Mikel Burley is a scholar of religion and philosophy, known for his work on the Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
He researches South Asian religions, in particular Hinduism and Buddhism, and their philosophies.
[2] Finlay Malcolm, reviewing A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion, states that the book "unifies and extends" Burley's "valuable work on diversification in philosophy of religion".
Malcolm welcomes Burley's work to diversify "the questions, methods, and phenomena under investigation" in the field.
[4] Simon Hewitt, welcoming Burley's edited collection Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics, notes that Wittgenstein, while "a towering figure" in the domain, has been a persona non grata, possibly because of his "meditative" and seemingly obscure style, while post-Quinean metaphysics in the United States has been opposed to him.