A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
Malcolm was just hired by the Yale-NUS College.Congratulations to Malcolm! If you have a minute, maybe you could tell our readers what Yale-NUS is like or how you expect life to be over there. [Note: this post was slightly edited Continue reading Congratulations to Malcolm Keating
After many years, I am sort of fed up with having to answer the question above, and this is also why I had not read the essay by Barua (bearing the title Is there ‘Philosophy’ in India? An Exercise in Continue reading “Is there Philosophy in India?” and what this question tells us, an essay by Ankur Barua
The hardest part, I find, about the philosophical vocabulary of Sanskrit is not its enormity or its technicality, but the fact that it includes a couple of “basic” or even “common-sense” words whose import, in any given context, can be Continue reading Tricky words: prāp-
This is somewhat related to Matt Dasti’s last call-for-papers post, but more geared towards philosophy colleagues, not philosophy courses. If you’re like me, you occasionally have peers saying that they’re interested in Indian philosophy but overwhelmed, and don’t know where Continue reading Getting Started in Indian Philosophy: Query for Readers
Posted on behalf of Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad: [Please note that Ram is especially looking looking for a paper on Hindu Monasticism] Call for Papers: ‘Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective’ Group, American Academy of Religion AAR Conference, Atlanta Continue reading Call for Papers: ‘Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective’ Group, American Academy of Religion
Posted on behalf of Brian Bruya: CALL FOR PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS Including for a Special Workshop on How to Incorporate Asian Texts into Traditional Philosophy Courses 2016 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association January 6-9, 2016, Washington, Continue reading Call for Papers and Panel Proposals: Including for a Special Workshop on How to Incorporate Asian Texts into Traditional Philosophy Courses
Friends, following the practice of Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, I try to make a point to personally contact qualified reviewers for work on Indian philosophy for Philosophy East and West, while avoiding open calls for reviews. That said, I am in possession Continue reading Soliciting reviews for Philosophy East and West
Let us take the abstract form of a Vedic prescription: (A.) Whoever desires to achieve something should sacrifice It is easy for an objector to go on and argue as follows: A Śūdra (i.e., a member of the lowest class) Continue reading Deontic rules at work: A case of conflict
On the Indian Philosophy Blog, commenter Anthony S asked an important and difficult question: what are good resources for thinking through Indian political philosophy? . I’m interested not so much in comparative philosophy as comparative political thought/theory, specifically in terms Continue reading Is there Indian political philosophy?
One of the many things I’ve been learning from the special issue of South Asian History and Culture called Discipline, Sect, Lineage and Community is that 16th-century intellectuals like Vyāsatīrtha and Appayya Dīkṣita had an unprecented awareness not just of Continue reading The Appayya One-Two