Wednesday Seminar
2019
- Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria, Sir S. Radhakrishnan: “Saving the Appearances” in East-West Academy, 17th January, 2019.
- Prof. Mary Evans, “Being a Respectable Woman: The Case of the UK”, 30th January, 2019.
- Prof. T.A. Ozog, “Various Forms of Religious Coexistence: European, Japanese and Indian Perspective”, & Prof. Zbigniew Kazmierczak, “John Hick’s Religious Pluralism and the Meaning of Religion”, 7th February, 2019.
- Prof. Richard Sorabji, “Surprises in studying the History of Philosophy in Greek and other cultures, West and East”, 13th February, 2019.
- Prof. Sonia Sikka, “Religion as faith? Secularism, free exercise and the privatization of Religion”, 6th March, 2019.
- Prof. Sonia Sikka, “Religion as Identity? Framing Religion within the Politics of Recognition”, 13th March, 2019.
- Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy, “Tantra and Aesthetics”, 14th March, 2019.
- Prof. Sonia Sikka, “Religion as Philosophy? Asian Traditions, New religious Movements and the Public Reason Debate”, 20th March, 2019.
- Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy, “Tantra and Aesthetics”, 14th March, 2019.
- Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy, “Concept of Shakti in Tantra and Art. The creative force, Prakruti”, 27th March, 2019.
- Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy, “Understanding and creating experience in yoga and Art. Authenticity of Yogika Pratyaksha and Pratibha”, 29th March, 2019.
- Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy, “Rasa and Rasaanubhava. The concept of Saadharanikarana and sublimation of personal experience”, 5th April, 2019.
- Dr. Ayesha Gautam, “Understanding Testimonial Knowledge through the Lens of Miranda Fricker”, 10th April, 2019.
- Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy, “Different kinds of Tantra like left and Right; Kaula and samaya and the social practices”, 12th April, 2019.
- Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy, “Tantra and shastras on Grammar, poetics”, 16th April, 2019.
- Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy, “Tantra and performing arts with special reference to Natya shastra”, 24th April, 2019.
- Prof. Sreenivasa Murthy, “Yantra, Tantra and Mantra with special reference to Srividya and Saundaryalahari”, 26th April, 2019.
- Prof. Ramin Jahanbegloo, “The Other Camus: An Unheroic Hero”, 4th September, 2019.
- Prof. Daniel G. Campos, “Latin American Sport Philosophy: The Centrality of Playfulness in Human Wellbeing and the Good Life Communities”, 11th September, 2019.
2018
- Shaun Nichols, “Death and the Self”, 10th January, 2018.
- Carol Rovane, “Collective Agency, Group Agency and Responsibility”, 11th January, 2018.
- Rachana Kamtekar, “Plato and the Pleonectic Conception of Human Nature”, 15th January, 2018.
- Stuart Gray, “Rule as Stewardship in Ancient Indian Thought”, 17th January, 2018.
- Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria, “Hegel’s Indian Philosophy (history of Philosophy & Philosophy of Religion)”, 24th January, 2018.
- Prof. Sir Richard Sorabji, “What Best Guides Conduct: A Few Exceptions less Rules or Insights into Particular Circumstances Adjusting Rules of Thumb? Aristotle’s, the Stories, Gandhi in relation to Kant and Utilitarian’s”, 15th February, 2018.
- Malcolm Keating, “Postulating Poetic Meanings: Arthapatti in Mukula Bhatta’s Theory of Communication”, 26th February, 2018.
- Prof. Sonia Sikka, “Pluralism about What? Religion as Belief and Identity”, 11th April, 2018.
- Prof. Daniel Raveh, “On Hospitality: A Dialogue with Ramchandra Gandhi”, 19th September, 2018.
- Dr. Nicolas Bommarito, “Jainism, Buddhism and the Ethics of Arguing”, 1st October, 2018.
- Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhury, “The Relevance of Philosophy in our Time”, 25th October, 2018.
- Prof. A. Raghuramaraju, “Re-examining the Genealogy of Classical Indian Philosophy”, 5th November, 2018.
- Prof. Raj Ayyar, “The Relevance of Philosophy in our Time”, 15th November, 2018.
- Prof. Bijoy Boruah, “The Relevance of Philosophy in our Time”, 22th November, 2018.
