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The University of Southampton
Humanities

Indian Philosophy and the Historiography of Philosophy Event

Time:
10:15 - 17:30
Date:
16 - 17 April 2024
Venue:
Highfield Campus, Building 5, Room 2011 and Online

Event details

This workshop will investigate relationships between modern Western philosophy and Classical Indian philosophy.

Its governing questions are:

  • How differently can we tell the story of philosophy’s development by correcting past prejudices and properly integrating and engaging with Indian sources?
  • What roles has Indian philosophy played in the history of philosophy?
  • How and why has the historiography of philosophy excluded Indian philosophy?

Tuesday 16 April

10.15–11.30
Chakravarthi Ram Prasad (Lancaster University), ‘Knowing Where to Look: Bringing Indian Materials into Contemporary Debates on Emotions’

11.45–13.00
Kassandra Dugi (University of Oxford), ‘Madhyamaka Philosophy and Rethinking the Historiography of Free Will’

14.45–16.00
Christopher Ryan (London Metropolitan University), ‘Indian wisdom flows back to Europe’: Schopenhauer and classical Indian negation’

16.15–17.30
Christopher Janaway and Kurt Sylvan (University of Southampton), ‘Indian Thought in the History of Philosophy: Future Directions’

Wednesday 17 April

10.15–11.30
Nilanjan Das (University of Toronto), ‘On Translating Sanskrit Epistemology: The Case of Pramā’

11.45–13.00
Ananya Chaudhary and Richa Shukla (IIT Bhubaneswar), ‘Decolonizing the Image of Classical Indian Thought’

14.45–16.00
Sajan Karn (McMaster University), ‘Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch and Hindu Thought’

16.15–17.30
Amber Carpenter (Yale-NUS College), title to be announced.

Registration

For in-person attendance, please register by contacting l.m.white@soton.ac.uk by 9 April.

To attend online via Microsoft Teams, join the meeting.

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