A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
In her recent post on theories of sentence meaning in Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā, Elisa talked about a possible “contemporary Prābhākara” viewpoint about sentence meaning: …a contemporary Prābhākara might suggest that some preliminary understanding of word-meaning is immediately denoted by each word, Continue reading A contemporary Prābhākara contextualism
My department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is currently hiring for a tenure-track position in Asian Religions. I’ve posted the basic information below. For more information, including directions for how to apply, please see the job ad. Please Continue reading Tenure-Track Position in Asian Religions (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Words (for the Bhāṭṭa Mīmāṃsā authors) get connected into a complex sentence meaning through proximity (sannidhi), semantic fitness (yogyatā) and syntactic expectancy (ākāṅkṣā). These three criteria correspond to the requirement of being uttered one after the other with no intervening Continue reading Proximity, semantic fitness and syntactic expectancy as criteria for the sentence meaning
Buddhist texts frequently stress the liberating power of prajñā or paññā, metaphysical insight. It is one of the three major components of the path in early texts, one of the six perfections in Mahāyāna. To know the truth about existence Continue reading Unconscious illusions
One image I’ve encountered in Sanskrit texts on language is that of the arrow standing in for the capacity of words. I think the first time (in secondary literature) I saw this was in K.K. Raja’s Indian Theories of Meaning, Continue reading Words are arrows
I received the following announcement from Karen O’Brien-Kop and I am glad to advertise it, also because several readings will be conducted by long-term colleagues and friends of mine, including also “our” Alex Watson. You can read Karen’s very interesting Continue reading Sanskrit Reading Room at Soas (London)
At the beginning of January, I traveled from Singapore to Kolkata to join a group of scholars from around India as well as the US and New Zealand–this was for a seminar at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture that Continue reading International Seminar at RMIC, Gol Park, Kolkata
The dates of the next Nalanda dialogue are: February the 22nd ton 24th. I recently received the following announcement about it (unedited):
From Warp, Weft, and Way–I imagine that the same remarks would apply to philosophers here reading the Indian Philosophy Blog, so I quote in full. Note that the deadline for submission is 15 February 2018. Hello, fellow philosophers! This is Continue reading Eastern APA Submissions in Asian Philosophy
Submitted by Melanie Johnson-Moxley: PHIL 4810/7810 PHILOSOPHY OF INDIA UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA Instructor: Dr. Bina Gupta, Curators’ Research Professor Emerita of Philosophy Semester: 4-week online summer course, starts June 4 and ends June 30, 2018. Course Description: “Indian Philosophy” refers to Continue reading Notice of online course in Indian philosophy