A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
The deadlines for the job market in philosophy are increasingly spread out, rather than clustering around October-December. For those philosophers still on the job market, I’d like to draw your attention to a post with a deadline of February 15, Continue reading Tenure-track job posting in Asian Philosophy
We have a new contributor in the IPhB! Malcolm Keating just completed his PhD at the philosophy department of the University of Texas, Austin. His thesis is entitled Speaking Indirectly: Non-Literal Meaning in Indian Philosophy and deals with lakṣaṇā from Continue reading New Contributor