A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
As I was answering a question at the Daily Nous blog about book reviews, it struck me that a quick announcement here encouraging potential reviewers (and authors) to be in touch with me might be a good idea. I’ve taken Continue reading Book reviews: Philosophy East & West
The Indian Philosophy Blog is planning to update the Philosophical Rasika Report, last compiled in 2017, for North America and Europe. We are also hoping to add a South Asia list, as well as other international programs. If you work Continue reading Updating the Philosophical “Rasika” Report: Request for Assistance
As Patrick S. O’Donnell pointed out on a post about an interview with Ramakrishna Bhattacarya at 3AM magazine, the interviews we linked to a while ago are no no longer there. They have moved to 3:16 am. In addition to Continue reading 3AM interviews about Indian philosophy have moved
I’ve started a biweekly (in the sense of every other week) podcast about Indian philosophy, called sutras (and stuff), which is being hosted at Anchor.fm and has a website here. In the coming week, it should be distributed to other Continue reading New podcast about Indian Philosophy
I recently received a thoughtful email from Satyanarayana Hegde, who is a Civil Attorney by profession and characterizes himself as an autodidact interested in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Persian and Urdu languages and literary cultures who ccasionally perpetrates random acts of Continue reading Words are arrows piercing lotus leaves
An update on the endowed chair position in “Non-Western philosophy” at Yale-NUS, mentioned in this previous post. The position is for senior faculty, but I understand that associate professors (or equivalent) who could be promoted to full professor should apply. Continue reading Update: Yale-NUS Hiring
Yale-NUS College is hiring for an Endowed Chair in Philosophy, the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professorship. The AOS is broadly “non-Western philosophy,” specified as Arabic and Islamic Philosophy, Asian Philosophy, and Philosophy of Religion. In terms of AOC, Continue reading Endowed Chair in Philosophy, Yale-NUS College
A student has asked me this question, which I thought might be interesting to open up to a broader audience: After how long and how much study does a new scholar become proficient enough in Sanskrit to read the original Continue reading Reading Sanskrit texts “unaided”
Jorge Cham PhD Comics Recently I was asked for advice by an incoming graduate student who was interested in research in Indian philosophy. As I’ve given a lot of the same advice to my own students during the past few Continue reading Advice for new graduate students in Indian philosophy
Readers who are in Singapore may be interested in an upcoming book discussion hosted by the Bras Basah Open and Yale-NUS College, on Thursday, 7 March 2019 from 20:00-22:00 UTC+08. From the Facebook Event description: This is a discussion on Continue reading Event on Ethan Mills’ “Three Pillars of Skepticism in Classical Indian Philosophy”