A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
Happy belated Solstice to all! I hope everyone is having a good holiday. Thanks to Elisa Freschi and Malcolm Keating for prompting me to post about interpretation and explication. The distinction between interpretation and explication to my knowledge has not Continue reading Interpretation vs. Explication I: background (Truth and Objectivity)
I have a backlog of books for review for Philosophy East and West. If you are interested in writing a review for any of the books below, please contact me through my email address. If we don’t know each other, Continue reading Available books for review for Philosophy East and West
On Sunday I was reading Sundarapāṇḍya’s Nītidviṣaṣṭika, an interesting collection of āryā verses on the subject of nīti (something like: how to act in the world), and later on caught up (very belatedly) on part of the debate occasioned by Continue reading Nīti and the two ways of “using” texts
It looks like no one has yet announced the following job opening on the blog: Posting Number: 0835837 Position Title: Open Rank Appointment Type:Definition Faculty – Open Rank Working Title (if applicable): Assistant or Associate Professor Department Philosophy Department Salary Continue reading Assistant or Associate Professor of Buddhist Philosophy, UNM
The American Council of Learned Societies and the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation have announced a series of fellowships for scholars at all levels from dissertation research to senior-level scholars, and grants to help endow new faculty chairs in Buddhist studies. Continue reading Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
In a previous blog (August 2014, ‘Second Day at the IABS: Pramāṇavāda’), Elisa kindly gave a summary of the paper I gave on ‘Contrasting Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika and Buddhist Explanations of Attention’ at the Vienna IABS conference. I’ve written up the paper Continue reading Contrasting Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika and Buddhist Explanations of Attention
Volume 44, Issue 4, September 2016 Please use this link to see the full contents.
I have a small backlog of books for review for Philosophy East and West. If anyone is interested in writing a review, please send me an email expressing interest, and if we don’t know each other, please kindly send me Continue reading Books for Review for Philosophy East and West
. . . we ask those who sincerely believe that it does make sense to organize our discipline entirely around European and American figures and texts to pursue this agenda with honesty and openness. We therefore suggest that any department Continue reading Garfield and Van Norden in the NYT
As the Book Review Editor for this blog, I invite readers to submit their own reviews (see: https://indianphilosophyblog.org/book-reviews/). To encourage interest in book reviews, I’m trying something a little different: brief book notes, or what you might call a “review Continue reading Brief Book Notes on Beckwith, Carpenter, and Siderits/Katsura, by Ethan Mills