James Giles graduated from Point Grey Secondary School in Vancouver. He studied at the University of British Columbia and the University of Edinburgh, where he gained a PhD in philosophy. He is an external associate professor of psychology at Roskilde University and a tutor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. In addition to teaching at UBC and Edinburgh, he has also held appointments at other universities in the UK, Denmark, Australia, Guam, and Hawaii.

• The Way of Awareness in Daoist Philosophy, Three Pines Press, 2020.
• Sexual Essays: Gender, Desire, and Nakedness, Hamilton Books, 2017.
• Sexual Attraction: The Psychology of Allure, Praeger, 2015.
• The Shell of When, Windways Press/Lulu.com, 2011.
• The Nature of Sexual Desire, University Press of America, 2008 (Hardback, Praeger, 2004).
• No Self to be Found: The Search for Personal Identity, University Press of America, 1997.
• A Study in Phenomenalism, Aalborg University, 1994.

• Kierkegaard and Freedom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
• Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• French Existentialism: Consciousness, Ethics, and Relations with Others, Rodopi, 1999.

• Taoist Meditation and Psychotherapy, in Hilarion G. Petzold and Frank Siegele (eds), Martial and Movement Arts: Therapy and Agogy, forthcoming.
• The Relevance of the No-self Theory for Contemporary Mindfulness, [pre-print] Current Opinion in Psychology (Special issue on Mindfulness) 28, 2019, 298-301. Abstract.
• Hakuin, Scepticism, and Seeing into One’s Own Nature, Asian Philosophy, 25, 2015, 1-18.
• Psychology and the Death Penalty, Monitor on Psychology, 45, 2014, 4.
• The Metaphysics of Awareness in the Philosophy of Laozi, International Philosophical Quarterly, 53, 2013, 435-451. Abstract.
• Darwin at 200 versus Kierkegaard at 200, Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, 61, 2013, 8-12. Russian translation in Moscow State University Bulletin, no. 1, series 7, 2016, 35-43.
• Review: Handsome Nanda by Asvaghosa (Clay Sanskrit Library), translated by Linda Covill, Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 3, 2012, 177-180.
• Review: Policing Sexuality: Sex, Society, and the State by Julian C. H. Lee, Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, 22, 2012, 305-307.
• Adult Baby Syndrome and Age Identity Disorder: Comment on Kise and Ngyun (2011), Archives of Sexual Behavior, 4, 2012, 321-322.
• Review: Kierkegaard on Faith and Love by Sharon Krishek, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 19, 2011, 1004-1008.
• ‘Faith’, ‘Blaise Pascal’, ‘The Other’, and ‘Suicide,’ in Jack Reynolds, Felicity Joseph, and Ashley Woodward (eds), Continuum Companion to Existentialism, London: Continuum, 2011.
• Here’s a Theory about why You Aren’t Covered in Fur, The Vancouver Sun, 13 July 2011.
• Naked Love: The Evolution of Human Hairlessness, Biological Theory, 5, 2010, 1-11. Abstract
• Sex Hormones and Sexual Desire, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38, 2008, 45-66. Abstract
• Fantasies, in Yudit Greenberg (Ed.), Encylopedia of Love in World Religions, vol. 1, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2008, 191-193.
• Jealousy, in Yudit Greenberg (Ed.), Encylopedia of Love in World Religions, vol. 2, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2008, 338-340.
• No Such Thing as Excessive Levels of Sexual Behavior: A Response to Långström and Hanson (2006), Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35, 2006, 641-642.
• Social Constructionism and Sexual Desire, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 36, 2006, 226-238. Abstract
• The Heterosexual/Homosexual Distinction: A Reply to McConaghy (2005), Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35, 2005, 3-4.
• Hinduism, in Alan Soble (Ed.), Sex from Plato to Pagilia: A Philosophical Encylopedia (pp.448-454), Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.
• Indian Erotology, in Alan Soble (Ed.), Sex from Plato to Pagilia: A Philosophical Encylopedia (pp.493- 96), Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.
• Review Article: Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field by Gilbert Herdt, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 2004, 114-117.
• Electroconvulsive Therapy and the Fear of Deviance, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 32, 2002, 340-363. Abstract
• From Inwardness to Emptiness: Kierkegaard and Yogacara Buddhism, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 9, 2001, 311-340. Japanese translation in Shin Kyerukegoru Kenkyu (Journal of the Kierkegaard Society of Japan), 2, 2002, 94-147.
• Review: The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard edited by Alastair Hannay and Gordon D. Marino, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 7, 1999, 193-195.
• Review: The Christianization of Pyrrhonism: Scepticism and Faith in Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Shestov by José R. Maia Neto, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 6, 2000, 526-629.
• A Theory of Love and Sexual Desire, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 24, 1994, 339-357. Abstract.
• A Reply to Antony Flew, Philosophy, 68, 1994, 90-93.
• The No-self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity, Philosophy East and West, 43, 1993, 175- 200.
• Bodily Theory and Theory of the Body, Philosophy, 66, 1991, 339-347.