Sonam Kachru’s research focuses primarily on the history of philosophy, with particular attention to the history of Buddhist and Indian philosophy in Ancient South Asia. His areas of interest include metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the history of natural philosophy, which he approaches with a commitment to a global philosophical outlook and with particular attention to a connected ancient world. His first book, Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism(Columbia University Press), takes up the ways in which one premodern Buddhist philosopher, Vasubandhu of Peshawar, used descriptions of experiences in dreams and non-human forms of life in thought experiments to rethink the relationship between mind and world.
