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CURRICULUM VITAE: Arindam Chakrabarti [email protected]

EDUCATION D.Phil, Oxford University, UK, 1982; Dissertation Title: “Our Talk about Non-Existents” (Supervised by Professors Sir Peter Strawson and Sir Michael Dummett)

M.A. , Calcutta University (specialization: Mathematical and Inductive Logic), 1978. First, in the First Class.

B.A. (with Honors in Philosophy), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1976 (First, in the first class and Ishan Scholar for highest grade-points/marks in all Humanities subjects including Mathematics)

LANGUAGES (other than English) (reading, writing, and speaking) Bengali (reading, writing, native speaker) Hindi (reading, speaking)

POSITIONS HELD Nirmal and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Indic Humanities, at the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University (SUNY) (Current, since Fall 2018)

Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai’i Manoa, January 1997---till July 2018 (Currently on leave)

Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of , , August 1993-December 1998.

Research Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISC campus Bangalore, 2009 and 2010 (two consecutive Spring semesters).

Director, Center for South Asian Studies, School of Hawaiian Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 2000-2002.

Adjunct Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA. September 1990-June 1993.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle USA, December 1990 - June 1992.

Associate Professor, The Asiatic , Calcutta, May 1986-1988.

Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, , 1984-1986.

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FELLOWSHIPS, VISITING APPOINTMENTS, AND ACADEMIC HONORS Rajni Kothari Distinguished Chair of , Center for Study of Developing , Delhi, India, July—Dec, 2015. Visiting Professor Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, June--July 2014 National Lecturer, appointed by Indian Council of Philosophical Research, of India, 2010. Visiting Professor, Center for Study of Social Sciences, , July 1-December 20th, 2007 Visiting Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISC, Bangalore, July-August 2006 Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK, April-June 2004 Visiting Professor, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, , India, August 2003-March 2004

Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, June 2001 Watumull Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai’i Manoa, Winter 1996. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Visiting Summer Professorship, Shimla, 1994 N.E.H (USA) Summer Institute Participant Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley, 1993. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle USA, December 1990-June 1992 Post-Doctoral Jacobson Fellow and Tutor, University College London, Oct 1988-Sept 1990 Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities Fellowship, Edinburgh University, Winter 1989. Spalding Visiting Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford, April-October 1988. Spalding Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1987-1988

GRANTS (selected) J. Templeton Foundation 3 years’ Research Grant ($200,000) for God-Realism Connection Project, 2014 Fall—till 2017 Spring

Directorship of of Consciousness and the Humanities (Epoch) program funded by an annual $20,000 grant to the UHM Philosophy Department from the Ruth Kleinfeld Distinguished Professor at UH Foundation, 2011—ongoing till date, 2019 ----

NEH Summer Institute on , Religions and Cultures in India, Conflicts and Negotiations. Co-Director (along with Vrinda Dalmiya), June-July 2000.

PUBLICATIONS: MONOGRAPHS AND EDITED VOLUMES IN ENGLISH

Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects and Other Subjects (24 chapters Monograph)— Contract Signed with Bloomsbury, London, published Sept, 2019.

The Book of Questions: An Analytical Introduction to —Contract signed with Penguin Books, India. Forthcoming 2020.

Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, February, 2017.

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Comparative Philosophy without Borders: Essays in Fusion Philosophy, co-edited with Ralph Weber, November, 2015, Bloomsbury-Continuum, London, UK.

Engaged Emancipation: New Essays on Yogavāsiṣtha, Co-edited with Christopher Chapple, State University of New York Press, 2014.

Mahābhārata Now: Narrative, Aesthetics, Ethics (Co-edited with Shibaji Bandyopadhyaya), Routledge India, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2013.

Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism and Human Cognition (Co-edited with Mark Siderits and Tom Tillemans), Columbia University Press, New York, 2011.

Universals, Concepts, and Qualities: New Essays on the Meaning of Predicates, Ashgate Publishing, UK, May 2006, Co-edited with Sir Peter Strawson. (See Review in the Times Literary Supplement, January 2008).

Denying Existence (Book in the Synthese Library Series), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston, 1997.

