A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
I’ve been informed that there is a remarkable fellowship for a specialist in Indian and Comparative Philosophy at Wolfson College, Oxford, at the Berggruen Institute for Philosophy and Culture. The application deadline in April 17, 2017. See below for details. https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/content/berggruen-research-fellow-comparative-philosophy Continue reading Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford 2017-9
Please see the delightful website below for an argument for why undergraduates have good reasons to pursue philosophy for pragmatic as well as humanistic reasons. https://philosophyisagreatmajor.com/ It might be useful for blog members who are professors in the US, as advising Continue reading Philosophy is a great major
Journal of Indian Philosophy 45.2 is out. Asian Philosophy 27.1 contains an article by Roy Perrett on the problem of other minds in Yogācāra Buddhism. Hegel Bulletin has an article responding to Hegel’s Criticism of Hinduism, largely focused on the problem Continue reading A handful of recent articles
Global Philosophy Resources, www.globalphilosophyresources.com, provides easy-to-use resources for faculty members who are interested in diversifying their teaching but who lack training in nonwestern philosophy. It is looking for contributors. Guidelines: Each entry should introduce a nonwestern text that would be suitable Continue reading Global Philosophy Resources: call for contributions
[The following is a guest post by Yigal Bronner and Andrew Ollett.] We would like to introduce the readers of this blog to the Pandit Project at www.panditproject.org. This is a new resource for students of the intellectual traditions of Continue reading Introducing the Pandit Project
I have agreed to guest edit, along with Prasanta Bandyopadhyay, the Fall 2017 edition of the APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies. The theme of the issue will be “B. K. Matilal: The Past and Future of Indian Continue reading CFP: B. K. Matilal: The Past and Future of Indian Philosophy
Sophia 55.4 is entirely devoted to Indian philosophy, with a number of interesting contributions by excellent scholars, including blog contributor Anand Vaidya. It is devoted to Bimal K Matilal, 25 years after his passing. Full contents here: http://link.springer.com/journal/11841/55/4?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals
Please see the following Call for Papers from Sai Bhatawadekar, Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. There is more information on the Center’s website. CALL FOR PAPERS South Asian Studies: Pedagogy Continue reading CFP: South Asian Studies Symposium: Pedagogy and Community Building
I’m very happy to bring to people’s attention that Roy Perrett’s Introduction to Indian Philosophy – impressive for its rare combination of analytic depth and extensive breadth – has has won an award; it has been named by the American Continue reading Award for Roy Perrett’s Introduction to Indian Philosophy
Victoria Lysenko has been so nice as to alert me about a recent workshop on Buddhism Phenomenology, to which very interesting authorities on both topics (ranging from Dan Zahavi to “our” Christian Coseru) contributed. They realised an interactive poster through Continue reading Buddhism and Phenomenology