Selected publications
How the Brahmins Won From Alexander to the Guptas. Brill. +more2016.
*Rites without symbols Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. In press.
*Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism. Leiden - Boston: Brill. (Handbook of Oriental Studies 2/24. ). 2011.
*Language and Reality: On an episode in Indian thought. Leiden - Boston: Brill. 2011.
*"Archetypes and bottlenecks: Reflections on the text history of the Mahābhārata. " Pūrvāparaprajñābhinandanam. East and West, Past and Present. Indological and Other Essays in Honour of Klaus Karttunen. Ed. Bertil Tikkanen & Albion M. Butters. Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society. 2011. (Studia Orientalia 110, 2011. ) pp. 39-54.
*"The spread of Sanskrit. " From Turfan to Ajanta. Festschrift for Dieter Schlingloff on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday. Ed. Eli Franco and Monika Zin. Lumbini International Research Institute. 2010. Vol. 1. pp. 117-139.
*"Ritual, holophrastic utterances, and the symbolic mind. " Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual. Volume I: Grammar and morphologies of ritual practices in Asia. Ed. Axel Michaels and Anand Mishra. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2010. pp. 159-202.
*"What did Indian philosophers believe?” Logic and Belief in Indian Philosophy. Ed. Piotr Balcerowicz. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 2009 [2010]. (Warsaw Indological Studies, 3. ) pp. 19-44.
*Buddhist Teaching in India. Boston: Wisdom Publications. 2009.
*"Udbhaṭa, a grammarian and a Cārvāka. ” Linguistic Traditions of Kashmir. Essays in memory of paṇḍit Dinanath Yaksha. Ed. Mrinal Kaul and Ashok Aklujkar. New Delhi: D. K. Printworld. 2008. pp. 281-299.
*Greater Magadha. Studies in the culture of early India. Leiden - Boston: Brill. 2007. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 2 South Asia, 19. )
*"Vedānta as Mīmāṃsā. ” Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta: Interaction and Continuity. Ed. Johannes Bronkhorst. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. (Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, 10. 3. ) 2007. pp. 1-91.
*Modes of debate and refutation of adversaries in classical and medieval India: a preliminary investigation. Antiqvorvm Philosophia 1 (“Forme di dibattito e di confutazione degli avversari nel pensiero antico”), 2007, 269-280.
*“Systematic philosophy between the empires: some determining features. ” Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE. Ed. Patrick Olivelle. Oxford etc. : Oxford University Press. 2006. pp. 287-313.
*William James et son darwinisme religieux. Archives de psychologie 72, 2006, 33-48.
*Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita on sphoṭa. Journal of Indian Philosophy 33(1), 2005, 3-41.
*“Ājīvika doctrine reconsidered. ” Essays in Jaina Philosophy and Religion. Ed. Piotr Balcerowicz. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
