Indian Philosophy and the Historiography of Philosophy

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? 

Workshop venue

University of Southampton, Building 5, Room 2011, Highfield Campus, Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ.

Registration

For in-person attendance, please register by contacting [email protected] by 9 April

To attend online via Microsoft Teams, Click here to join the meeting

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), tba