A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
When I was a new Sanskrit student, one of my first teachers, a female Sanskritist, told me that she didn’t agree with the idea of introducing female pronouns while translating Sanskrit texts (excepting, of course, when the original Sanskrit is Continue reading Translation question: balancing use of gendered pronouns and historical fidelity
Volume 43, issue 2-3 of the JIP is available, guest edited by our own Elisa Freschi. Congratulations, Elisa! The issue theme is the reuse of texts in Indian philosophy. Table of contents is here: http://link.springer.com/journal/10781/43/2?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals
Jonathan has just accepted an offer from the Religion Department of the University of Florida, Gainsville. If you have time, maybe you can tell us what you expect in your new position and what you’ve been working on.
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
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
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
Evan Thompson has kindly alerted us to a very interesting development, the Open Mind project, which just went live: http://open-mind.net. From the “About” page: This is an edited collection of 39 original papers and as many commentaries and replies. . . Continue reading The Open Mind Project