A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
On behalf of Karl-Stephan Bouthillette, main conference organizer: On Friday 22 July, LMU (Munich) welcomed Prof. Ujjwala Jha and Prof. V.N. Jha, two well known Indian Nyāya and Mīmāṃsā scholars, to discuss the Yoga Sūtras. It is a rare event Continue reading Recent conference on Yoga at Munich
An important historical shift in Indian aesthetics is from concern with the character as the locus of emotional responses (anubhāvas) to the spectator or “audience” as the locus. Andrew Ollett provides a concise reflection on that shift. In his Ten Continue reading Andrew Ollett’s remarks on the location of affective responses
Please see the following link for a new PhD program that combines philosophy of mind/cognitive science with an investigation of first-person methodologies of meditational practice. Funding is available for students. http://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb05philosophie/files/2013/04/MAP.pdf
I’d like to call your attention to a new job opening for an endowed position at Stony Brook University, the Mattoo Chair in Classical Indic Humanities. Click on the link below for details, and please feel free to to notify Continue reading Job Announcement: Mattoo Chair in Classical Indic Humanities
Over at Daily Nous, Justin Weinberg points to a website, created by Derek Bowman, that is hosting a series of interviews with “free range” philosophers, people who are academically trained as philosophers but have chosen to do something else with Continue reading Interview with a “free range” Indian philosopher
Over at History of Philosophy without any Gaps, Peter Adamson, with Jonardon Ganeri, has been running a series on Indian Philosophy. The last few weeks have focused on Mīmāṃsā, and the IPB’s Elisa Freschi has been assisting with the episodes. Continue reading Quick Note – History of Philosophy Podcast on Mīmāṃsā
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
At the beginning of the month, there was an interdisciplinary conference in Kanazawa, Japan–the International Conference on Ethno-Epistemology – Culture, Language, and Methodology. Jonardon Ganeri gave a keynote presentation, “Pluralism about Epistemic Cultures” and Anand Vaidya, along with Purushottama Billimoria, gave Continue reading Epistemology and Comparative Philosophy in Confluence and the APA Blog
Dear readers of the Indian Philosophy Blog, I am delighted to share with all of you that we have been able to establish a Centre for Religious Studies (CRS) in Manipal University. As the coordinator of this centre I look Continue reading News from Manipal University (a guest post by Mrinal Kaul)
Debajyoti Gangopadhyay: Let us now turn towards the concept of śūnyatā in Buddhist Philosophy. Śūnya had been famously advocated by Nāgārjuna as going even beyond the catuṣkoṭi —the four possible state of affairs advocated by the Buddha, so that given Continue reading Interview with Mark Siderits, a guest post by Debajyoti Gangopadhyay* (part 2)