Epistemology, Meaning and After Matilal (edited anthology), Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Studies in the Humanities Series Vol. II, 1996. Knowing from Words (Co-edited with Bimal Matilal), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Synthese Library Series, 1993

PHILOSOPHICAL MONOGRAPH IN SANSKRIT: Ādhunika-Pratīcya-Pramāņa-Mīmāmsā (Contemporary Western Theories of Knowledge), Published by R.S. Vidyapeeth Tirupati, India, June, 2005.

6 PHILOSOPHICAL MONOGRAPHS IN BENGALI : Titles translated into English: 1. From the Body to Doubt. 2. The Three Times. 3. Philosophy of Food and Clothing. 4. The Nectar of Thinking 5. The Body, Home and Friendship: Six Essays in Embodied Philosophy 6. What is (the) News?

PAPERS/ARTICLES (Over 100 papers in refereed journals and anthologies, not all listed )

“Can there be a science of Meditation?” in Thinking with the of , ed: Chris Chapple and Ana Funes (Lexington Books 2019)

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“Meaning of Life in (Mahabharata)” –invited refereed chapter in Meaning of Life and the Great , ed by Stephen Leach et al, Routledge, 2018.

“Free Will in Indian Thought”—invited refereed chapter in The Routledge Companion to Free Will edited by, Kevin Timpe, New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. “Welcome Home, through the Door: An Essay in Moral Phenomenology of Human Dwelling” in Locations: An Anthology of Architecture and Urbanism 01 (Annual of Architecture and Urbanism) Hardcover Dec 2016, Kazi K Ashraf (Editor)

"Against the Error of Retaliation: A Philosophical Tribute to Ramchandra Gandhi", in Learning Non-Violence (ed) Gangeya Mukherji, , Delhi, March 2016

“Refining the Repulsive: Towards an Indian Aesthetics of the Ugly and the Disgusting” in Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Indian Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, February, 2016.

“Is this a Dream? A Critique of Mokṣopaya’s Take on Experience, Objecthood and the External World” Chap. 4, in Engaged Emancipation, (Edited by Chris Chapple and Arindam Chakrabarti) SUNY Press, February 2015

“A Horrid Tree-House or a Charming City” Yogavāsiṣṭha on Spiritual Culture of the Body, in Engaged Emancipation, (Edited by Chris Chapple and Arindam Chakrabarti) SUNY Press, February 2015

“How Do We Read Others' Feelings? Strawson and Zhuangzi Speak to Dharmakīrti, Ratnakīrti and ,” in Comparative Philosophy without Borders. (edited by Arindam Chakrabarti and Ralph Weber) Bloomsbury, 2015

“Possessions” in Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, (ed) Rahul Govind, Journal of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India, 2014

“Just Words: An Ethics of Conversation in the Mahābhārata”, in Arindam Chakrabarti and Sibaji Bandyopadhyay (eds) Mahābhārata Now. Routledge, Delhi, 2014

“The Unavoidable Void: Nonexistence, Absence, and Emptiness” in Jeeloo Liu, Douglas L. Berger (eds), Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, Routledge, 2014.

“Now I shall Eat You Up: On the Logic of the Vocative” in Ramchandra Gandhi: The Man and His Philosophy (Ed): A. Raghuramaraju, Routledge, 2013

“On Debts, Duties, and Dialogue: The and Levinas on the Ethical Metaphysics of Hospitality”, in Mattice and Kalmanson (eds), Levinas and Asian Thought, Duquesne University Press, 2013.

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“Why Pray to God who can Hear the Ant’s Anklets?”, in Sri Ramakrishna’s Ideas and Our Times: A Retrospect on His 175th Birth Anniversary, R.K. Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, 2013.

“Or”, in Madhabendranath Mitra, et al (eds), Studies in Logic: A Dialogue Between the East and the West, Sanctum Books, New Delhi, 2012.

“Phenomenology of Fun and Boredom”, in Narasimha and Ahuja (eds), Dialogues Across Disciplines, National Institute of Advanced Study, Bangalore, 2012. “Arguing from Synthesis to the Self: Utpala and Abhinavagupta Respond to Buddhist No- Selfism”, in Self Versus No-Self, Jonardon Ganeri and Chakravarthi Ramprasad (eds), London, Ashgate, 2012.

“A Critique of Pure Revenge”, in Passion, Death, and : The Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon, (Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures), Springer 2012.

