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Bhoja’s comments on Adhyeyam–a Guest Post by Satyanarayana Hegde

Posted on 6 January 2017 by Matthew Dasti — No Comments ↓

In the second pariccheda of Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇālaṅkāra (1025 CE) titled śabdālaṅkāravivecanam, Bhoja defines at 2.138 the śabdālaṅkāra Adhyeyam (Śarmā and Paṇśīkar 1934:304): yadvidhau ca niṣedhe ca vyutpattereva kāraṇam tadadhyeyam vidustena lokayātrā pravartate Bhoja at Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇālaṅkāra 2.139 divides Adhyeyam into six subtypes-kāvya, Continue reading Bhoja’s comments on Adhyeyam–a Guest Post by Satyanarayana Hegde→

Interpretation vs. Explication II: choosing between Truth and Objectivity

Posted on 29 December 2016 by Shyam Ranganathan — 5 Comments ↓

Thanks to Elisa Freschi and Malcolm Keating for prompting me to post about interpretation and explication. In the previous post, titled “Interpretation vs. Explication I: background (Truth and Objectivity)” I set out the logical distinctions we need in view to Continue reading Interpretation vs. Explication II: choosing between Truth and Objectivity→

Buddhism and Phenomenology

Posted on 17 December 2016 by elisa freschi — No Comments ↓

Victoria Lysenko has been so nice as to alert me about a recent workshop on Buddhism Phenomenology, to which very interesting authorities on both topics (ranging from Dan Zahavi to “our” Christian Coseru) contributed. They realised an interactive poster through Continue reading Buddhism and Phenomenology→

Book Review of An Introduction to Indian Philosophy by Roy W. Perrett (Reviewed by Matthew R. Dasti)

Posted on 6 December 2016 by Ethan Mills — 11 Comments ↓

Roy W. Perrett. An Introduction to Indian Philosophy. 249pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. $34.99 (paperback). When introducing the wide-range of Indian philosophy to a new audience, there have been two major approaches: the schools approach and the topics approach. Continue reading Book Review of An Introduction to Indian Philosophy by Roy W. Perrett (Reviewed by Matthew R. Dasti)→

An Interview with Nilanjan Das

Posted on 5 December 2016 by Malcolm Keating — 2 Comments ↓

Nilanjan Das is currently a post-doctoral fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, but he will be moving to Shanghai in September of 2017 to take up his post as Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the philosophy department of NYU-Shanghai. Das works primarily Continue reading An Interview with Nilanjan Das→

Again on the non-sentience of herbs in Indian Philosophy

Posted on 2 December 2016 by elisa freschi — 2 Comments ↓

I have already argued elsewhere that I am firmly convinced that South Asian philosophers upheld that plants are non-sentient, possibly against a common belief in their sentience.

Workshop on Rasa Theory: February 2017

Posted on 27 November 2016 by Malcolm Keating — No Comments ↓

A bit of a last-minute announcement (which readers may have already seen elsewhere). A few months ago, Mrinal Kaul mentioned that Manipal University has established a new Center for Religious Studies and would be hosting a workshop on rasa theory. Continue reading Workshop on Rasa Theory: February 2017→

Analytical Philosophy of Religion with Indian categories

Posted on 25 November 2016 by elisa freschi — 5 Comments ↓

As part of my attempts to go beyond my confort zone, Wednesday and Thursday last week I enjoyed two days of full immersion in the Analytical Philosophy of Religion. In fact, the conference I was attending was about the ontological Continue reading Analytical Philosophy of Religion with Indian categories→

Philosophical and historical uses together

Posted on 20 November 2016 by Amod Lele — 8 Comments ↓

Cross-posted on Love of All Wisdom. Last time I examined Andrew Ollett’s distinction between “decision-oriented” texts like Kant’s Grounding and “capacity-oriented” texts like Buddhaghosa’s Visuddhimagga, and the ways in which that distinction might suggest a “philosophical” versus a “historical” approach Continue reading Philosophical and historical uses together→

Decision and capacity, philosophical and historical

Posted on 6 November 2016 by Amod Lele — No Comments ↓

Cross-posted at Love of All Wisdom. Andrew Ollett has recently taken up the point I made earlier this year that Buddhist ethics, in distinction from modern analytical ethics, is not primarily concerned with decision procedure. He identifies Indian non-analytic approaches Continue reading Decision and capacity, philosophical and historical→