- Dr. Nilanjan Bhowmick, “The Relevance of Philosophy in our Time”, 30th November, 2018.
- Prof. Marcel Verweij, “Ethics of emerging Antibiotic Resistance”, 3rd December, 2018.
2017
- Dr. Kit Patrick, “Unification as an Epistemic Virtue”, 18th January, 2017.
- Prof. S. Shyamkishore Singh, “Nature of Art and Aesthetic Experience”, 1st February, 2017.
- Prof. S. Shyamkishore Singh, “Acharya Abhinavgupta’s Contribution to Aesthetics”, 7th February, 2017.
- Prof. Sir Richard Sorabji, “The Discovery of Freedom of Speech and of Freedom of Speech for All”, 8th February, 2017.
- Prof. Prasenjit Biswas, “Phenomenology of the in apparent: Reading Division III of Being and Time”, 9th February, 2017.
- Prof. Jules Simon, “Aesthetics and Politics: Reflections on Love and the Origins of Fascism”, 15th February, 2017.
- Prof. Christian Ludec, “Leibniz and Systematicity”, 1st March, 2017.
- Prof. Sonia Sikka, “Social Identities: Race, Culture and religion”, 8th, 22nd and 29th March, 2017.
- Prof. Christopher Hill, “Unrevisability”, 23rd March, 2017.
- Prof. Kim Diaz, “Indigenism and Freedom in Mexico: The Work of Luis Villoro”, 12th April, 2017.
- Prof. Kim Diaz, “A Freirean Analysis of Nationalism”, 19th April, 2017.
- Nic Bommarito, “Inner Virtue”, 26th July, 2017.
- Siby K. george, “Agency as Response: A Heideggerian Account”, 28th July, 2017.
- Prof. Pradeep P. gokhale, “Re-understanding Patanjala-Yoga in the Light of Buddhism”, 21st August, 2017.
- Prof. Sebastian Velassery, “Ethics of Apophasis: Upanishads and Medieval Christianity”, 20th September, 2017.
- Prof. Roy Perrett (Ashoka), “Memory, Doubt and the Self”, 28th September, 2017.
- Prof. Vinit Haksar, “Violence in a Spirit of Love: Perfectionism and the Second Best in Gandhian Philosophy”, 4th October, 2017.
- Prof. A. Raghuramaraju, “Bending Western Philosophy for India: Deleuze and Gandhi”, 1st November, 2017.
- Prof. Costica Bradatan, “Why We Fail and How”, 13th November, 2017.
2016
- Dr. Martin Lin, “Spinoza and the Mark of the Mental”, 13th January, 2016.
- Dr. Anand Jayprakash Vaidya & Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria, “The Inclusion Problem in the Philosophy of Mind: The Case of Advaita Vedanta and the Extended Mind Hypothesis”, 15th January, 2016.
- Prof. Alex Watson, “A Spectrum of Classical Indian Positions Concerning the Existence and Nature of a Self ”, 27th January, 2016.
- Prof. Barbara Cassin, “Homer and Austin: A Genealogy of Performative”, 2nd February, 2016.
- Prof. Sir Richard Sorabji, “Freedom of Speech vs Freedom of Religion: Indian Solution”, 10th February, 2016.
- Prof. R.C. Pradhan, “New Developments in Meaning Theory: On Saving Meaning from Semantic Naturalism”, 25th February, 2016.
- Prof. Sonia Sikka, “Liminal Beings: Revisiting Heidegger on Animality”, 9th March, 2016.
- Dr. S. Lourdunathan, “Philosophy of Liberation”, 18th April, 2016.
- Prof. Daniel Raveh, “Place, No-place, Home: An Intercultural Exchange”, 31st August, 2016.
- Dr. Costica Bradatan, “in Praise of Exile”, 24th August, 2016.
- Prof. Seumas Miller, “Collective Moral Responsibility: An Individualist Relational Account”, 19th October, 2016.
- Prof. Asha Mukherjee, “Freedom and Moral Responsibility: Agency, Dynamics and Openness”, 26th October, 2016.
- Dr. Luke Roelofs, “Pansychism, Intuitions and the Great Chain of Being”, 9th November, 2016.
- Prof. Amitabha Das Gupta, “On the Possibility of Nonscientific Mode of Knowing: The Case of Literature”,10th November, 2016.
