Towards an Institute for Cosmopolitan Philosophy

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→

Philosophers’ Carnival No. 167

The 167th edition of the Philosophers’ Carnival can be found here! It includes also a post by Eric Schwitzgebel on the unavoidability of studying Chinese philosophy and a the post by Amod Lele (on this blog) on the “double standard” Continue reading Philosophers’ Carnival No. 167→

CfP: Comparison and Comparative Method—The sixth Coffee Break Conference

The Coffee Break Conference began as an attempt to encourage the kind of critical and open-ended discussions that have unfortunately been confined to short coffee breaks at most academic conferences. Coffee Break Conferences give scholars the opportunity to critically discuss Continue reading CfP: Comparison and Comparative Method—The sixth Coffee Break Conference→

The “What’s everybody up to lately?” thread

We (Elisa, Amod and I) thought it might be nice to occasionally ask our contributors and readers to share what they’ve been thinking about lately, whether research-related, for conferences, teaching, blogging, organizational or administrative projects, or merely musings on subjects Continue reading The “What’s everybody up to lately?” thread→

One God, one Śāstra — A panel for the WSC 2015

One God, one śāstra: philosophical developments towards and within Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta between Nāthamuni and Veṅkaṭanātha In the case of the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta school, one has the advantage of having some basic historical elements to judge about the development of the Continue reading One God, one Śāstra — A panel for the WSC 2015→