A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
The 2016 Eastern APA Meeting (January 6-9 in Washington, D.C.) is close at hand, and the draft program is online. In terms of talks and panels focusing on Indian philosophy, there are a few: Wednesday Evening, January 6: 6:30–9:30 p.m. International Continue reading Upcoming APA Talks
As promised, this (a bit belated) post summarizes some talks from the October 2015 Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy in Monterey, CA. To keep the post brief, I’m choosing to discuss only those SACP talks which I attended, have Continue reading Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy 2015
Two three upcoming conferences of interest to our readers. First, the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) Annual Meeting is this weekend in Monterey, CA, and there are quite a few sessions pertaining to Indian philosophy, too many to list here, Continue reading Upcoming Conferences: SACP 2015, SAGP 2015, E-APA 2016
Over at NDPR, Mark Siderits reviews The Moon Points Back, an edited volume by the Cowherds (Koji Tanaka, Yasuo Deguchi, Jay Garfield and Graham Priest). From the review: The papers illustrate the relative maturity and fruitfulness of a project that Garfield characterizes Continue reading The Moon Points Back: Review at NDPR
For those of you who are podcast listeners, note that in a few days (20 Sept), History of Philosophy without any gaps will premiere a series focusing on India–Jonardon Ganeri will be talking with podcast host Peter Adamson. A tentative Continue reading History of Philosophy without any gaps
No doubt many of you will have seen this by now, but for those who have not: Noûs has just published a truly amazing study on this topic by a team of experimental philosophers (Machery, Stich, Rose, Chatterjee, Karasawa, Struchiner, Continue reading “Gettier” Intuition Across Cultures
In light of Stephen Harris’ review of Christopher Framarin’s book, Hinduism and Environmental Ethics and Elisa Freschi’s discussion of Amod Lele’s article about Śāntideva’s metaphysical and ethical thought, I’d like to pose a question. This question has been posed here in the Continue reading Ethics in Classical Indian Philosophy
Like postulation (arthāpatti), the pramāṇa or instrument of knowledge known as upamāna, often translated as “analogy,” is both fascinating and underdeveloped in contemporary analysis. There are few stand-alone books focusing just on upamāna, although it is frequently treated along with testimony and perception. I suspect this is Continue reading Analogical reasoning and postulation
Compared to the pramāṇa of pratyakṣa (perception) or anumāna (inferential reasoning), arthāpatti (postulation or presumption) has received less attention in contemporary secondary literature. This is unfortunate, since it is broadly recognized as a pramāṇa, whether as a sui generis one, as Continue reading What is arthāpatti?
In preparing for the fall term, I have been looking through translations of Udāyanācarya’s Kusumāñjali. The one excerpted in Radhakrishnan’s Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy (mentioned in some earlier posts here as not a good starting point) is by E.B. Cowell, translated in 1864. I checked out Continue reading (Relatively) Recent History: E.B. Cowell’s Preface to the Kusumāñjali