Monday, December 7, 2015

Śrīvaiṣṇavism, Indian and Comparative Philosophy at my new blog


Śrīvaiṣṇavism and Viśiṣṭādvaita VedāntaThis post discusses the differences between Bhedābheda and Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta.
This post discusses the position of Yāmuna within Vedānta.
You can read a short summary of the panel on Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta at the last WSC here.
What happened at the beginnings of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta? You can read some answers here and here.
The manuscript basis of Vedānta Deśika's Seśvaramīmāṃsā are discussed here.
A summary on the debate about phonemes in Mīmāṃsā and Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta can be read here.

Further Indian Philosophy
A basic bibliography on Jayanta can be read here.
This post offers an overview of Indian linguistics.
Again on Indian linguistics, this post discusses the Mahābhāṣya antecedents of Kumārila's discussion on the sentence.
Cogent evidence (arthāpatti) is discussed here.
Slightly away from my usual concerns, this post discusses substances for the Vātsīputrīyas.

Comparative Philosophy
Deontic logic is discussed here.
This post discusses the category of "West".
Should one study Indian, Chinese, etc. philosophy within the regular curriculum? Read some thoughts here.
Can a debate about ethics be universal if it focuses only on Western ethics? Discuss here. Accordingly, this post discusses the universality of ethics in connection with Hindu bioethics.

Methodology
This post discusses the role of imagination in our reconstructions.
Do you plan to work together? Read this post (and let me know what you think).
Do you also dislike TOC in alphabetic order? Read and comment on this post.

Long sellers: Quotations and Daya Krishna
This post is dedicated to Daya Krishna.
What to read on reuse? You can find some resources here.

Book reviews
This post introduces a series of posts discussing reviews of my book.
Andrew Ollett's review is discussed here.
Taisei Shida's one is discussed here.
For my comments on Hugo David's review, read here.

Interview
You can read here an interview with Shilpa Sumant.

You can find further short posts, Call for papers, quotes, etc., at my new blog.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Epistemology, Śrīvaiṣṇavism and Comparative Philosophy at my new blog

Epistemology
This post deals with the epistemology of public shaming.
This post deals with arthāpatti and inference.
These two posts discuss expert knowledge (as in the case of gemmologists who recognise gems perceptually) in Sanskrit sources (especially Vedānta Deśika and Kumārila and Dharmakīrti).

This post discusses whether one can understand a sentence without believing its content to be the case.
This post discusses language as an instrument of knowledge.
This post discusses sentences and sentence-meaning according to Śabara.
This post discusses words as instruments of knowledge according to Śabara.


Śrīvaiṣṇavism and Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta
A tentative hypothesis about its reconstruction is discussed here.
This post focuses on the three different narratives about the reconstruction of the history of Śrīvaiṣṇavism.
This post discusses the Teṅkalai position about one's absolute love for God.
This post discusses Vedānta Deśika's relation to Nyāya.
This post is dedicated to the ways to know about God.


Comparative Philosophy
Graham Priest explains here why one should study Asian philosophy.
This post discusses whether there are infinite philosophies (African, Australian…) or whether there are just a few philosophical traditions (Greek, German, Indian…).
This post focuses on the issue of narrative as a way to overcome the crudity of pure philosophy (with references to the Islamic world).
This post discusses humans (as) animal beings.

Methodology of translations from Sanskrit
This post focuses on the translation from Sanskrit.
This post discusses the differences between jñā- and vid-.
This post discusses the history of the expression padavākyapramāṇa-.


Long sellers: Quotations and Daya Krishna
This post is dedicated to reuse in the history of art.
This post discusses my reasons for engaging with Daya Krishna's thought.

You can find further short posts, Call for papers, quotes, etc., at my new blog.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

In the last few months I wrote mainly about comparative philosophy, arthāpatti, deontic logic and methodology…

Comparative and Western Philosophy
Why should one engage in non-Western philosophical ideas? The topic is discussed at my new blog, here. On a related line, this post discusses "common sense" and asks whether it is not just "English common sense", this one discusses common prejudices about Indian philosophy, and this post discusses Ankur Barua's discussion on whether there is Philosophy in India. The 172nd Philosophers' Carnival has been, by the way, also hosted on my new blog, here.
This post discusses the McGurk philosophy as an evidence of savikalpa pratyakṣa.

Methodology
As for methodology, this post discusses edited books, for both editors and contributors and this one discusses the methodology of group translations. By the way, in case you are looking for an Indological job, don't miss this post.

Arthāpatti
I recently started a new project on an instrument of knowledge called by Mīmāṃsā authors arthāpatti 'cogent evidence'. You can read about it here, here and here (discussing Kumārila's point of view)

Deontic Logic
As for the deontic logic project, you can read about it here, here (on necessity in Mīmāṃsā) and here (on dyadic conditions).

Great authors
This semester, I am teaching Kumārila's Ślokavārttika. Thus, I get inspired to write this post.
This post discusses a line by Veṅkaṭanātha.
This one discusses Daya Krishna's view of the Nyāyasūtra.

You can find further shorter posts, book announcements, CfP and the like at my new blog.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Deontic logic, Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta and comparative philosophy

Until the end of February, I will be mainly busy working on dentic logic in Mīmāṃsā. You can read about my musings on this topic here (on hermeneutic principles in Mīmāṃsā), here (on prohibitions), here (on the principle of parsimony) and here (on conditional obligations in Mīmāṃsā).
Here you can read some thoughs on comparative philosophy.
You can read here my thoughts on free will in Rāmānuja.
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