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ItemAbsence: An Indo-Analytic Inquiry (vol 55, pg 491, 2016)(SPRINGER, 2016-12)
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ItemHugh Silverman-in memoriam(SPRINGER, 2013-12)
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ItemJ. J. C Smart (1920-2012): Remembering Jack(SPRINGER, 2013-04)
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ItemEditorial: Bimal Krishna Matilal, 1935-1991(Springer, 2016)This special issue of the journal is dedicated to the memory of the late and much respected Professor Bimal Krishna Matilal to mark the 25th anniversary of his passing. At the time of his death, Matilal held the Spalding Chair of Eastern Religion and Ethics in All Souls pf the Faithful Departed College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain.
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ItemGlobalisation: Good, Bad, and the Ugly; casualties of Indian Liberalisation - a Postcolonial Perspective(Levant Books, 2017)The paper discusses the views of three economists, Amartya Sen, Pranab Barhdan and Partha Dasgupta on the liberalization of the Indian economy, which has brought severe changes since the 1990s. The paper argues that despite this liberalist move there are multiple problems and injustices across the society remain unanswered, particularly in the areas of education, literacy, health and medical care, gender inequities, unemployment, farmers' suicide, and other societal challenges (including the entrenched caste hierarchy). What counts as the index of growth is a matter of some debate among the economists being discussed, but the real .concern is the increasing gap between the rich and the poor. Case studies are entertained to explicate the ramifications of globalisation and its impact on Indian economy.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAbsence: An Indo-Analytic Inquiry(Springer, 2016-12-01)Two of the most important contributions that Bimal Krishna Matilal made to comparative philosophy are his (1968) doctoral dissertation The Navya-Nyāya Doctrine of Negation: The Semantics and Ontology of Negative Statements in Navya-Nyāya Philosophy and his (1986) classic: Perception: An Essay on Classical Indian Theories of Knowing. In this essay, we aim to carry forward the work of Bimal K. Matilal by showing how ideas in classical Indian philosophy concerning absence and perception are relevant to recent debates in Anglo-analytic philosophy. In particular, we focus on the recent debate in the philosophy of perception centering on the perception of absence. In her Seeing Absence, Anya Farennikova (2013) argues for the thesis that we literally see absences. Her thesis is quite novel within the contexts of the traditions that she engages: analytical philosophy of perception, phenomenology, and cognitive neuroscience. In those traditions there is hardly any exploration of the epistemology of absence. By contrast, this is not the case in classical Indian philosophy where the debate over the ontological and epistemological status of absence (abhāva) is longstanding and quite engaging. In what follows, we engage Farennikova’s arguments, and those of John-Rémy Martin and Jérome Dokic in their (2013) response to her work. Using the work of Matilal (1968, 1986), Bilimoria (2015) and Shaw (2016) we show that there are several engaging ideas that can be taken from Indian philosophy into the terrain explored by Farennikova, and Martin & Dokic. Our aim is to provide an updated comparative engagement on absence and its perception for the purposes of enhancing future discussions within global philosophy. However, we do not aim to do this merely by focusing on the history of primary texts or on twentieth century commentary on primary texts. Instead, we hope to show that the living tradition of Indian philosophy that Matilal embodied carries forward in his students and colleagues as they revive, revise, and extend Indian philosophy.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableIndian Ethics: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges(Routledge, 2017-04-27)This is the first such systematic study of the spectrum of moral reflections from India, engaging a critical cross-cultural perspective and attending to modern secular sensibilities. Indian ethics is one of the great traditions of moral thought in world philosophy whose insights have influenced thinkers in early Greece, Europe, Asia, and the New World. This is the first such systematic study of the spectrum of moral reflections from India, engaging a critical cross-cultural perspective and attending to modern secular sensibilities. The volume explores the scope and limits of Indian ethical thinking, reflecting on the interpretation and application of its teachings and practices in the comparative and contemporary contexts. The chapters chart orthodox and heterodox debates, from early classical Hindu texts to Buddhist, Jaina, Yoga, and Gandhian ethics. The range of issues includes: life-values and virtues, karma and dharma, evil and suffering, renunciation and enlightenment- and extends to questions of human rights and justice, ecology and animal ethics, nonviolence and democracy. Ramifications for rethinking ethics in a postmodern and global era are also explored. Indian Ethics offers an invaluable resource for students of philosophy, religion, human sciences and cultural studies, and to those interested in South Asian responses to moral dilemmas in the postcolonial era.
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ItemEditorial: Bimal Krishna Matilal, 1935-1991(Springer, 2016)This special issue of the journal is dedicated to the memory of the late and much respected Professor Bimal Krishna Matilal to mark the 25th anniversary of his passing. At the time of his death, Matilal held the Spalding Chair of Eastern Religion and Ethics in All Souls pf the Faithful Departed College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain.
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ItemThinking Negation in Early Hinduism and Classical Indian Philosophy(SPRINGER BASEL AG, 2017-03)
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ItemThe Meaningful "End" of God, Faith, and Scripture(SUNY Press, 2017-03-15)For the purposes of this short tribute I shall take up four salient insights and the ensuing attempted reformulations that the late and much celebrated Professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith had to offer to not only the discipline of Study of Religions, but also more specifically to the History and Philosophy of Religion in the cross-cultural context, and to Islam in the context of India’s religious cultural and – I would like to underscore – legal pluralism). From my experience as an Editor-in-Chief of Sophia I have come to learn a lot more – than from my own narrower training - about the sorts of issues Professor Cantwell Smith (hereafter, Smith) was tackling, and how the legacy that bequeathed the intellectual (albeit the academically circumscribed) world with, has a made a marked difference to the study of world cultures and life-patterns. These episthematics or aporias that I focus on in and from the thinking of Smith are: 1. The problem of ‘God’ 2. Faith vs Belief 3. Scripture 4. Ritual over Transcendence
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