“The Connecting Manas: Inner Sense, Commonsense or the Organ of Imagination”, in After Appropriation: Intercultural Explorations in Philosophy and Religion, Morny Joy (ed), University of Calgary Press, 2011.

“New Stuff: On the Very Idea of Creativity in Philosophical Thinking”, in Contrary Thinking: Selected Essays on Daya , Jay Garfield, Nalini Bhushan, Daniel Raveh (eds), Oxford University Press, 2011.

“Troubles with a Second Self: The Problem of Other Minds in 11th Century Indian and 20th Century Western Philosophy”, in Subjectivity and Knowledge, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011, of Argument, Journal of Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland.

“A Horrid Tree-House or a Charming City? Yogavāsiṣḥa on the Body”, in Nature and Culture, Roddam Narasimha and Sangeetha Menon (eds), PHISPC, New Delhi, 2010.

“Non-Cruelty of Speech and the Hand: Hopes for Humanity Inspired by the Mahābhārata and the Buddha”, in Global Forum on Civilization and , Seoul, Korea, December 2009 (proceedings).

“On Errors about One’s Own Current Mental State”, in Essays in Epistemology, (Roma , General Editor) Calcutta University, Department of Philosophy Publication, March, 2009.

“The Case of the Accusative: Contemporary Relevance of Bhartṛhari on the Kārakas”, in Bhartṛhari: Language, Thought and Reality, Mithilesh Chaturvedi, Motilal Banarsidass (eds), Delhi, 2009.

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“Play, Pleasure, Pain: Ownerless Emotions in Rasa-Aesthetics”, Chapter 14 in “Science, Literature and Aesthetics”, Professor Amiya Dev (ed), Vol. 40 in the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, December, 2008.

“The Cool: Philosophy as Critique of Popular Culture”, in Proceedings of Conference on Popular Culture, Department of Philosophy, University of New , Albuquerque, 2007.

“Knowledge from Trusted Tellings and its Preventers”, in Shabdapramana, Edited Volume published by Department of Philosophy, North Bengal University, 2007.

“On What There Will Be: The Future in Quine” in Essays on Two Dogmas of Empiricism, book published by the Department of Philosophy, Rabindarbharati University, Kolkata, 2006.

“From Vimarsha to Vishrama: You, I, and the Tranquil Taste of Freedom” in Abhinavagupta: Reconsiderations, Makarand Paranjape and Sunther Visvulingam (eds), Samvad, India, 2006.

“Universal Properties in Indian Philosophy” in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, December 2005.

“Manas: In Defense of the Inner Sense” in Towards a Spiritual Psychology, Rao and Bhatt Marwaha (ed), Samvad India Foundation, New Delhi, 2005.

“The Heart of Repose, the Repose of the Heart: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Concept of Visranti” in Samarasya, in Das and Furlinger D.K. (eds), Printworld, 2005.

“the Moral Psychology of Revenge”, in Journal of Human Values, Vol. 11, No. 1, Indian Institute of Management, Sage Publications, Calcutta, January 2005.

“Seeing Without Recognizing? More of Denuding Perceptual Content”, in Philosophy East and West, Vol. 54, No. 3, 2004.

“Matter, Memory and the Unity of the Self”, in Life, Mind and Consciousness, The Institute of Culture, Gol Park, Kolkata, 2004.

“Faith, Faiths and the Future”, in Human and Responsibility in the World Religions, Joseph Runzo, Nancy Marin and (eds), One World Press, October, 2003.

“Logic, Morals and Meditation: Tarka, , Yoga”, in EVAM, Vol. 13, Nos. 1 & 2, Samvad Foundation India, New Delhi, 2004.

“Perception, Apperception, and Non-Conceptual Content”, in Perspectives on Consciousness, Amita Chatterjee (ed), Munishiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi, 2003.

“Of Greed, Gadgets, and Guests: The Future of Human Dwellings”, in Technology and Cultural Values, Peter Hershock, Marietta Stepaniants, Roger T. Ames (eds), University of Hawai’i Press, 2003.

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“Analytic versus Comparative: A Bogus Dichotomy in Philosophy”, APA in Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 2002.

