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One image I’ve encountered in Sanskrit texts on language is that of the arrow standing in for the capacity of words. I think the first time (in secondary literature) I saw this was in K.K. Raja’s Indian Theories of Meaning, Continue reading Words are arrows
I received the following announcement from Karen O’Brien-Kop and I am glad to advertise it, also because several readings will be conducted by long-term colleagues and friends of mine, including also “our” Alex Watson. You can read Karen’s very interesting Continue reading Sanskrit Reading Room at Soas (London)
At the beginning of January, I traveled from Singapore to Kolkata to join a group of scholars from around India as well as the US and New Zealand–this was for a seminar at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture that Continue reading International Seminar at RMIC, Gol Park, Kolkata
The dates of the next Nalanda dialogue are: February the 22nd ton 24th. I recently received the following announcement about it (unedited):
From Warp, Weft, and Way–I imagine that the same remarks would apply to philosophers here reading the Indian Philosophy Blog, so I quote in full. Note that the deadline for submission is 15 February 2018. Hello, fellow philosophers! This is Continue reading Eastern APA Submissions in Asian Philosophy
Submitted by Melanie Johnson-Moxley: PHIL 4810/7810 PHILOSOPHY OF INDIA UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA Instructor: Dr. Bina Gupta, Curators’ Research Professor Emerita of Philosophy Semester: 4-week online summer course, starts June 4 and ends June 30, 2018. Course Description: “Indian Philosophy” refers to Continue reading Notice of online course in Indian philosophy
Within his Mīmāṃsā commentary, the Seśvaramīmāṃsā, Veṅkaṭanātha explicitly dissents from Śabara (also) in his commentary on Pūrva Mīmāṃsā Sūtra (henceforth PMS) 1.1.31 on Vedic words seemingly expressing proper names, e.g., Prāvāhaṇi and Babara (which are used by opponents as an Continue reading Dissent among a Viśiṣṭādvaitin and a Mīmāṃsaka: What do Vedic words mean?
Let me begin with a guessing game, for those readers who consider themselves relatively widely read in philosophy. I am thinking of a text that examines two different views of human beings. It examines on one hand the view that Continue reading Ultimate and conventional truth in Wilfrid Sellars
In his Seśvaramīmāṃsā (ad 1.1.29), Veṅkaṭanātha discusses the problem of the authorship of the Veda while being a Mīmāṃsaka, but also trying to condede something to theism. For instance, he is less straightforward than Mīmāṃsā authors in ruling out the Continue reading Did ṛṣis author the Veda? A Mīmāṃsā and Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta view about it