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14Philosophy as Therapeia (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.'Empty are the words of that philosopher who offers therapy for no human suffering. For just as there is no use in medical expertise if it does not give therapy for bodily diseases, so too there is no use in philosophy if it does not expel the suffering of the soul.' The philosopher Epicurus gave famous voice to a conception of philosophy as a cure or remedy for the maladies of the human soul. What has not until now received attention is just how prominent an idea this has been across a whole sp…Read more
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14Semantic Powers: Meaning and the Means of Knowing in Classical Indian PhilosophyOxford University Press. 1999.The author defends a conception of language as essentially a means for the reception of knowledge through testimony. He finds this account in the work of classical Indian philosophers of language, and presents a detailed analysis of their theories.
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14Mental Time Travel and Attention: Replies to CommentatorsAustralasian Philosophical Review 1 (4): 450-455. 2017.
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13Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from the Buddha to TagoreIn James M. Ambury, Tushar Irani & Kathleen Wallace (eds.), Philosophy as a way of life: historical, contemporary, and pedagogical perspectives, Wiley. 2020-10-05.The author commences with a discussion on the connection between spiritual exercises and aestheticism. Acquiring knowledge of a certain privileged sort is the key spiritual exercise is the fundamental activity in what Hadot described as a “return to the self.” The section on philosophy and therapy talks about “spiritual exercise” as a practice of discrimination which leads to a “return to the self” in the form of the self's isolation from the perceptual world. The author then discusses returning…Read more
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13Inwardness: an outsider's guideColumbia University Press. 2021.Where do we look when we look inward? In what sort of space does our inner life take place? Augustine said that to turn inward is to find oneself in a library of memories, while the Indian Buddhist tradition holds that we are self-illuminating beings casting light onto a world of shadows. And a disquieting set of dissenters has claimed that inwardness is merely an illusion-or worse, a deceit. Jonardon Ganeri explores philosophical reflections from many of the world's intellectual cultures, ancie…Read more
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11Indian PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.As is the case with most pre‐modern philosophers of India, very little historical information is available about Bhartṛ‐hari. There are many interesting legends, some turned into extensive plays and poems, current about him. However, it is impossible to determine on their basis even whether there was only one philosopher called Bhartṛ‐hari. The appellation “philosopher” could unquestionably be applied to the author or authors of at least two Sanskrit works that are commonly ascribed to Bhartṛ‐ha…Read more
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10Indian Logic: A ReaderPsychology Press. 2001.The articles in this volume are all landmarks in the evolution of modern studies in Indian logic. The book traces the development of modern studies in Indian logic from their beginnings right up to the latest work.
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7Ethno-Epistemology: New Directions for Global Epistemology (edited book)Routledge. 2020.This volume features new perspectives on the implications of cross-linguistic and cultural diversity for epistemology. It brings together philosophers, linguists, and scholars working on knowledge traditions to advance work in epistemology that moves beyond the Anglophone sphere. The first group of chapters provide evidence of cross-linguistic or cultural diversity relevant to epistemology and discuss its possible implications. These essays defend epistemic pluralism based on Sanskrit data as a …Read more
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7Fernando Pessoa: imagination and the selfOxford University Press. 2024.Fernando Pessoa, whose time in Durban briefly overlapped with that of Mahatma Gandhi, was well-read in Indian literature, having in his library the poetry of Rabindranatha Tagore and books about Indian philosophy. He discusses the Upaniṣads and what he calls "the Indian ideal". Indeed, from in of his more esoteric writings it is possible to identify a new variety of panpsychism in the spirit of Coleridge and Whitman.
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5Mind, language, and world: the collected essays of Bimal Krishna MatilalOxford University Press. 2002.On different aspects of Indian philosophy; chiefly on Nayāya and Buddhist philosophies.
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4HinduismIn Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Works cited.
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4The Imperfect Reality of PersonsIn Christian Coseru (ed.), Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality: Essays in Honor of Mark Siderits, Springer. pp. 87-104. 2023.In this chapter, my interest is primarily in the thought of the great Ābhidhārmika Buddhist intellectual Vasubandhu (c. 360 CE), author of the compendious Abhidharmakośabhāṣya. He has famously been described by Mark Siderits as a reductionist about the self, influenced by the seminal work of Derek Parfit. What I will argue is that the identification needs to be handled with care.
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4Ganeri: Indian Philosophy, 4-Vol. Set (edited book)Routledge. 2016.The learned editor of this new four-volume collection from Routledge argues that its subject matter is ‘a vast—and vastly undersurveyed—body of inquiry into the most fundamental problems of philosophy. As the broader discipline of philosophy continues to evolve into a genuinely international field, "Indian Philosophy" stands for an unquantifiably precious part of the human intellectual biosphere. For those who are interested in the way in which culture influences structures of thought, for those…Read more
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2Dārā Shukoh and the transmission of the Upaniṣads to IslamIn William Sweet (ed.), Migrating Texts and Traditions, University of Ottawa Press. pp. 177-188. 2012.
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1Philosophical modernities: polycentricity and early modernity in IndiaIn Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Philosophical Traditions, Cambridge University Press. 2014.
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1Philosophy as a Practice of EstrangementTHE JOURNAL OF ASIAN PHILOSOPHY IN KOREA 34 287-309. 2010.
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The ritual roots of moral reasonIn Kevin Schilbrack (ed.), Thinking through rituals: philosophical perspectives, Routledge. pp. 207--33. 2004.
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Philosophy as Therapeia: Volume 66 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.'Empty are the words of that philosopher who offers therapy for no human suffering. For just as there is no use in medical expertise if it does not give therapy for bodily diseases, so too there is no use in philosophy if it does not expel the suffering of the soul.' The philosopher Epicurus gave famous voice to a conception of philosophy as a cure or remedy for the maladies of the human soul. What has not until now received attention is just how prominent an idea this has been across a whole sp…Read more
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