A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
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
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