- Prof. Asha Mukherjee, “Social Justice in India: A Feminist Perspective”, 15th November, 2016.
2015
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Dr. Manohar Kumar, "A Justification of Whistleblowing", 4th November, 2015
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Dr. Pritam Baruah, "Dworkin's Value Holism", 28th October, 2015
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Prof. Kanchana Mahadevan, "Film, Perception and Philosophy: Intersections?" 15th October, 2015.
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Prof. A. Raghuramaraju, "Excavating the Problem of Non-being," 14th October, 2015.
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Prof. S. Panneerselvam, "Contextualizing the Identity of Dalit Self: A Phenomenological Reading", 7th October, 2015.
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Dr. Ananta Kumar Giri, "Transforming the Subjective and the Objective: Transpositional Subject" Objectivity, 21st September, 2015.
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Prof. Keya Maitra, "Epistemology of Mindfulness: Some Preliminary Reflections", 2nd September, 2015.
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Prof. K. Srinivas, Gandhi the Pacifist, 7th August, 2015'
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Dr. Akash Singh Rathore, "Thin Swaraj: Towards an Authentic Indian Political Philosophy", 15th April, 2015.
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Prof. Vinit Haksar, "appiness and Well Being", 17th March, 2015.
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Dr. Michael Becker, "Religion in the Secular State", 3rd March, 2015.
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Dr. Adam Barkman, "Justice in Love", 18th February, 2015.
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Dr. Nishad Patnaik, "Transcendental Logic and Method in the First Critique: A Phenomenological Approach", 11th February, 2015.
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Prof. Stephen Stich, “The Geography of Philosophy: Exploring Cultural Differences and Cultural Universals in Philosophical Intuitions & Concepts”, 8th February, 2015.
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Prof. Heinz Werner Wessler, 20th January, 2015.
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Prof. Rachana Kamtekar, “The Soul’s (after-) Life”, 7th January, 2015
2014
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Dr. Nilanjan Bhowmick, "Future of Indology", 12th November, 2014.
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Prof. Babu Thaliath "Knowledge and Reference: The Referentiality of Knowledge and Knowledge Systems", 21st October, 2014.
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Martin Lin, "Philosophy and Its History, Deflationism and Epistemology", 8th October, 2014
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Prof. Bijoy H. Boruah, "Two Conceptions of the Self: Perspectival and Personal", 10th September, 2014.
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Kim Diaz, "Post-Colonial Consciousness: Paulo Freire's Conscientizacao and the Prison Mindfulness Institute", 16th May, 2014.
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Prof. Jules Simon, "Hannah Arendt: A Phenomenology of Exile and the Speech-Acts of a Politics of Ahimsa", 14th May, 2014.
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Prof. Jay Drydyk, "Two Concepts of Overlapping Consensus", 28th April, 2014.
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Prof. Sonia Sikka, "Teaching 'Religion' and 'Philosophy' in India", 26th March, 2014.
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Prof. R.C. Pradhan, On "Mind and World: Revisiting Mcdowell's Naturalism", 14th March, 2014.
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Dr. Saitya Brata Das, "Schelling: Metaphysics and Politics," 12th March, 2014.
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Geshe Dorji Damdul, "What Constitutes Ultimate Reality? Different Perspectives", 24th & 25th February, 2014.
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Eric Jacobson, "The Religion of Reason", 3rd February, 2014.
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Prof. Akeel Bilgrami, "Liberty and Equality", 15th January, 2014.
2013
- Prof. Gulam Mustafa, Khwaja "Mystic thought of Kashmir", 30th October, 2013
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Dr. Genevieve Fraisse, "Gender in profile question of concept and political genealogy", 29th October, 2013.
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Dr. Y.S. Alone, "Interrogating interface: protected ignorance and its representation", 23rd October, 2013.
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Dr. Anup Dhar, "The Body in Psychoanilysis: Between Destructuration an Aboriginalization", 19th October, 2013.
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Dr. Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, "First-order Predicate Logic", 11th,,12th, 14th & 15th October, 2013.
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Dr. Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, "Justification of Deducation", 17th & 18th October, 2013.
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Dr. Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, "Tarski's Theory of Truth", 9th & 10th October, 2013.
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Dr. Geshe Dorji Damdul, "Ultimate Reality in Madhyamaka Philosophy of Nagarjuna: An Extract from "Illuminating the clear Intention", 1st October and 30th September 2013.
