Education

PhD in Philosophy

Yale University

Other in Philosophy

Yale

Other in Philosophy

Harvard College

Published Works

• Mascarenhas, V. (2025). Not Better to Have Been: Death and the Value of Life. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Philosophical Investigations.
• Mascarenhas, V. (2010). "God and the Good in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics". Epoche: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 15(1), 35-59. https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=epoche&id=epoche_2010_0015_0001_0035_0059.
• Mascarenhas, V. (2006). "An Indo-European Culture?". Proceedings of the VIII European Culture Conference.
• Mascarenhas, V. (2005). "No Justice, No Peace?" Pre-emptive, Preventive, and Humanitarian Interventions and the Imbalance of Power"., http://isme.tamu.edu/JSCOPE05/Mascarenhas05.html.
• Mascarenhas, V. (2004). "Consciousness, Representation, Thought and Extension: An Interpretation of Spinoza's Monistic Parallelism". Studia Spinozana XIV,, 92-109.
• Mascarenhas, V. (2002). "Intentionality, Causality, and Self-Consciousness". Metaphysica III, 2, 83-96.
• Mascarenhas, V. (2001). "Hume's Recantation Revisited". Hume Studies XXVII, 2, 279-300.
• Mascarenhas, V. (2001). "Consciousness Naturalized: Can the Access the World be Accessed?". Escavatio XIV,, 215-226.
• Mascarenhas, V. (2001). "Descartes' Ontological and Cosmological Proofs of God's Existence: A Refutation of Solipsism?". Philosophical Investigations XXV, 2, 190-200.