homepage of Lajos Brons
(Almost all my publications can be downloaded from my Academia.edu or Humanities Commons page.)


journal articles, books, and book chapters (in English)

2023. "What is Real?". Organon F 30.2: 182-220.

2022. A Buddha land in this world: philosophy, Utopia, and radical Buddhism. Earth: Punctum Books.

2019. "Patterns, noise, and beliefs". Principia 23.1: 19-51.

2019. "Aphantasia, SDAM, and episodic memory". Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 28: 9-32.

with Takashi Iida. 2019. "Philosophy of mental time — A theme introduction". Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 28: 1-8.

2018. "Postscript: Reply to McLeod". In: Bo Mou (ed.), Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, Leiden: Brill, pp. 364-370.

2017. The hegemony of psychopathy. Santa Barbara (CA): Brainstorm Books / Punctum Books.

2017. "The Problem of the Rock and the grammar of consciousness". Disputatio 9.44: 5-12

2016. "Recognizing "truth" in Chinese philosophy". Logos & Episteme 7.3: 273-286.

2016. "Putnam and Davidson on coherence, truth, and justification". The Science of Mind 54: 51-70.

2016. "Facing death from a safe distance: saṃvega and moral psychology". Journal of Buddhist Ethics 23: 83-128.

2015. "Anarchism as metaphilosophy". The Science of Mind 53: 139-158.

2015. "Wang Chong, truth, and quasi-pluralism". Comparative Philosophy 6.1: 129-148. Reprinted in: Bo Mou (ed.), Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 341-363.

2015. "Othering, an analysis". Transcience: a Journal of Global Studies 6.1: 69-90.

2014. "The incoherence of denying my death". Journal of Philosophy of Life 4.2: 68-89.

2014. "Language death and diversity: philosophical and linguistic implications". The Science of Mind 52: 243-260.

2014. "Needing the other: the anatomy of the Mass Noun Thesis". Argument 4.1: 103-122.

2013. "Meaning and reality: a cross-traditional encounter". In: Bo Mou & R. Tieszen (eds.), Constructive Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches in Philosophy, Leiden: Brill, pp. 199-220.

2013. "What does it mean for something to exist?". The Science of Mind 51: 53-74.

2012. "Dharmakīrti, Davidson, and knowing reality". Comparative Philosophy 3.1: 30-57.

2012. "Bare and indexical existence: integrating logic and sensibility in ontology". In: S. Watanabe (ed.), Logic and Sensibility, Tokyo: Keio University Press, pp. 223-237.

2011. "Applied relativism and Davidson's arguments against conceptual schemes". The Science of Mind 49: 221-240.

2011. "The grammar of 'meaning'". CARLS Series of Advanced Study of Logic and Sensibility 4: 363-371.

2010. "Concepts in theoretical thought: an introductory essay". CARLS Series of Advanced Study of Logic and Sensibility 3: 293-298.

2007. "Regional Cultures". In: G.J. Ashworth, P.D. Groote, & P.H. Pellenbarg (eds.), A Compact Geography of the Northern Netherlands, Assen: In Boekvorm, pp. 29-32.

2006. "Indirect measurement of regional culture in the Netherlands". TESG: Journal of Economic and Social Geography 97.5: 547-566.

2005. "Cultural borders as barriers to firm relocation". In: G. van Vilsteren & E. Wever (eds.), Borders and economic behaviour in Europe: a geographical approach, Assen: Royal van Gorcum, pp. 62-76.

2004. "Regional culture and entrepreneurial behaviour in the Netherlands: an exploratory study". In: E. Boneschansker, J. van Dijk, L.G. Jansma, & K. Verhaar (eds.), Cultural uniqueness and regional economy, Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy, pp. 53-73.

with P.H. Pellenbarg. 2003. "Economy, culture and entrepreneurship in a spatial context". In: T. Marszał (ed.),Spatial aspects of entrepreneurship, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, pp. 11-36.


other (book reviews, selected publications in Dutch, PhD thesis, etc.)

2016. book review of: Jay Garfield (2015), Engaging Buddhism: why it matters to philosophy. In: Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94.2: 415.

2014. book review of: Samuel Wheeler III (2014), Neo-Davidsonian metaphysics: from the true to the good. In: International Journal of Philosophical Studies 22.2: 286-291.

2006. On the ontology of events in demographies of organizations. AMIDSt Working paper #9, University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies.

2005. Rethinking the culture - economy dialectic. PhD thesis, Groningen/The Hague.

2005. "Dokteren aan de maatschappij: de gebrekkige modellen van de sociale wetenschap". (Tinkering with society: the flawed models of social science.) Skepter 18.4: 14-17.

with P.H. Pellenbarg. 2004. "Special Economic Zones in Polen (nog) weinig effectief". (Special Economic Zones in Poland (still) not very effective.) Geografie 13.3: 32-36.

2004. book review of: U. Kockel (2002), Regional culture and economic development: explorations in European ethnology. In: TESG: Journal of Economic and Social Geography 95.1: 123-125.

2002. Ondernemersgedrag en de dialectiek van cultuur en economie. (Entrepreneurial behavior and the dialectic of culture and economy.) Netherlands Geographical Studies (NGS) vol. 296, Utrecht: KNAG.

with B. van Hoven & L. Jager. 2000. "Verdwijnen van voorzieningen in kleine dorpen". (Disappearance of services in small villages.) Noorderbreedte 24.6: 36-37.