Stephen H.
Phillips
Professor
(Philosophy & Asian Studies)
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712 USA
512-471-5080; (fax) 512-471-4806;
(Philosophy
Department) 512-471-4857
phillips@mail.utexas.edu
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/phillips
Education
A.B.,
magna cum laude,
Harvard College, 1975.
Ph.D.,
Harvard
University, 1982.
Teaching
The
University of Texas
at Austin, Sept. 1982 - present.
Visiting
Professor,
University of Hawaii, Jan. - June 1995
Indian
Philosophies
Philosophy
of
Religion
World
Philosophy
Theory
of
Knowledge
Yoga
as
Philosophy and Practice
Contemporary
Moral Problems
Introduction
to Logic
Introduction
to Ethics
etc.
(graduate:)
Topics in Indian Philosophy: Classical Indian
Epistemology
(graduate:)
Topics in
Indian Philosophy: Realism and Idealism
(graduate:)
Nihilism,
Existentialism, and Zen
(graduate:)
Philosophy
of Religion
etc.
Scholarships
and Fellowships
Harvard
National Scholarship and Fellowship (six years).
Goethe
Institute
Scholarship, Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber, 1975.
Fulbright-Hays
Doctoral
Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, India, 1979-80.
Summer
Research Award,
The University of Texas Research Institute, 1985 and 1986.
Senior
Fellowship, American
Institute of Indian Studies, 1990-91, 1996, and 2002.
Faculty
Research
Assignment, The University of Texas Research Institute, Spring 1991,
Spring
1997, and Spring 2007.
Memberships
in Learned
Societies, Etc.
Society
for
Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Society for Indian Philosophy and
Religion,
etc. Referee, Philosophy East and West, Mind, Synthese, The
Philosophical
Quarterly,
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Sophia (editorial
board), Teaching
Philosophy,
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, various
university presses and commercial publishing houses, Program
Committee,
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 1996-2000, etc.
Publications
Books:
Yoga,
Karma, and
Rebirth. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2009 (368 pages, paperback,
hardback, and electronic book).
Proof of
Momentariness By Positive Correlation: The Ksanabhangasiddhi
Anvayatmika by Ratnakirti, text, translation, and commentary (with
Joel Feldman), forthcoming, the American Institute of Buddhist Studies,
New York.
Epistemology
of
Perception: Gangesa's Tattvacintamani, Vol. I, pratyaksa-khanda,
introduction,
translation, and commentary (with N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya). New
York:
American Institute of Buddhist Studies, distributed by Columbia
University
Press, 2004 (750 pages). Revised Indian edition,
Delhi,
Motilal
Banarsidass, 2009.
Gangesa
on the Upadhi, the "Inferential Undercutting Condition,"
introduction,
translation, and explanation (with N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya). New
Delhi:
Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2002.
Classical
Indian Metaphysics: Refutations of Realism and the Emergence of "New
Logic." Chicago:
Open Court, 1995. And in an Indian edition: Delhi: Motilal
Banarsidass,
1998.
Aurobindo's
Philosophy of Brahman.
Leiden: Brill, 1986. Revised as an e-publication (2001).
Edited
books:
Introduction
to World
Philosophy: A Multicultural Reader (with Daniel
Bonevac). New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Philosophy
of
Religion: A Global Approach. Fort
Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
Understanding
Non-Western Philosophy (with Daniel
Bonevac). Mountain View, California:
Mayfield, 1993.
Beyond
the Western Tradition: Other Readings in Ethics (with Daniel
Bonevac
and William Boone).Mountain View, California: Mayfield, 1991.
Hartshorne,
Process
Philosophy and Religion (with Robert
Kane). Albany, New York: State
University of New York Press, 1989.
Translations
from Sanskrit:
From Gangesa's Tattvacintamani, the kevala-vyatireki-prakaranam, "Negative-Only Inference," Annotated
Translation and Commentary, Logic and Belief in Indian Philosophy. Warsaw Indological
Studies,
Volume 3 (in press, 2009), pp. 435-505.
Ratnakirti's Ksanabhangasiddhi
Anvayatmika (see
above).
Selections
from the
Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Yogasutra (entire), Kularnava
Tantra, Abhinava
Gupta, and Hathayogapradipika, included as
appendices
in Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth (see above).
"From
Gangesa's Tattvacintamani: Discourse
on Perceptual Presentation of
Something as Other Than What It Is (Gangesa on Perceptual Illusion: the
anyatha-khyati-vada)," Journal
of
Indian Philosophy
28 (2000), pp. 567-650.
Selected
translations of Sanskrit philosophic texts in Classical Indian
Metaphysics (see above),
pp.
150-309.
Selected
translations of Sanskrit philosophic texts inWorld Philosophy, ed., Robert
Solomon
and Kathleen Higgins, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995).
"Gangesa
on Defining Veridical Awareness," the prama-laksana-vada section of
Gangesa's Tattvacintamani, Journal
of Indian
Philosophy
21 (1993), pp. 107-168.
