Christian Coseru

Early life and education

Coseru was educated at the Vasile Alecsandri National College (Galați), a Gymnasium in Galați, Romania. He pursued initial philosophy studies at the University of Bucharest, where he obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy, writing his teza de licenta (roughly equivalent to an M.A. thesis) on Plotinus' theory of emanation under the supervision of Gheorghe Vlăduțescu. In the mid-1990s, Coseru spent four and a half years in India doing advanced study in Sanskrit and Indian philosophy under the supervision of Sibajiban Bhattacharyya. He was affiliated with several research institutes, including The Asiatic Society of Calcutta, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, De Nobili College, and the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies). Coseru completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the Australian National University under the supervision of Jay L. Garfield and John Powers (academic). His external dissertation examiners were Mark Siderits, Georges Dreyfus, and Purushottama Bilimoria.