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Latest volume of the American Philosophy Association’s Newsletter on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies

Posted on 21 May 2015 by Matthew Dasti — 5 Comments ↓

Friends, Volume 14.2 of the American Philosophy Association’s Newsletter on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies is out, co-edited by Prasanta Bandyopadhyay and yours truly. Link here: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.apaonline.org/resource/collection/2EAF6689-4B0D-4CCB-9DC6-FB926D8FF530/AsianV14n2.pdf The contributors include established philosophers in our field like Stephen Phillips Continue reading Latest volume of the American Philosophy Association’s Newsletter on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies→

Bimal Matilal Conference, June 26-27, Oxford

Posted on 14 May 2015 by Andrew Nicholson — 1 Comment ↓

Jonardon Ganeri has asked me to publicize an upcoming conference this summer dedicated to the memory of his teacher, the great Bimal Krishna Matilal. It will be held in Wolfson College, Oxford. Many leading scholars will be giving talks that Continue reading Bimal Matilal Conference, June 26-27, Oxford→

New Issue of the Journal of Indian Philosophy

Posted on 25 April 2015 by Matthew Dasti — 8 Comments ↓

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

“Thinking with the Yoga Sūtra: Translation, Interpretation”

Posted on 25 April 2015 by Andrew Nicholson — 5 Comments ↓

Readers may be interested to know that Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles recently hosted a conference on Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras. A video playlist including all of the talks is now available on YouTube. Among the many fine scholars to Continue reading “Thinking with the Yoga Sūtra: Translation, Interpretation”→

Congratulations to Jonathan Edelmann

Posted on 17 April 2015 by Matthew Dasti — 4 Comments ↓

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.

The Word and the World: A Philosophical Inquiry – Summer School, July 2015

Posted on 8 April 2015 by Agnieszka Rostalska — 11 Comments ↓

Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) in Kerala and Manipal University (MU) are jointly organizing a two-week international Summer School: The Word and the World – A Philosophical Inquiry from July 13-25, 2015. University students, researchers and faculty members are welcome to join. Continue reading The Word and the World: A Philosophical Inquiry – Summer School, July 2015→

PostDoc (2+3ys) on Yoga, Ayurveda Alchemy

Posted on 8 April 2015 by elisa freschi — No Comments ↓

I am posting the following announcement on behalf of Dagmar Wujastyk, who recently won an ERC project (that is, an amazingly competitive project funded by the EU, for which the chances of success are really low, lower than 10%, but Continue reading PostDoc (2+3ys) on Yoga, Ayurveda Alchemy→

“History of Philosophies, East and West” MA Program

Posted on 4 April 2015 by Andrew Nicholson — 9 Comments ↓

I am pleased to announce that a new joint Master of Arts Program by the Asian & Asian American Studies Department and Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University has just been approved: “History of Philosophies, East and West.” To see Continue reading “History of Philosophies, East and West” MA Program→

Call for Papers: Is Theology Comparable? (Rome, September 17–19 2015)

Posted on 23 March 2015 by elisa freschi — No Comments ↓

Recently a few articles (see here, here and here) have raised the issue of whether philosophy of religion is not really little more than Christian apologetics. A straightforward answer would be that it is not, but an output of the Continue reading Call for Papers: Is Theology Comparable? (Rome, September 17–19 2015)→

Philosophy Meets Cultural Diversity

Posted on 8 March 2015 by Malcolm Keating — 15 Comments ↓

Warp, Weft, and Way draws our attention to an upcoming conference, called “Philosophy Meets Cultural Diversity,” at the University of Pittsburgh. Here is a link to the program, which has as its goal “to bring together anthropologists, psychologists, comparative philosophers, and Continue reading Philosophy Meets Cultural Diversity→