A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
If you write on Plato, you should start in medias res. If you write on Thomas Aquinas, you can do the same (unless you are writing for a journal specialising on something completely different, say, business ethics). If you write Continue reading Writing on South Asian Philosophy? A few tips for younger colleagues
In case you missed it, I would like to recommend a website on philosophy of action which is a great single go-to page for almost anything related to the topic. It offers links, biographies, encyclopedic entries, essays, videos and learning Continue reading Philosophy of action
The new program of the CBC 2019 is particularly appealing and can be downloaded here (as for the flyer) and here (as for the program itself).
During the APA (E) meeting in New York (January, 7-10, 2019), there will be an author meets critics session with Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad on his book Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India. The session is scheduled for Jan. 8th Continue reading Book discussion of Ram-Prasad’s Human Being, Bodily Being during the APA (Jan 2019)
Gavin Hyman explains in his 2007 contribution to Martin’s Cambdride Companion to Atheism as well as in his 2010 A Short History of Atheism that atheism is always the refusal of a given form of theism. In particular, in European Continue reading Hyman’s analysis of atheism and some interesting Indian parallels
The next CBC will take place in Oxford, Wolfson College, 4–6.12.2018. You can learn the names of the speakers and everything else here and in this flyer. General title: Science and Technology in Premodern Asia
I apologise for the late posting and hope it might be interesting for some readers. University Assistant (post doc) at the Department of Philosophy Reference number: 8994 The advertised position is located at the Department of Philosophy which is part Continue reading 6ys post-doc position in intercultural philosophy (Vienna)
The following petition has been recently posted on the Indology mailing list: Dear Colleagues, A number of Sanskrit scholars plan to present the following letter to the International Association of Sanskrit Studies. We think it’s important that everyone in the Continue reading About the International Association of Sanskrit Studies
We invite proposals for papers for the 9th Coffee Break Conference, which will be hosted at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 4-6 December 2018. The theme of the conference this year is “Science and Technology in Premodern Asia.” We welcome Continue reading Coffee Break Conference, Oxford 2018 Call for papers
For those of you who are interested in learning Pāli, the Middle Indo-Aryan language used by Theravāda Buddhists, you may want to have a look at the new on-demand course from the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. I know one Continue reading Pāli courses online