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We recently received the following information from Scott Stroud (University of Texas at Austin) on behalf of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP). This prize is an exciting way to recognize the some of the many philosophical Continue reading Ambedkar Prize Established by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP)
My previous post looked at Elisa’s discussion of a seeming contradiction in Kumārila. In this post I attempt to give my own answer to the question that Elisa saw as prompted by that seeming contradiction: Does Kumārila accept that the Continue reading Is I-cognition for Kumārila a kind of perception?
Unlike “progressive” Americans who embrace race, the caste reformer B.R. Ambedkar envisioned a world where race/caste distinctions were annihilated – and specifically by mixing, by intermarriage. The view of racial purity shared by the mainstream American left and right – Continue reading “The future will belong to the mestiza”
Suguru Ishimura and I are currently preparing a heavily annotated English translation of Ślokavārttika ātmavāda, verses 107–139, the section concerned with I-cognition (ahampratyaya). The translation is to appear in a Kumārila Reader, edited by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das. After Continue reading Is there a seeming contradiction in Kumārila’s account of I-cognition?