“The ‘Glory’ and ‘Impenetrability’ of the Peacock-egg”, in Bhartrhari and Wittgenstein, Sibajiban Bhattacharya (ed), , New Delhi, 2002.

“In What Sense is Nyāya Realist?”, Third Round, in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, January-March, 2002.

“The Cloud of Pretending”, in FAITH: in The Age of Uncertainty, India International Center, New Delhi, January 2002.

“Introduction”, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 51, No. 4, 2001.

“Disgust and the Ugly in Classical Indian Aesthetics”, in Proceedings of the Italian Association for Aesthetics, Sienna, 2001.

“The Cosmic and Social Order of Eating”, in Ṛta: Cosmic Order and Chaos, Kapila Vatsyayana (ed), National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, 2001.

“God as the Teacher, the Teacher as God”, in : Concepts and Applications, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta, March 2001.

“Is Understanding Teachable” in The Empirical and the Transcendental, Bina Gupta (ed), Rowman and Littlefield, USA, 2000.

“Truth, Recognition of Truth, and Thoughtless Realism: Without Fregean Fetters”, in Proceedings of the World Congress of Philosophy, Vol. XII, Boston, 2000.

“Against Immaculate Perception”, in Philosophy East and West, 50th Anniversary Issue, January, 2000.

“Keep Trying: Potter on Freedom Within Karma”, in Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, 2000.

“Debts and Dwellings: The Vedas and Levinas on the Ethical Metaphysics of Hospitality”, in Das Antlitz des “Andern”, Evangelishe Akademi, Loccum, , 1999.

“But is Death an Evil?” and “Notes on Immortality” and “Death in Classical Indian Thought”, in Essays on Sofies Welt: Ein interreligioser Dialog über Geschichte, Philosophie und Wirklichkeit, Evangelische Akademie, Loccum, Germany, 1998.

“Telling as Letting Know”, in Philosophy of Language: The Big Questions, Andrea Nye (ed), Blackwell, Oxford, 1998.

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“Concept Possession, Sense Experience and Knowledge of a Language”, in Philosophy of Sir Peter Strawson; Library of Living Philosophers, K.T. Hahn (ed), Open Court, USA, 1998.

“Shadows: The Ontology of Contoured Darkness”, Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1998.

“Nyāya Realism and the Sense-Reference Distinction”, Discussion Note, Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, July, 1997.

“Seeing Daffodils, Seeing as Daffodils, Seeing Things Called “Daffodils””, in Relativism, Suffering and Beyond, J.N. Mohanty and P. Billimoria (ed), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997.

"Meat and Morality in the Mahābhārata”, in Epistemology, Meaning and Metaphysics After Matilal, Arindam Chakrabarti (ed), Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, 1997.

“Mind Body Dualism: A Philosophical Investigation”, New Delhi, 1997.

“On Not Dying”, in Indian Philosophical Quarterly (Special Issue on Descartes), Jan-April 1996.

“Kant in India”, in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Kant Congress, 1996.

“The Third Sense of ”, in New Essays in the Philosophy of Radhakrishnan, Ram Rao Pappu (ed), 1995.

“Is Nyāya Realist” in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, April 1995.

“Non-Particular Individuals”, in The Philosophy of Peter Strawson, P.K. Sen and R.R. Verma (eds), Allied Publishers & ICPR, Delhi, 1995.

“Sleep-Learning or Wake-up Call? Sruti-Sentences and Knowledge of ”, in Essays in Honor of K.S. Murty, Ashok Vohra and Sibajiban Bhattacharya (eds), 1995.

“The Dark Mother Flying Kites: Ramakrishna’s Metaphysic of Morals”, Sophia, December, 1994.

“Testimony: A Philosophical Study”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, December 1994.

“Individual and Collective Pride”, American Philosophical Quarterly, January 1992.

“Idealist Refutations of Idealism”, Idealistic Studies, September 1992.

“I Touch What I Saw”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, March 1992.

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“Blue and the Awareness of Blue”, Mind-Only School and Buddhist Logic, Rimpoche Doboom (ed), Tulku, Tibet House, New Delhi, 1990.

“Sentence-holism, Connected Designation and the Context Principle”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, September 1989.

“From the Fabric to the Weaver: The in Indian Philosophy”, Indian , Roy Perrett (ed), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Holland, 1989.

