A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
For longer than I’ve been alive, restaurants in North America that call themselves “Chinese” have typically served dishes that would not be recognized in China: chop suey, sweet and sour pork. This North American Chinese food is not one of Continue reading The significance of General Tso’s chicken (and pizza)
I received the Call for Abstracts below from Scott Stroud (University of Texas at Austin). He added, “The call for abstracts is deliberately wide-ranging, since there are so many useful angles to consider here. Approaches from a range of different Continue reading Call for Abstracts: Pragmatism and India
The great Buddhist poet Aśvaghoṣa famously tells the story of the Buddha’s father, the king, who tried to keep his son as an heir rather than a monk by isolating him from all the bad things in the world. Of Continue reading The gap is not glorious
Readers, I’m delighted to announce that my first book is officially scheduled for publication! It’ll come out in November but you can preorder it now, and I would really like to encourage you to do so if you’re interested: preorder Continue reading Announcing my book: After Anger
Here is a message from Scott Stroud (University of Texas at Austin) about a new special issue of the journal Dewey Studies focused on John Dewey’s pragmatism and India. The first special issue of a journal dedicated to exploring John Continue reading John Dewey’s Pragmatism and India (Special Issue of Dewey Studies)
Karin Meyers’s work on the “damned topics” of Buddhist philosophy is most powerful on the topic of rebirth. Because that’s the place where there’s actually some reasonably powerful evidence for the “damned topic”. Where I think she goes too far Continue reading You still have to naturalize karma
American University philosopher Karin Meyers made an important contribution to Buddhist philosophical studies with her 2016 essay “The damned topics of Buddhist philosophy“. The essay (available free online) has never been formally published, though it clearly deserves to be: when Continue reading On the damned topics of Buddhist philosophy
My father’s memorial service was last weekend. The event was wonderful, bringing together friends and family I hadn’t seen in decades. It was heartwarming to see colleagues, neighbours, Canadian family, Indian family, American family share their fond recollections of him. Continue reading Passages of death and hope
We recently received the following information from Scott Stroud (University of Texas at Austin) on behalf of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP). This prize is an exciting way to recognize the some of the many philosophical Continue reading Ambedkar Prize Established by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP)
Unlike “progressive” Americans who embrace race, the caste reformer B.R. Ambedkar envisioned a world where race/caste distinctions were annihilated – and specifically by mixing, by intermarriage. The view of racial purity shared by the mainstream American left and right – Continue reading “The future will belong to the mestiza”