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7The book is an introduction to key concepts of Indian Philosophy, seen from the perspective of the influential school of Pr?bh?kara M?m??s? (flourished from the 7th until the 20th c. AD). It includes the edition and translation of R?m?nuj?c?rya's ??straprameyapariccheda.
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91Review of The Self's Awareness of Itself: Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha's Arguments against the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self, by Alex Watson (review)Philosophy East and West 59 (3): 400-406. 2009.
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46Understanding a Philosophical Text. The Problem of “Meaning” in Jayanta’s Nyāyamañjarī, Book 5In Patrick McAllister & Helmut Krasser (eds.), Jayanta on Buddhist Nominalism, . pp. 251-290. 2017.The authors make an attempt to comparatively analyse some stances of the Old Indian philosophy of language, exemplified by the Medieval Indian author Jayanta, along with the Western tradition of the analytical philosophy of language, and to highlight the differences as well as the similarities. The main focus is on Jayanta's discussion of the meaning vs. reference problem.
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Review of Akṣapāda Pakṣilasvāmin/Gautama Akṣapāda: L'art de conduire la pensée en Inde Ancienne. Nyāya-Sūtra de Gautama Akṣapāda et Nyāya-Bhāṣya d'Akṣapāda Pakṣilasvāmin. Édition, traduction et présentation de Michel Angot (review)Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 66 (2): 479--487. 2012.
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IntroductionIn Elisa Freschi & Philipp André Maas (eds.), Adaptive Reuse of Texts, Ideas and Images in Classical India, Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. Harrassowitz. forthcoming.
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Adaptive Reuse of Texts, Ideas and Images in Classical India Adaptive Reuse of Texts, Ideas and Images in Classical India Adaptive Reuse of Texts, Ideas and Images in Classical India (edited book)Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. Harrassowitz. forthcoming.
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24Periodization and Historiography of Indian Philosophy. Edited with an introduction by Eli Franco (review)Journal of the American Oriental Society 135 (1): 153-156. 2021.Periodization and Historiography of Indian Philosophy. Edited with an introduction by Eli Franco. Vienna: De Nobili, 2013. Pp. viii + 388. € 40.
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1Systematising an absent category: discourses on “nature‘ in Prābhākara Mīmād msāSupplemento Della Rivista di Studi Orientali 88 (2): 45--54. 2015.
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26Quotations, References, etc. A Glance on the Writing Habits of a Late MīmāṃsakaJournal of Indian Philosophy 43 (2-3): 219-255. 2015.Rāmānujācārya’s Tantrarahasya, a philosophical treatise mainly dedicated to the hermeneutics and epistemology of the Pūrva Mīmāṃsā School, might be considered hardly more than a jigsaw of reused passages, since one third of it has a direct source, and a further third has its roots in interlanguage usage. It is thus a perfect case study for investigating the compositional habits of philosophical authors in pre-modern śāstra literature. The article analyses the formal aspects of textual reuse by R…Read more
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Freedom Because of Duty. The Problem of Agency in MīmāṃsāIn Edwin Bryant & Matthew Dasti (eds.), Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 137--163. 2013.
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Adaptive Reuse of Texts, Ideas and Images in Classical India (edited book)Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. Harrassowitz. forthcoming.
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1Review of James Benson's translation and edition of Mahādeva Vedāntin's Mīmāṃsānyāyasaṅgraha (review)Wiener Zeitschrift für Die Kunde Südasiens 54 236--238. 2011.
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5Indian PhilosophersIn Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 419-428. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Action as Evidence for the Existence of a Self: Effort, Mental Acts, Motion, and Cause Action in the Context of Linguistic Use: Basic Acts, Effort, Production, Aim, and Reasons Moral Actions Concluding Remarks References Further reading.
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Bhād td tamīmād msā and Nyāya on Veda and TraditionIn Federico Squarcini (ed.), Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia, Firenze University Press and Munshiram Manoharlal. pp. 287-323. 2005.
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67Plant lives: Borderline beings in indian traditions (review)Philosophy East and West 61 (2): 380-385. 2011.
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Reusing, Adapting, Distorting. Veṅkaṭanātha's reuse of Rāmānuja's commentary ad BS 1.1.1In Elisa Freschi & Philipp André Maas (eds.), Proceedings of the Panel on Adaptive Reuse at the Dot Conference, Münster, September 2013, Dmg. forthcoming.
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75Facing the boundaries of epistemology: Kumārila on error and negative cognition (review)Journal of Indian Philosophy 38 (1): 39-48. 2010.Kumārila’s commitment to the explanation of cognitive experiences not confined to valid cognition alone, allows a detailed discussion of border-line cases (such as doubt and error) and the admittance of absent entities as separate instances of cognitive objects. Are such absent entities only the negative side of positive entities? Are they, hence, fully relative (since a cow could be said to be the absent side of a horse and vice versa)? Through the analysis of a debated passage of the Ślokavārt…Read more
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71Mīmāṃsā deontic logic: proof theory and applicationsIn Hans De Nivelle (ed.), Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, Springer. pp. 323--338. 2015.
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Bhāṭṭamīmāṃsā and Nyāya on Veda and TraditionIn Federico Squarcini (ed.), Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia, Firenze University Press and Munshiram Manoharlal. pp. 287--323. 2005.
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Review of Kei Kataoka, Kumārila on Truth, Omniscience and Killing. A Critical Edition of Mīmāṃsā-Ślokavārttika ad 1.1.2 (Codanāsūtra) (review)International Journal of Asian Studies 10 (1): 90--94. 2013.
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Jayanta on the Validity of Sacred Texts. Annotated English Translation and StudySouth Asian Classical Studies 161 1--55. 2012.
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Desidero Ergo Sum: The Subject as the Desirous One in MīmāṃsāRivista di Studi Orientali 80 51-61. 2007.
Areas of Specialization
Indian Philosophy |
Philosophy of Religion |
Philosophy of Language |
Deontic Logic |
Testimony |