“The End of Life”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, December 1988.

“What Makes Us Indian?”, in Composite and National Integration, Rashiduddin Khan (ed), Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1987.

“On Understanding Falsehoods”, Journal of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta 1986.

“The Enigma of Existence: Hume, Kant and Frege”, Journal of the Department of Philosophy, Calcutta University, 1985.

“’s Indian Barbers: Classical Indian Approaches to the Problem of Singular Existence Denials”, Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective, Matilal and J.L. Shaw (eds), D. Reidel, Holland, 1985.

“Is Liberation Pleasant?” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 33, 1983.

“Two Problems in the Ontology of Fictional Discourse”, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1983.

“The Nyāya Proofs for the Existence of the Soul”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 1982.

“On What is Not”, Journal of the Indian Academy of Philosophy, Calcutta, 1977.

MAJOR ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES “Free Will and Freedom in Indian Philosophies” in The Routledge Companion to Free Will edited by Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith and Neil Levy (Editor), Routledge, London, 2016

“Rationality in Indian Thought”, in Blackwell’s Companion to World Philosophy, and Ronald Bontekoe (eds), Blackwell, Oxford, 1997.

“Metaphysics in India”, Blackwell’s Companion to Metaphysics, Ernest Sosa and J. Kim (eds), Blackwell, Oxford, 1994.

“Play, Pleasure, Pain: Ownerless Emotions in Rasa-Aesthetics”, Chapter 14 in “Science, Literature and Aesthetics”, Professor Amiya Dev (ed), Vol. 40 in the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, December, 2008.

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“Death in Classical Indian Thought”, in Philosophical Concepts Relevant to Sciences in Indian Tradition, Vol. III, Part 2, Pranab Kumar Sen (ed), PHISPC, Centre for Studies in Civilizations, New Delhi, 2008.

“Concepts of Cognition (jñāana), Knowledge (pramā), Error (apramā), in Philosophical Concepts Relevant to Sciences in Indian Tradition, Vol. 3, Part 1, Pranab Kumar Sen (ed), PHISPC, Centre for Study of Civilizations, New Delhi, 2006.

21 Entries on topics in Indian Logic and Metaphysics, in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Ted Honderich (ed), Oxford: O.U.P., Oxford, 1995.

REVIEWS “Review of A Rasa Reader by Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University Press, 2016”, in The British Journal of Aesthetics (forthcoming)

“Review of Testimony by C.A.J. Coady”, Times Literary Supplement, September 1992, “Knowing from Words”, Philosophy East and West, June 1992.

“Review of B.K. Matilal’s The Word and the World”, Mind, January 1992.

“Review of Jonathan Glover’s I: The Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity”, Mind, January 1990.

“Review of Junankar’s Gautama: The Nyāya Philosophy”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 1990.

“Review of Tachikawa’s Udayana’s Realism”, The Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1983.

SELECTED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Against Omniscience”, Matilal Memorial Lecture, Asiatic Society, April, 2016,

“We, the People” Rajni Kothari Memorial Lecture on Democracy at CSDS, December 18, 2015

“God/No One Knows: Objective Existence Claims and Refutations of Idealism”, Australia Key note address to Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Melbourne, July11, 2015

“All Birds Fly Back Home: Home and the Door in Philosophy of Architecture”, October 14, 2015, Chhayanaut, Dhanmondi Dhaka, Bangladesh. October 14, 2015

“Word without a Speaker” – Arindam Chakrabarti Invited Lecture with Gayatri Spivak as Chair, in the WORD OF GOD series, IRCPL, Columbia University. February 27, 2015

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“Whose is the World, Work and Wealth? Meditations on the First Verse of ” Nirad Baran Chakraborty Memorial Lecture, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Kolkata, , 2014,

“Moral metaphysics of Misery Shimla” at Weekly Research Seminar, Indian Institute of Advanced Study Shimla, June 24, 2014

“Death, Dream, and Dying in a Dream”, in Death and Figurations of After-Life, International Conference organized by Morphomata University of Cologne, Germany, at New Delhi, February 11-14, 2014.

“Manyu/ Rage in the Mahābhārata”, in the Summer School on, “Exploring Agency in the Mahābhārata: Ethical, Political, and Dharmic”, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, September 2012.

“Moral Agency of Birds and Beasts in the Mahābhārata” in the Summer School on, “Exploring Agency in the Mahābhārata: Ethical, Political, and Dharmic”, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, September 2012.

“God or No God? Buddhist Atheism and its Classical Indian Responses.” University Center Theater, Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Philosophy Club. Nov 26, 2013

“Truth and Recognition of Truth: Frege and Nyaya.” Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, March 21, 2013

“Envy, Competition, Markets and Morals” at National University of Singapore, Department of Philosophy, March 22, 2013.

“Can there be a Science of Meditation.” The Russian Academy of Sciences conference on Philosophy of Science and Asian Philosophy, Moscow, May, 2012.

“Is the Nature of Reality Interrogative?” International Conference on Nature of Reality, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India, March 2012.

“Home, Homeland, and the Limits of Cultural in Rabindranath’s Thought.” International conference on ’s “Home and the World.” Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India, November 19, 2011.

“Translation and Toleration.” Paper presented at Columbia University, November 4, 2011.

Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge and Error", URPP Asia and Europe Program, University of Zurich, Switzerland. 11 May 2010

“Vyadhikaraṇa Abhāva (Heterologous Absences)”, in Third Indian Conference on Logic and Its Applications, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, , India, January 9-11, 2009.

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“Looking through Reality as ‘Power’: and Philosophical Creativity in India during the Colonial Period”, in Philosophy in Colonial India, Department of Philosophy, University of Pune, January 21-23, 2009.

“Language: The Instrument of Knowledge” National Seminar under UGC, SAP, Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, January 21-23, 2009.

Between Jan 17th and May 20th of 2010: Delivered 22 invited lectures on different philosophical topics at Institute of Culture, Calcutta, St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, India International Centre, Delhi, First Asian Philosophy Congress, Organized by ICPR, JNU, Delhi, ICPR Centre Lucknow, University of Calcutta, NIAS, Bangalore, Sri Shankaracharya University, Kallady, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Sanskrit University, Puri

“Desire, Control and Concealment: Bhagavadgītā and Nagel on Hypocrisy.” Public Lecture at NIAS, Bangalore. May, 2009

“Bhaat Kaporer Bhaabnaa.” Samar Sen Memorial Lecture of Anushtup, organized by Literature Art National Culture Education and Research Society in collaboration with Consortium for Books and Culture, India, March 19, 2009.

“Is our Understanding of Words Inference Concerning What Exclusions the Speaker has in Mind?” A panel on the Buddhist theory of meaning, organized by the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Vancouver, Canada, April 2009.

“Ethics of Crisis/Ethics in Crisis in the Mahābhārata” at NIAS, Bangalore, May 29, 2009.

“Divine Bodies and Worshipped Idols: Comparative Reflections on Idolatry”, Comparative Philosophy of Religions panel at American Academy of Religions, Chicago, November 2, 2008.

“The Semantics of the Vocative”, American Academy of Religions, special panel on “Grammar and the Gods”, Chicago, November 1, 2008.

“Moral Psychology of Jealousy”, Department of Philosophy, Rabindrabharati University, Kolkata, India, December 10, 2007.

“On the Ethical Status of Vengeance”, invited lecture at the department of Philosophy, Chulalongkon University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 2007.

“Or,” Matilal Memorial International Conference on Logic, Navya Nyāya and Mathematics, India, January 2007.

“A Critique of Pure Revenge” at The American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) central organizing committee invited me for a special session in Washington D.C. devoted to my

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“Can there be Perception Without Concepts?” at National Institute of Advanced Study, Bangalore, Center for Philosophy,19 July 2006

“What is it to Form, Possess, and Use Concepts?” at National Institute of Advanced Study, Bangalore, Center for Philosophy, 21 July 2006

“A Phenomenology of Fun and Boredom”, Public lecture at National Institute of Advanced Studies on “A Phenomenology of Fun and Boredom”, Bangalore, India, July 2006.

“On the Very Idea of Non-Conceptual Perception” St. Petersburg State University, Russia, July 2006.

“I Am Told by an Expert, So I Know.” Conference on Knowledge, Belief and Faith, Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Oriental Philosophies, Moscow, May 31, 2006.

“On Sense and Difference”, Conference on Buddhist Theory of Meaning of Words, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, May 26, 2006.

“Making Sense with the Senses: Self-Luminosity and Non-Conceptual Perception”, Department of Religions and Sanskrit Studies, , Cambridge, Mass., March 20, 2006.

“After Cognition”, (Keynote address) to International Conference on Knowledge of Knowledge at the Center for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, January 4, 2006.

“Friendship and Other Minds: “If I were You!”, (Keynote address) at Annual Meeting of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Asilomar, San Francisco, October 2005.

“The Uses of Revulsion: Ethics and Aesthetics of Disgust”, (special plenary lecture) delivered at the 9th East West Philosophers’ Conference at the East West Center, Honolulu, June 4, 2005.

“The Self at Other Times and in Other Bodies”, paper at invited panel on Asian and Asian American Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Central Division meetings, Chicago, April 29, 2005.

“Solving the Puzzle of Relations” Pattabhirama Shastri Memorial Lectures at the RS Vidyapeetha, Tirupati, December 24, 2004

“Word-Meaning, Sentence-Meaning and the Role of Connection”, Pattabhirama Shastri Memorial Lectures at the RS Vidyapeetha, Tirupati, December 30, 2004.

“Does Self-Awareness Turn the Self into an Object?” panel on self-awareness at the American Philosophical Association Central Division meetings, Chicago, April 28, 2005.

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“Recognition and the Singleness of the ‘I’”, Department of Indian Philosophy and , La Sapienza, University of Rome, June 26, 2004.

“Jayanta Bhaṭṭa and Abhinavagupta Remembering, Recognition and the Unity of the Self”, conference on Self, Gresham College, London, June 26, 2004.

“Ethics and Aesthetics of Disgust”, The Society for History of Philosophy, Trinity College, Cambridge, June 22, 2004.

“A Critique of Pure Revenge”, Department of Philosophy, St. John’s College, Cambridge, June 9, 2004.

“’If,’ ‘Must’ and Arguing from the Threat of Contradiction: A Note on Tarka”, Seminar on Buddhist Logic organized by Professor Tom Tillemans. University of Lausanne, Switzerland, May 25, 2004.

“Can Pleasures Be True or False?” The Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland, May 18, 2004.

“Meditation, Ethics and Argumentation” Horizon Lecture, Birkbeck College, University of London, May 18, 2004.

“The Deities in the Body: Making Sense of the Senses” (Keynote address) national conference on Work-Culture and Efficiency, the Relevance of the Indriya-s, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati, March 28, 2004.

“Who did it? Nominative Case and the Navya Nyāya concept of a Free Agent in Gadadhāra’s Vyutpattivāda”, (in absentia), National conference on Gadadhāra’s Philosophy of Language at the French Institute of Indology, Pondicherry.

“Emotions in Rasa-Aesthetics”, Department of Sanskrit Literature, Sri Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala, March 11, 2004.

“Telling: Language and Contemporary Epistemology of Testimony”, State of the Art Distinguished Lecture at the Sri Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala, India, March 10, 2004.

“Logic, Meditation and Morals”, Department of Philosophy, Mysore University, India, February 10, 2004.

“Matter, Memory and the Unity of Consciousness”, Inaugural session of the International Conference on Life, Mind, and Consciousness, at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, January 17 and 18, 2004.

“The Case of the Accusative: Theory of Karma-Karaka in Bhartṛhari’s Philosophy of Grammar”, (in absentia) at International Conference on Bhaṛtrhari: language, thought, and reality, organized by Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Indian, International Center, New Delhi, December 14, 2003.

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“Manas: In Defense of the Inner Sense”, paper at International Conference on Self and Personality in Yoga and Indian Psychology, , organized by the Institute for Human Sciences and Infinity Foundation, New Jersey, December 9, 2003.

“Death in Brhadaranyaka Upanishad”, keynote address to Conference on B.U. at Jnanapravaha, , October 10, 2003.

“Remembering: Error or Knowledge? Nyāya and Mādhva Debate”, at National Institute of Advanced Study, Bangalore, September 22, 2003.

“What is Fun?”, invited especial lecture at the Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, September 8, 2003.

