A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
Please welcome Anand Jayprakash Vaidya as a new contributor to the Indian Philosophy Blog! Anand is the Director of the Center for Comparative Philosophy at San Jose State University in California. He did his undergraduate work at UCLA focusing on Continue reading New Contributor
Arthāpatti ‘postulation’ is the instrument of knowledge through which we know that Devadatta is out given that he is alive and not home. In Classical India, just like among contemporary scholars, several thinkers (especially of the Nyāya school) have tried Continue reading Why are postulation (arthāpatti) and inference not the same thing?
Perhaps since Wittgenstein, we’ve become a bit cautious about taking language as a guide to reality, but here is, I suggest, one place where reflection on language provides a profound metaphysical suggestion about the nature of selfhood. Amongst many of Continue reading I am a place
Malcolm was just hired by the Yale-NUS College.Congratulations to Malcolm! If you have a minute, maybe you could tell our readers what Yale-NUS is like or how you expect life to be over there. [Note: this post was slightly edited Continue reading Congratulations to Malcolm Keating
After many years, I am sort of fed up with having to answer the question above, and this is also why I had not read the essay by Barua (bearing the title Is there ‘Philosophy’ in India? An Exercise in Continue reading “Is there Philosophy in India?” and what this question tells us, an essay by Ankur Barua
The hardest part, I find, about the philosophical vocabulary of Sanskrit is not its enormity or its technicality, but the fact that it includes a couple of “basic” or even “common-sense” words whose import, in any given context, can be Continue reading Tricky words: prāp-
This is somewhat related to Matt Dasti’s last call-for-papers post, but more geared towards philosophy colleagues, not philosophy courses. If you’re like me, you occasionally have peers saying that they’re interested in Indian philosophy but overwhelmed, and don’t know where Continue reading Getting Started in Indian Philosophy: Query for Readers
Posted on behalf of Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad: [Please note that Ram is especially looking looking for a paper on Hindu Monasticism] Call for Papers: ‘Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective’ Group, American Academy of Religion AAR Conference, Atlanta Continue reading Call for Papers: ‘Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective’ Group, American Academy of Religion
Posted on behalf of Brian Bruya: CALL FOR PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS Including for a Special Workshop on How to Incorporate Asian Texts into Traditional Philosophy Courses 2016 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association January 6-9, 2016, Washington, Continue reading Call for Papers and Panel Proposals: Including for a Special Workshop on How to Incorporate Asian Texts into Traditional Philosophy Courses
Friends, following the practice of Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, I try to make a point to personally contact qualified reviewers for work on Indian philosophy for Philosophy East and West, while avoiding open calls for reviews. That said, I am in possession Continue reading Soliciting reviews for Philosophy East and West