A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
Hi All, Matthew and Elisa asked me to provide a guest post on a project I am working on. I just spent the last two weeks in Europe, first Belgrade, Serbia and then Aarhus, Denmark working on one of my main Continue reading The Epistemology of Modality: Setting Up the Question for Classical Indian Philosophy–A Guest Post by Anand Vaidya
My discussion with Justin Whitaker continues after my last post, which was a response to his original post about trans* inclusiveness in Buddhism. There followed a discussion back and forth between Justin and myself. The discussion has moved away from Continue reading On justice and activism in Pali Buddhism
Jonardon Ganeri has recently posted an online blueprint for an “Institute for Cosmopolitan Philosophy in a Culturally Polycentric World”. He suggests an institute with autonomy from the traditional academy’s disciplinary and area-studies boundaries, structured as a network spanning different cultural Continue reading Towards an Institute for Cosmopolitan Philosophy
After the IABS, I realised that there were several authors of this blog there, and perhaps even more readers, and that we could have decided to have at least a coffee together. Thus, I thought that we could start sharing Continue reading Which conferences are on the horizon?
As discussed in the comments on Andrew’s thread, here are some excerpts from Richard Hayes’ review of Eastern Philosophy by our esteemed friend of the blog, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad. What is most relevant is the way in which it discusses the challenges Continue reading Richard Hayes’ review of Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad’s *Eastern Philosophy*
Our colleague Christian Coseru today posted a piece to the New APPS blog entitled “Philosophy’s Western Bias and What Can Be Done About It.” I’m curious to see what kind of reaction he receives. In my experience, professional philosophers in Continue reading Christian Coseru on “Philosophy’s Western Bias”
The 167th edition of the Philosophers’ Carnival can be found here! It includes also a post by Eric Schwitzgebel on the unavoidability of studying Chinese philosophy and a the post by Amod Lele (on this blog) on the “double standard” Continue reading Philosophers’ Carnival No. 167
On his American Buddhist Perspective blog, my friend Justin Whitaker recently posted an interesting interview on the experience of trans* people in American Buddhism. Justin uses “trans*” as a shorthand for “transgender”, “transsexual”, “transvestite” and similar terms – to denote Continue reading Trans* inclusiveness as an innovation to Buddhism
The Coffee Break Conference began as an attempt to encourage the kind of critical and open-ended discussions that have unfortunately been confined to short coffee breaks at most academic conferences. Coffee Break Conferences give scholars the opportunity to critically discuss Continue reading CfP: Comparison and Comparative Method—The sixth Coffee Break Conference
We (Elisa, Amod and I) thought it might be nice to occasionally ask our contributors and readers to share what they’ve been thinking about lately, whether research-related, for conferences, teaching, blogging, organizational or administrative projects, or merely musings on subjects Continue reading The “What’s everybody up to lately?” thread