Last week I gave a presentation at the God and Consciousness in Indian Traditions conference at Oxford on the subject of Consciousness, Agency, and Moral Responsibility in Vedānta. The talk compared three traditions: Śaṅkara’s Advaita Vedānta, Rāmānuja’s Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta, and Baladeva’s Acintya Bhedābheda Vedānta, with some further thoughts on the different ways in which we might conceive of dualism, nondualism, and monism. I’m grateful to the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, to the John Templeton Foundation that is funding the God and Consciousness Project in Indian Traditions project, and to the organisers Ricardo Silvestre, Benedikt Paul Göcke, and Alan Herbert.

The audio of my presentation is here:

The slides are here.

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