Davide Andrea Zappulli- Master of Philosophy
- PhD Student at University of British Columbia
Davide Andrea Zappulli
- Master of Philosophy
- PhD Student at University of British Columbia
Currently working on questions concerning the metaphysical status of consciousness by taking a cross-cultural approach.
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I am mainly interested in questions regarding the fundamental nature and structure of reality, which leads me to do work in various areas of metaphysics and the philosophy of consciousness. In dealing with those questions, I take a cross-cultural approach, drawing ideas, arguments, and insights from both Western and Eastern philosophical traditions. I also work in the philosophy of religion.
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The notion of maximal greatness is arguably part of the very concept of God: something greater than God is not even possible. But how should we understand this notion? The aim of this paper is to provide a Śaivist answer to this question by analyzing the form of theism advocated in the Pratyabhijñā tradition. First, I extract a model of divine grea...
My claim in this article is that the thesis that Buddhism has no God, insofar as it is taken to apply to Buddhism universally, is false. I defend this claim by interpreting a central text in East-Asian Buddhism – The Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna – through the lenses of perfect being theology (PBT), a research programme in philosophy of religion t...
