A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
Issue 64.1 (January 2014) of PEW is out. Articles of special interest to our readers include: “Incommensurability of Two Conceptions of Reality: Dependent Origination and Emptiness in Nāgārjuna’s MMK” by Tao Jiang “Śrī Harṣa contra Hegel: Monism, Skeptical Method, and Continue reading New Issue of Philosophy East and West
Bloomsbury Philosophy, the publisher previously known as Continuum, has a new series of books possibly of interest to members: the Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy. From their commissioning editor: “These are designed to be the first reference works of Continue reading Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy
Apropos of some of the conversations we’ve been having here lately, there is a discussion between Jay Garfield and Jonardon Ganeri in the latest issue of The Philosophical Quarterly, on the question of modernity and Indian philosophy. The context is Garfield’s review Continue reading Garfield vs. Ganeri on Indian Modernity
The starting point of every discussion on this book is that it is an amazing achievement: more than 160 pp. of translation of Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇavārttika and Svavṛtti which will enhance further studies on Buddhist and non-Buddhist epistemology and, even more Continue reading Book note: Vincent Eltschinger’s “Penser l’autorité des Écritures”
On behalf of Alexus McLeod: (Please note especially the call for proposals regarding volumes on Indian philosophy.) Critical Overviews in Comparative Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield International). http://www.rowmaninternational.com/news/critical-overviews-in-comparative-philosophy The Critical Overviews in Comparative Philosophy series aims to present detailed and inclusive Continue reading New Book Series in Comparative Philosophy
I like Matthew Dasti’s idea of describing “Indian Philosophy in One Paragraph,” and clearly it has generated a lot of interest and fruitful debate. I thought, however, of a different way of approaching the issue. Can we list the top Continue reading Indian Philosophers in One Paragraph
How do reason and authority interact and trace each other’s boundaries? Which one is the first to be allowed to delimit its territory and, by means of that, also the other one’s one?
Should we try to periodise Indian philosophy or shall we give up any attempt, since each one will be criticised and is in some respect flawed? Periodisation, as recently highlighted by Julius Lipner, is a form of classification and as Continue reading Investigatio semper reformanda
One facet of “Indian philosophy” that may be perfectly obvious, but is nevertheless worth talking about at the beginning stages of a blog dedicated to the subject, is that nearly all of the texts we’ve been discussing or will be Continue reading The languages of Indian philosophy
[Cross-posted at Love of All Wisdom.] I am increasingly getting the impression that the debates over Orientalism in Asian traditions have taken a new turn, and one very much for the better. Few books of the twentieth century have made Continue reading A synthesis beyond Orientalism