Concepts in Conversation: Canon and Cosmos

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

CONCEPTS IN CONVERSATION: CANON AND COSMOS

Rethinking Philosophical Knowledge across Traditions, Cultures and Worlds

22–24 February 2027

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Philosophy is not a single, unified tradition. What counts as philosophical knowledge has been shaped by languages, cultures, institutions, histories, and forms of intellectual authority. At the same time, philosophy reaches toward the cosmos: nature, consciousness, humanity, time, space, life, and the unknown. This conference asks what happens when different conceptual worlds encounter one another.

Concepts such as self, consciousness, reality, reason, knowledge, truth, freedom, justice, personhood, and liberation appear across traditions, but they do not necessarily mean the same thing. Their differences can become sources of conceptual transformation and renewal. The conference therefore seeks to move from a fixed canon toward an open cosmos of concepts in conversation.

WHY CONCEPTS IN CONVERSATION

Concepts travel across languages, civilizations, religions, historical periods, disciplines, political boundaries, and technologies.In doing so, they change.

Translation transforms.

Encounter transforms.

Context transforms.

Even misunderstanding can transform.

The aim is not to erase differences or impose an artificial synthesis, but to create a space in which traditions can listen, question, disagree, reinterpret, and transform one another.

 MAJOR THEMES AND SUB-THEMES

I. Indian Philosophical Concepts in Global Conversation

• Untranslatability of Concepts

• Metaphysical and Epistemological Distinctiveness

• Modes of Thinking and Ways of Living

• Anvikshiki and Modes of Philosophical Debates

II. Epistemologies and Canons

• Decoloniality

• Historiography

• Translation and Interpretation

• Non-Western Traditions

III. Minds, Selves and Machines

• Consciousness

• Phenomenology

• Digital Subjectivity

• Artificial Intelligence

IV. Cosmologies and Futures

• Environmental Philosophy

• Climate Ethics

• Ecological Cosmologies

• More-than-Human Worlds

CALL FOR PAPERS

Original research papers are invited from scholars, researchers, faculty members, independent researchers, and post-graduate students. Papers may address the conference theme, the major themes and sub-themes, or related questions concerning philosophical concepts, traditions, culture, knowledge systems, consciousness, technology, ecology, and the future of philosophy.

PUBLICATION AND TRAVEL SUPPORT

Selected papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in an edited academic volume, subject to peer review, editorial selection, and the requirements of the publisher. The Organizing Committee is also pleased to consider limited financial assistance towards travel and accommodation expenses for selected participants, subject to the availability of funds and applicable institutional guidelines. 

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract / Paper Submission Deadline: 10 December 2026

Email abstracts to: [email protected]

Notification of Acceptance: 25 December 2026

Conference: 22–24 February 2027

Registration Deadline: 20 January 2027

Registration Link- https://forms.gle/63oGDGRH2SQVyBn26

Speakers: Prof. Noburu Notomi, Prof. Arno Böhler, Prof. Balaganapathi Deverakonda, Prof. Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty, Prof. Sachchidanand Mishra, Prof. Laximikant Padhi, Prof. S. Panneerselvam

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