A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
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
This post is the European continuation of Andrew Nicholson’s one. Andrew is also the one who prompted me to write a European list. Indian philosophy is taught in at least two different places in Europe:
I am happy to announce that I will be serving as the Book Review Editor for the Indian Philosophy Blog. I’d like to invite everyone to check out our new Book Review Guidelines. The distinctive thing about book reviews on Continue reading Book reviews for the Indian Philosophy Blog
If anyone is interested, see this post on Malcolm Keating’s blog:http://malcolmkeating.blogspot.com/2015/01/virtual-sanskrit-reading-group.htm Interested people could contact Malcolm on his blog or post comments here.
The DK award for the outstanding doctoral thesis on Sanskrit, for theses submitted in the period 2012-2014, is for a scholar who is based outside South Asia. The deadline is 31st January 2015. Please see the details in the website Continue reading DK award for an outstanding doctoral thesis on Sanskrit
Every two years, the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies grants an award for the “Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies.” The awards alternate between two categories (Theology/Philosophy and History/ Ethnography),
How did comparative philosophy evolve in the last sixty+ years? What is the difference between intercultural philosophy and comparative philosophy? All the answers can be read in the introductory essay to the first number of a new journal dedicated to Continue reading Confluence: A new journal on comparative philosophy
Elisa, Amod, and I often discuss ways to enhance the Blog and better serve our readership (both potential and actual). In conversation with some of our core contributors, here are a few plans we have: 1. A stable “Resources” page Continue reading Some plans and initiatives for the Indian Philosophy Blog
Two young luminaries in our field, David Buchta and Malcolm Keating, have successfully defended their dissertations at Penn and Texas respectively. Let’s all congratulate them! David and Malcolm are, among other things, both Alaṅkārikas (broadly construed), with Malcolm’s dissertation on Continue reading Congratulations to David Buchta and Malcolm Keating
You can read here the list of the 20 semifinalists of the 3quarksdaily prize (see also here) for the best philosophical post of the last year. For a quick summary regarding non-Western philosophy: