| Post: | Professor in Philosophy |
| Location: | Arts B B338 |
| Email: | J.Ganeri@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 7653 |
| UK: | (01273) 877653 |
| International: | +44 1273 877653 |
Role
Jonardon Ganeri holds an AHRC Research Project Grant (2008-2011), in conjunction with Professor Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi of the University of Lancaster. The six staff in this project are investigating a variety of conceptions of self and responses to the no-self theory of the Indian Buddhists. The project web-site is here. His work for this project includes a demonstration of the Indian origins of emergentism. Some of his work ha been presented in lectures while a visiting professor at l'Ecole des haute études en science sociales in Paris, May and June 2009.
He is the holder of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2007-2009), studying the dynamic and innovative philosophical world of 16th-17th century India. The project will result in a monograph The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). His keynote talk at the Sivdasani Oxford Conference 2009 on an aspect of the theme is available as a podcast, which also intersects with his participation in Sheldon Pollock's project Sanskrit Knowledge Systems on the Eve of Colonialism [here].
He is publishing a monograph, Intellectual India: Reason, Identity, Dissent, on cosmopolitan constructions of identity and the application of public and practical reason, the title essay of which forms part of the current issue of the journal New Literary History, with commentary from Martha Nussbaum.
He is a member of the Board of Editors of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and with Jay Garfield and Jan Westerhoff is putting together a section of new entries on Indian and Tibetan Philosophy. His own entry is here. These 30+ entries, each about 10,000 words in length with extensive bibliographies, will offer instructors full resources for a complete course in Indian philosophy. His syllabus for Indian Philosophy on the Philosophy B.A. at the University of London is in the London Philosophy Guide [here].
He is an editor of the volume Philosophy as Therapeia (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010). The volume argues that the model of philosophy as 'medicine for the soul' reaffirms philosophy's historical identity as a global intellectual practice.
He has co-authored an article on Indian theory about the paradox of inquiry, appearing in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy with the title "Can you seek the answer to this question?" here. The article exemplifies a new way of combining Greek and Sanskrit philosophical source materials.
He has published a work on conceptions of self in Indian ethics and epistemology, The Concealed Art of the Soul (Oxford University Press 2007) [here]. The book argues for a performativist conception of self. It is reviewed by Raymond Martin in the journal Mind here. He has published an essay on cross-modal arguments for the self in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61.3 (2000).
He has written on philosophical logic, and is a board member of the journal History and Philosophy of Logic. His work on an Indian seven-valued logic is discussed by Graham Priest here. His book on Indian theories of rationality, Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason (Routledge 2001) [here] is reviewed by Brendan Gillon in Mind here. He has also worked on semantic theory, his books Semantic Powers (1999) [here] and Artha:Meaning (2006) [here] are published by Oxford University Press. His research into Indian philosophy of mathematics is published in Synthese 129.3 (2001).
He has translated Ratnakirti's Refutation of Different Streams, an eleventh century Buddhist work on the problem of other minds. He is now editing and translating a later work on a related theme, the manuscript of which is held in a private library in Nepal.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and l'Ecole des haute études en science sociales; and a research fellow at King's College London, the London School of Economics, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla. He is a life member of Clare Hall and a member of common room at Wolfson College Oxford.
He is currently supervising two doctoral students. Shalini Sinha is writing about the mind-body problem in Prasastapada's non-Cartesian substance dualism, and Peter Sahota is working on Jayanta Bhatta's arguments for the unity of consciousness.
In 2010, he will be speaking on July 12 at a conference on Indian philosophy contiguous with the Joint Session in Dublin; on September 22 at the AHRC project conference on the self in Brighton; and on December 2 at a one-day conference on the self at Gresham College London [here]. He has provisionally agreed, subject to funding, to speak at the First Asian Philosophy Congress in Delhi on March 6-9 [here], and at a workshop on Indian Logics in Hamburg on June 3-6.
The curriculum vitae and some publications of Jonardon Ganeri are here.
His correspondence email address is jonardon.ganeri@cantab.net.
Publications
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