A group blog of scholars exploring Indian 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:
…among the ones selected at 3quarksdaily, here. In case you were wondering, there are at least three posts dealing with non-Western philosophy, namely: No. 10, Veṅkaṭanātha’s contribution to Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta (thank you very much, K., for suggesting it!) No. 17, Continue reading You can now vote the best philosophical blogpost UPDATED
…of the last year (that is, written after November the 9th 2013) here, before November the 17th. Unfortunately, only the 100 most voted posts will be evaluated. It would be nice if a post dealing with non-Western philosophy could be Continue reading You can nominate your favourite philosophical blogpost
The 169th Philosophers’ Carnival is online! Among several other interesting things, it has some lines on the interpretation of an alien Philosophy and on the Skholiast‘s contribution to the “doing philosophy in a polycentric world” debate (about which see also Continue reading The 169th Philosophers’ Carnival
I just found out through Philpapers about a forthcoming article by “our” Stephen Harris, who perhaps might want to elaborate a little bit more about it here? The title is: Suffering and the Shape of Well-Being in Buddhist Ethics and Continue reading Stephen Harris on Suffering and Buddhist Ethics
The 168th version of the Philosophers’ Carnival, with a link to Anand Vaidya’s blogpost on modality in Indian philosophy, can be read here. Thanks to the reader(s) who pointed to Anand’s post! Keep on alerting the philosophers’ carnival website about Continue reading 168th Philosophers’ Carnival
Jonardon Ganeri has recently posted an online blueprint for an “Institute for Cosmopolitan Philosophy in a Culturally Polycentric World”. He suggests an institute with autonomy from the traditional academy’s disciplinary and area-studies boundaries, structured as a network spanning different cultural Continue reading Towards an Institute for Cosmopolitan Philosophy
Our colleague Christian Coseru today posted a piece to the New APPS blog entitled “Philosophy’s Western Bias and What Can Be Done About It.” I’m curious to see what kind of reaction he receives. In my experience, professional philosophers in Continue reading Christian Coseru on “Philosophy’s Western Bias”