A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
[Posted on behalf of Monima Chadha] AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR ASIAN AND COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY ASACP CONFERENCE 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS The ASACP 2017 Conference will be held from 10-12 July 2017 at Deakin University, Deakin Downtown 727 Collins St, Melbourne, Australia. Continue reading ASCAP Conference 2017
Our own Amod Lele will be giving a talk at a conference organized by Pierre-Julien Harter at the University of Utah, on April 21-22. The other philosophers there, and their talks may also be of interest to readers of this Continue reading Upcoming talks on Buddhism in Utah April 21-22
Please see the delightful website below for an argument for why undergraduates have good reasons to pursue philosophy for pragmatic as well as humanistic reasons. https://philosophyisagreatmajor.com/ It might be useful for blog members who are professors in the US, as advising Continue reading Philosophy is a great major
Journal of Indian Philosophy 45.2 is out. Asian Philosophy 27.1 contains an article by Roy Perrett on the problem of other minds in Yogācāra Buddhism. Hegel Bulletin has an article responding to Hegel’s Criticism of Hinduism, largely focused on the problem Continue reading A handful of recent articles
[The following is a guest post by Yigal Bronner and Andrew Ollett.] We would like to introduce the readers of this blog to the Pandit Project at www.panditproject.org. This is a new resource for students of the intellectual traditions of Continue reading Introducing the Pandit Project
A couple of years ago, I was walking through a library when I noticed a Festschrift for Eliot Deutsch called The Aesthetic Turn, edited by Roger Ames. Ames’ short introduction tells the history of the early East West conferences at Continue reading Snapshot of an earlier era
Sophia 55.4 is entirely devoted to Indian philosophy, with a number of interesting contributions by excellent scholars, including blog contributor Anand Vaidya. It is devoted to Bimal K Matilal, 25 years after his passing. Full contents here: http://link.springer.com/journal/11841/55/4?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals
By Charles Goodman http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/studies-in-buddhist-philosophy/
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
This issue is pretty light on Indian philosophy, as its theme is “Joseph Chan’s Confucian Perfectionism.” But it does feature Chris Framarin’s article “Renunciation, Pleasure, and the Good Life in the Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads” and David Nowakowski’s review of Rethinking the Buddha: Continue reading New issue of Philosophy East and West (67.1, January 2017)