“Possessions: A Buddhist and Vedic Critique of Ownership”, Distinguished University Lecture at University of Hyderabad, September 8, 2003.

“Three Spaces in Yogavāsiṣṭha”, National Institute of Advanced Study, IICS, Bangalore, July 1, 2003.

“Logic, Meditation and Morality”, Distinguished Visitor Lecture, Haverford College, Philadelphia, April 3, 2003.

“Are we Enjoying Ourselves?”, Tagore Memorial Lecture at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, January 5, 2003.

WORKSHOPS “Making of Dwellings”: A Series of 7 Lectures for practicing architects. Bengal Foundation, Dhaka. Bangladesh. Sept. 2015

"Īśa Upaniṣad" Series of 9 lectures at Chinmaya International Foundation, Veliyanad, Kerala: A two-week Summer School, July 24 to August 7, 2014

"Indian Theories of Knowledge and Error" Lecture series at Chinmaya International Foundation, Veliyanad, Kerala: A two-week Summer School, July 24 to August 7, 2014

“Īśa Upaniṣad.” 3 Lectures organized by Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies, Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, March 17, 20, 24, 2009.

“’s De Anima” A series of lectures on at NIAS, Bangalore, February 6 – May 31, 2009.

“Theories of Concepts and Theories of Error”, Summer School on Philosophy for the Social Sciences and Humanities, NIAS, Bangalore, June 8-26, 2009.

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“A Philosophical Analysis of Bhagavadgītā’s Ethics, Epistemology, and Metaphysics”, Intensive course of lectures (30 hours) University of Calgary, Canada, March 24-28, 2008.

“Philosophy of Grammar (Meaning of Verbs and Verb-Endings, On the Doer and Agency, Empty Subject-Terms)”, Series of three lectures at Department of Sanskrit Studies, Central University of Hyderabad, India, November 2007.

“Metaphysics, Ethics and Politics of Work, Labor and Actions”, Series of six lectures on at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, October 2007.

“Faces of Fun”, Navayug Acharya Distinguished Lectures at the Department of English, University of Calcutta, January 13, 2005.

“Depths of Boredom”, Navayug Acharya Distinguished Lectures at the Department of English, University of Calcutta, January 14, 2005.

“Abhinavagupta’s Metaphysic of Consciousness: Memory, Differentiation and Awareness in Oneself and Others”, 3 M.M Memorial Lectures at , Varanasi, October 9, 10, 11, 2003.

"Indian Theories of Non-Knowledge (Doubt, Error, Dream, et cetera)" Workshop at NIAS, Bangalore, July 1, 2003.

"Classical Indian Epistemology" at the Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Three lectures on Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland, April 8, 9, and 10, 2003.

“Contemporary Western Epistemology " (7 lectures in Sanskrit) at Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati, Between August 2003 and March 2004

PUBLICATIONS IN NON-ACADEMIC VENUES (SELECTED) “In India, no toilets for women” Op Ed in The Hindu, July 11, 2015

"Whether Anyone Deserves to Die" The Telegraph July 1, 2014

"Not Earth's Girl: Post-Colonial Kali and the Alleged Pathology of Patriotism" Op.ed The Telegraph October 23, 2011

The 's Funeral: The News of Ramchandra Gandhi’s Sudden Death is Stunning, , The Telegraph, Kolkata. June 17, 2007,

Philosopher and Teacher: Peter Strawson. The Telegraph, Kolkata. Feb 21, 2006,

RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN LITERARY JOURNALS IN BENGALI (SELECTED) Joramorsho (On Aging) Anushtup, Kolkata October, 2016

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Ami aar aamar mon (I and my Mind) (Editorial Preface to Posthumously Published Monograph by ) Anustup, Kolkata, April 2016

Cartoon bonaam cartouge (Cartoon versus Bullets: on the Charlie Hebdo massacre) Ei Samay, January 17, 2015

Jasho-dehi (On Fame) Ei Samay, Times of India Bengali Newspaper, October 24,25, 26, 2014

Prem Pothe Shob Baadhaa (On Love’s Difficulties) Anushtup, October 2014

Alokkhir Upaashona, OpomAner Shomotaa (On Worship of Counter-Prosperity and Equality in Insult) Anandabazar Patrika, Nov 14, 2012

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