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Dr. Arudra Burra, "Coercion and Moral Explanation", 25th September, 2013.
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Dr. Milind Wakankar, On "Religious Method: Plotinus, Hegel Heidegger", 11th September, 2013.
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Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria, "Much ado about Nothing (ness) since Nasadiyasukta: God(s), Evil & Liberation after Nagarjuna, and Sankara", 6th September, 2013
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Dr. Michael Dusche, "Women's Rights in India: Hierarchical Ethics vs. Egalitarian Morality", 4th September, 2013.
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Dr. Anirban Das, "Feminist Theory, Deconstruction and the Politics of Embodiment", 29th August, 2013.
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Prof. A. Raghuramraju, "Denying the Difference Between Hinduism and Buddism: S. Radhakrishanan, B.R. Ambedkar and T.R.V. Murthy", 5th August, 2013.
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Prof. Biswambhar Pahi, "Relating Two Traditions of Logic", 21st March, 2013.
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Rasmus thybo Jensen, On" McDowell's Disjunctivism and Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception." 30th January, 2013.
2012
- Prof. Aijam Ahmad, "Alienatin and Freedom Ontology of Social Being in Karl Marx", 1st November, 2012.
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Prof. Gail M. Presbey, "Odera Oruka's Social Ethics for Africa", 28th August, 2012
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Dr. Rachel S. Breziz, "Understanding Self and Other: A view through Narrative Memory", 19th April 2012.
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Aicha Liviana Messina, Peace and Justice in Levine's thought", 17th April, 2012.
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Prof. T.S. Rukmani, "How Much Adhikara Does A Commentator Have to Interpret A Sastra Text?" 4th April, 2012
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Prof. Birgit Kellner, "Placing Reason in Buddhism: Perspectives on the Pramana Tradition", 22nd March, 2012
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Leonard Harris, "Universal Human Liberation: Alain L. Locke and Critical Pragmatism", 24th February, 2012.
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Prof. Sonia Kikka "Heidegger, (No-) Self and Responsibility", 16th February, 2012
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Dr. Ranjan Panda, "The Virtues of an Epistemic Agent," 14th February, 2012.
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Dr. Prasenjit Biswas, "Language, Life and Aporia: A Critique of Normativity", 12th January, 2012.
2011
- Prof. Francoise Dastur, "The New Image of Man: in the Western Philosophy of the 20th Century", December, 2011.
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Prof. Sanil. V. "Contemporary Reception of Hegel", 2nd December, 2011
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Dr. Shashi Motilal, "Human Rights and Human Moral Obligations: Some perspectives on the Ancient and Modern interpretations of the Concept of 'Dharma", 16th November, 2011
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Prof. Sanil. V, "Self-Portraits: Philosophy and Mirror-Work", 9th November, 2011
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Dr. Bindu Puri, "The Dynamics of the Self and "Other": Re-constructing the Debate between Tagore and Gandhi", 2nd November, 2011
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Prof. S. Panneerselvam, "The Cultural Paradigm of the Philosophy of the Tamils", 28th October, 2011
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Dr. Bharati Puri, "Buddhism in the Public Sphere of India", 21st October, 2011.
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Prof. Gopal Guru, "Moral Framework of Indian Democracy", 12th October, 2011
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Dr. Nivedita Gangopadhyaya, "Embodied Cognition Approaches to Social Cognition", 26th August, 2011.
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Prof. Parimal G. Patil, "Dharmkirti's White Life (Buddhist Epistemological Traditions) 14th March, 2011
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Dr. Sonia Kikka, "Heidegger's Critique of Modernity and the Task of Imagining Possible Futures," 4th March, 2011.
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Dr. Ashwini K. Pitush, "The Non-Western Challenge to Human Rights", 28th February, 2011.
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Prof. Christopher Elton Macann, "Philosophy as Autobiography", 18th February, 2011.
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Prof. Richar Sorabji, "Gandhi as a Philosopher", 2nd February, 2011.
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Prof. Sadhan Chakraborty, "Realism and Its Alternatives", 28th January, 2011.
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Prof. Purushottam Billimoria, "Hegel's Orientalism", 14th January, 2011.
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Prof. Murali Ramachandran "Knowing, Knowing that One Knows and Assertability", 7th January, 2011.