious Studies

  • PHIL 500: Seminar in Major Philosophical Texts