[INDOLOGY] Review Paramaanu of theory

Wed Apr 24 17:12:28 UTC 2013

If in (some?) anglophone philosophy departments they no longer raise their brows on metaphysics, I am glad to hear the news, but after all it was in the anglophone world that the unfortunate and sterile contraposition between *analytical* and *continental* philosophy (subtly (?) implying by the dissymmetry of the attributes that analytical philosophy was the appanage of the “insular” (and, by extension, atlantic “other-continental”) — while, by inference, the portion of the “continent” must be non-analytical, i. e. non-rational mumbo-jumbo) was brought up in the first place, which held the ground at least for the better part of the second half of the XX century.

Paolo Magnone
Sanskrit Language and Literature
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan)

Jambudvipa  - Indology and Sanskrit Studies (www.jambudvipa.net<http://www.jambudvipa.net>)

On 24/04/2013 17:52, Coseru, Cristian wrote:
This discussion seems somewhat uninformed by what actually goes on in philosophy departments (and the discipline of philosophy in general). Of course metaphysics and epistemology are core areas of philosophy! No ranked philosophy department in the Anglophone world would be counted as such if it did not have strengths in those areas. Furthermore, one can do metaphysics in a historical mode (by working on a specific figure in the canon, say, Leibniz on modality) or, as is most often the case, by engaging contemporary debates on a given topic (causation, time, personal identity, etc.). So, far from being "old fashioned" or exclusively confined to so-called "continental" departments, metaphysics and ontology (the latter is really just a related subfield of metaphysics) are very much part of the mainstream curriculum in Anglophone philosophy departments.

Christian Coseru
Department of Philosophy
College of Charleston

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On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:09 AM, "Paolo Magnone" <paolo.magnone at unicatt.it<mailto:paolo.magnone at unicatt.it>> wrote:

Believe it or not, in some continental, yet undoubtedly western philosophy departments they still teach some old-fashioned philosophical subjects such as ontology and metaphysics... luckily (from my point of view) philosophy in the West has not yet generally become what the Anglosaxon world is trying to reduce it to. So it would be well advised not to make such sweeping statements equating “western philosophy” tout court with analytical philosophy.

Paolo Magnone
Sanskrit Language and Literature
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan)

Jambudvipa  - Indology and Sanskrit Studies (www.jambudvipa.net<http://www.jambudvipa.net>)

On 24/04/2013 14:49, Howard Resnick wrote:
In western philosophy departments, logicians critique past theories and argue for what they believe is the best possible logic, but of course the history of logic theories is taught as well. Surely both are taught, at least somewhere, in Indian universities.

Howard Resnick

On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:42 PM, Veeranarayana Pandurangi <veerankp at gmail.com<mailto:veerankp at gmail.com>> wrote:

Yes sir.
Unlike in west we teach it as we think this is the science. We need to modify if it is no longer justified.

On Apr 24, 2013 12:17 AM, "Jean-Luc Chevillard" <jean-luc.chevillard at univ-paris-diderot.fr<mailto:jean-luc.chevillard at univ-paris-diderot.fr>> wrote:
You write

"I think we (naiyayikas) should not be teaching old paramaanu theory if it is really untenable."

This makes me wonder whether you see yourself as teaching theories
or as teaching the history of those theories.

How would you characterize what you do?

-- Jean-Luc Chevillard (Paris)

On 23/04/2013 20:05, Veeranarayana Pandurangi wrote:
Dear all

Sorry for crossposting.
I am searching for some realistic modern reveiws/ alternative theories
of paramaanu theory of nyayavaisheshika.

I think we (naiyayikas) should not be teaching old paramaanu theory if
it is really untenable.

--
निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः।। (भ.गी.)

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