A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
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)
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
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
From the publisher: Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad offers illuminating new perspectives on contemporary phenomenological theories of body and subjectivity, based on studies of classical Indian texts that deal with bodily subjectivity. Examining four texts from different genres – a medical handbook, epic Continue reading Book Announcement: Human Being, Bodily Being by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
My project on disengaged Buddhism has now been submitted to a journal. It’s undergone several revisions by this point. One of the most important such revisions was suggested unanimously by BU’s magnificent CURA seminar. In an earlier draft had attempted Continue reading The psychological case for disengaged Buddhism
One of the main advantages of dealing with worldviews other than the one you grew up in is the fact that you are exposed to doubts and alternatives. One of such cases regards the nebulous category of religion (to which Continue reading Alternative theisms and atheisms (part 1)
The 50th annual Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) conference will take place in Kraków, Poland June 8-11, 2018. This year’s conference theme is “Power and Creativity.” The conference is hosted by the Pedagogical University of Cracow and co-organized Continue reading Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Conference, Kraków, Poland (June 8-11, 2018)
If you are the sort of person who reads comparative philosophy blogs, you probably remember the widely read New York Times article that Jay Garfield and Bryan Van Norden wrote two years ago, calling for the study of non-Western philosophies Continue reading Making the case for non-Western philosophy
Anyone who is familiar with premodern Indian philosophy written in Sanskrit knows that philosophers were not above using insults in their work. J.M. Verpoorten (2002) has a paper collecting these insults, which include akṛta-buddhi (having an unformed mind), paśu (animal, Continue reading Insults, Slurs, and Other Pejorative Speech
Via Warp, Weft, and Way, from the editor of British Journal of History of Philosophy on its 25th anniversary (bolding is mine): As we move forward, what we would like to promote, above all, is more work on non-Western philosophy, Continue reading British Journal of History of Philosophy and “Non-Western” Philosophy