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Princeton Lecture Video, “Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna-Based Doctrine of the Harmony of All Religions”

Posted on 7 January 2019 by Andrew Nicholson — 2 Comments ↓

As part of my responsibilities as Visiting Professor at Princeton University for 2018-9, I am inviting guest speakers for a lecture series entitled “New Directions in Indian and Comparative Philosophy.” We are recording each of these lectures to share with Continue reading Princeton Lecture Video, “Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna-Based Doctrine of the Harmony of All Religions”→

Philosophy of action

Posted on 29 December 2018 by elisa freschi — 3 Comments ↓

In case you missed it, I would like to recommend a website on philosophy of action which is a great single go-to page for almost anything related to the topic. It offers links, biographies, encyclopedic entries, essays, videos and learning Continue reading Philosophy of action→

Hyman’s analysis of atheism and some interesting Indian parallels

Posted on 27 November 2018 by elisa freschi — 2 Comments ↓

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→

NDPR review of Jonardon Ganeri’s Attention, Not Self

Posted on 21 November 2018 by Matthew Dasti — No Comments ↓

Review by Sebastian Watzl, University of Oslo Why should we study the philosophical ideas of someone who lived many centuries ago, in a far-away part of the world, and in a highly different cultural context? One reason is to expand one’s Continue reading NDPR review of Jonardon Ganeri’s Attention, Not Self→

9th Coffee Break Conference on Science and Technology in Premodern Asia

Posted on 25 October 2018 by elisa freschi — 2 Comments ↓

The next CBC will take place in Oxford, Wolfson College, 4–6.12.2018. You can learn the names of the speakers and everything else here and in this flyer. General title: Science and Technology in Premodern Asia

Bhavanātha and the move towards theistic Mīmāṃsā

Posted on 20 September 2018 by elisa freschi — 1 Comment ↓

The Mīmāṃsā school of Indian philosophy started as an atheist school since its first extant text, Jaimini’s Mīmāṃsā Sūtra. At a certain point in its history, however, it reinterpreted its atheist arguments as aiming only at a certain conception of Continue reading Bhavanātha and the move towards theistic Mīmāṃsā→

“Indian philosophy” vs. “Buddhist ethics”

Posted on 16 September 2018 by Amod Lele — 13 Comments ↓

It is not especially controversial to say that ethics is a branch of philosophy. I’ve occasionally heard people dispute that claim, but mostly on the grounds that ethics extends beyond philosophy per se, to narrative and the like; few would Continue reading “Indian philosophy” vs. “Buddhist ethics”→

3AM interview with William Edelglass

Posted on 16 September 2018 by Malcolm Keating — No Comments ↓

Another interview at 3AM (previously: 1, 2, 3, 4) with philosophers working in Indian thought, this time with William Edelglass at Marlboro College, Vermont. The interview covers a lot of ground–including his arguments that Buddhist thinkers are best understood as Continue reading 3AM interview with William Edelglass→

Book Announcement: Human Being, Bodily Being by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Posted on 7 August 2018 by Matthew Dasti — 2 Comments ↓

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→

The psychological case for disengaged Buddhism

Posted on 5 August 2018 by Amod Lele — 2 Comments ↓

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→