Mid-term paper
topics.
First response paper. Open this document to see the
questions.
Second response paper
instructions.
Third response paper
topic.
Final papers are due on Monday, May 19th, by 5 PM, in my office
(Bartlett 358) or mailbox (located in the Philosophy department corridor).
You are to write a paper on a topic of your choice, which must be cleared by
me in advance. So please email me pronto.
Introductory Lecture notes! Find them here.
Notes on the Isha
Upanishad.
Read me for 2/15/2008.
Priming for discussion on Buddhism... more on K's question... READ THIS! 2/15/2008,
2 PM.
A bit more on the
Materialists. 3/2/2008.
A few lines on inherence and causation in the Nyaya-Vaisesika. Try to read this ahead of Friday's
class. 3/5/2008, 10:30 PM.
The Buddhist subjective
idealists and Bhartrhari on non-qualified perception. 3/13/2008.
Nyaya on justificational regress: text of missed lecture;
3/26/2008.
Brief note on Yoga.
4/6/2008.
Lecture notes from 4/11/2008. Kumarila on intrinsic validity.
Note on Chapters 13,
15 and 18 of the Gita. 4/30/2008.
Advaita by accident... Samantha's question, and
an answer.
Other assigned readings:
Roy Perrett, "Saints and the
Supramoral"
B.K. Matilal, "Introducing Indian
Logic"
B.K. Matilal, "Moral Dilemmas and
Religious Dogmas"
A.K. Coomaraswamy, "Hindu
View of Art: Theory of Beauty"
M. Hiriyanna, "Art Experience
-2"
R. Tagore, "The Meaning
of Art"
Supplementary: A.K. Coomaraswamy, Excerpts.
Other stuff.
Vivekananda, Commentary on
Yoga-Sutras, Bk I.
Phillips, chapter on Early
Nyaya Realism. I referred to this when
preparing the last three lectures on Nyaya. If you wish to cite it, the book
details are: Stephen Phillips, 1995. Classical Indian Metaphysics,
Chicago: Open Court.
Encyclopedia of Indian
Philosophies article on the theory of inference in Old Nyaya.
On how to read transliterated Sanskrit.
A map of the Nationalist Movement (circa 1879-1947).