Category Archives: Comparative Philosophy

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY IN NEW YORK: Mind, World, and Attention: Themes from Indian and Buddhist Philosophical Theory

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Please see the announcement below for what looks like an exceptional conference happening in late April in New York City. Submitted by Jonardon Ganeri. INDIAN PHILOSOPHY IN NEW YORK Mind, World, and Attention: Themes from Indian and Buddhist Philosophical Theory Continue reading INDIAN PHILOSOPHY IN NEW YORK: Mind, World, and Attention: Themes from Indian and Buddhist Philosophical Theory→

Why bother to look at material from South Asia, when there is so much interesting stuff in “our” tradition?

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From time to time and never by scholars, I am confronted with some variant of this question: “Why bother to look at material from South Asia, when there is so much interesting stuff in our” tradition?”. As examples for the Continue reading Why bother to look at material from South Asia, when there is so much interesting stuff in “our” tradition?→

How can you be yourself if there is no self?

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This post, which is cross-posted on Love of All Wisdom, follows seven posts of mine on that blog that articulate what I take to be a key, often implicit, ideal) underlying much modern Western popular practice. Following Georg Simmel, I Continue reading How can you be yourself if there is no self?→

New issue of Sophia devoted to Indian Philosophy

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Sophia, 57.4 (March -December 2018) has been published. Edited by Christian Coseru, the issue theme is “Engaging Buddhism Philosophically”. Many papers, including Coseru’s own thorough introduction, are devoted to themes arising out of Jay Garfield’s book Engaging Buddhism. Other papers include reflections Continue reading New issue of Sophia devoted to Indian Philosophy→

Hyman’s analysis of atheism and some interesting Indian parallels

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Gavin Hyman explains in his 2007 contribution to Martin’s Cambdride Companion to Atheism as well as in his 2010 A Short History of Atheism that atheism is always the refusal of a given form of theism. In particular, in European Continue reading Hyman’s analysis of atheism and some interesting Indian parallels→

6ys post-doc position in intercultural philosophy (Vienna)

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I apologise for the late posting and hope it might be interesting for some readers. University Assistant (post doc) at the Department of Philosophy Reference number: 8994 The advertised position is located at the Department of Philosophy which is part Continue reading 6ys post-doc position in intercultural philosophy (Vienna)→

So You Want to Teach Some Indian Philosophy? An article on the APA blog by Jonardon Ganeri

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From the APA’s blog: In a previous post, Peter Adamson predicted that non-European philosophies are destined to enter the mainstream of the philosophical profession. He highlighted three avenues of progress. One is that departments will hire more experts, people who know the Continue reading So You Want to Teach Some Indian Philosophy? An article on the APA blog by Jonardon Ganeri→

Special issue of Sophia devoted to postcolonial Indian philosophy

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A new issue of Sophia has been published (volume 57, Issue 3, September 2018), with the special theme The Challenge of Postcolonial Philosophy in India: Too Alien for Contemporary Philosophers, Too Modern for Sanskritists? The issue editors are Elise Coquereau-Saouma and our Continue reading Special issue of Sophia devoted to postcolonial Indian philosophy→