Professor

About

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 Consciousness in Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic 2026), Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind (Rowman & Littlefield  2022), and co-editor of Thinking without Borders (Bloomsbury Academic 2025).

Publications

Authored books:

  1. Consciousness in Indian Philosophy: Illuminating Mind, World, and Self, Introductions to World Philosophies, Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
  2. Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind: A Constructive Engagement, Critical Inquiries in Comparative Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. Reviewed in: Philosophical Psychology, Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, and Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

Edited book:

  1. Thinking without Borders: Essays in Honor of Arindam Chakrabarti, Matthew MacKenzie, Amy Donahue, and Anand Vaidya eds., Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Recent articles and chapters:

  1. “Look! How Wonderful! On Chakrabarti’s Phenomenology of Wonder and Witness,” in Thinking without Borders: Essays in Honor of Arindam Chakrabarti, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
  2. “Reflexivity, Intentionality, and the Embodied Subject: A Phenomenological Reflection in Honor of J.N. Mohanty,” Philosophy East and West, 75:3, 2025.
  3. “Minimal Subjectivity and Reflexive Awareness,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 31: 5-6, pp. 37-61, 2024.
  4. “Emotion, Self-Knowledge, and Liberation in Indian Philosophy” in Emotional Self-Knowledge (A. Montes Sánchez, A. Salice, eds.), London: Routledge, 2023.
  5. “A Post-Reductionist Buddhism?” in Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality: Essays in Honor of Mark Siderits, Dordrecht: Springer, 2023.
  6. “Enactivism and Gender Performativity,” with Ashby Butnor, in Feminist Philosophy of Mind (Keya Maitra and Jen McWeeny, eds.), New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
  7. “Meditative Experience and the Plasticity of Self-Experience” in Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Meditation (Rick Repetti, ed.), London: Routledge, 2022.
  8. “Spiritual Animals: Sense-Making, Self-Transcendence, and Liberal Naturalism,” Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion, 56:4, pp. 971-983, 2021.
  9. “Dual-Aspect Reflexivism in Śāntarakṣita’s Philosophy of Mind,” Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, vol. 3, pp. 97-120, 2021.
  10. “Volition, Action, and Skill in Indian Buddhist Philosophy,” in The Routledge Handbook of Skill and Expertise (Ellen Fridland and Carlotta Parvese, eds.), London: Routledge, 2020.
  11. “Physicalism and Beyond: Flanagan, Buddhism, and Consciousness,” in Naturalism and Asian Philosophy: Owen Flanagan and Beyond (Bong Rae Suk, ed.), London: Routledge, 2019.

 

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