Selected
translations of Sanskrit philosophic texts included in Understanding
Non-Western Philosophy, ed.,
Bonevac and Phillips (see above).
Articles:
"Nyaya,"
forthcoming Routledge Handbook of World Philosophy, ed.
Purushottama
Bilimoria.
"God' Last
World,'' Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy 18, no. 2 (2008),
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, pp. 1-12.
“Ahimsa,
‘Nonharmfulness,’ ” Encyclopedia
of Violence, Peace & Conflict, 2nd ed.,
ed. L. Kurtz. Kidlington, UK:
Elsevier, 2008 (8,000 words).
"Truth and
Falsity
in Indian Philosophy," Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd
ed.,
vol. 9, pp. 542-46.
"Engagement
with Sanskrit Philosophic Texts," Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought, ed. Arvind
Sharma and
Rita Sherma, Springer, 2008, pp. 169-78.
"Ethical
Skepticism in the
Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo," in Indian Ethics: Classical Traditions
and Contemporary Challenges, Vol I, ed.
Purushottama Bilimoria, Joseph
Prabhu, and Renuka Sharma (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 411-20.
"Self
as Locus/Substratum (adhikarana) of
Psychological Continuities and
Discontinuities," American Philosophical Association Newsletter 05(1) (Fall
2005), pp.
4-8.
"Perceiving
Particulars Blindly: Remarks on
a Nyaya-Buddhist Controversy," Philosophy East and West, vol. 54,
no. 3 (July 2004),
pp. 365-403.
"Genuine
vs. Apparent Knowledge and Justification," Evam 3.1, (2004),
pp. 201-11.
"The
Perception Chapter of GangesaÍs Tattvacintamani," Development
of Nyaya Philosophy and Its SocialContext, ed.
Sibajiban Bhattacharyya.New Delhi:
Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, ed. D. P.
Chattopadhyaya, Vol. 3, Part 3, 2004, pp. 399-423.
"The
Inference Chapter of GangesaÍs Tattvacintamani," Development of
Nyaya
Philosophy and Its Social Context, ed.
Sibajiban Bhattacharyya.New Delhi: Project
of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, ed. D. P.
Chattopadhyaya,
Vol. 3, Part 3, 2004, pp. 424-47..
"The
Universal in Classical Indian Philosophy," Evam
1.1 (the
inaugural issue, July 2002), pp. 1
10.
"Ellipsis
and Propositional
Anaphora in Gangesa's Tattvacintamani," in Time
and Sources, ed. F.
Grimal, Ecole
Francaise d'Extreme Orient, Pondicherry, India (January 2002), pp.
173-186.
"Could
There Be Mystical Evidence for a Non-Dual Brahman? A Causal Objection,"
Philosophy
East and West
51:4 (October 2001), pp. 492-506.
"There's
Nothing Wrong with Raw Perception," Philosophy East and West 51:1
(January 2001),
pp. 104-13.
"Two
Problems about Perception and Mental Intermediaries in the Nyaya
Dualism: Focus
and "Extraordinary" Sensory Connections with Perceived
Properties," Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 5
(Oct. 2000).
"The
Advance of Indian Philosophy in the Work of J. N. Mohanty," in The
Empirical and the Transcendental, ed., Bina
Gupta (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman
& Littlefield, 2000), pp. 235-40.
"Indian
Philosophy," Encarta Encyclopedia, an online
publication of Microsoft
Corporation.
"The
Error of `That': Gangesa on the Epistemology of the Memory Cognition
`That' (tad
iti),"
Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion, vol. 1
(Oct. 1996), pp. 77-85.
"Counter
Matilal's Bias: The Philosophically Respectable in Indian Spiritual
Thought," Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. III,
no. 2
(1996), pp. 173-84.
"The
Self
and Person in Indian Philosophy," in A Companion to World Philosophy, ed., Eliot
Deutsch and
Ron Bontekoe.Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1997, pp. 324-33.
"Philosophic
India Studies Since Mid-century in North America," in The Perennial
Tree,
ed., K. Satchidananda Murty and Amit Dasgupta, (New Delhi: Indian
Council for
Philosophical Research, 1996), pp. 161-76; and in Chinese translation,
in a
journal of the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, Beijing.
"Aurobindo,"
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., Edward
Craig (London and New York:
Routledge, 1998), Vol. 1, pp. 567-69.
"Awareness,
Theories of in Indian Thought," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., Edward
Craig
(London and New York: Routledge, 1998), Vol. 1, pp. 605-08.
"Brahman,"
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., Edward Craig (London and New
York:
Routledge, 1998), Vol. 2, pp. 1-5.
"Epistemology,
Indian Schools of," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., Edward
Craig
(London and New York: Routledge, 1998), Vol. 3, pp. 388-92.
"Error
and Illusion, Indian Conceptions of," Routledge Encyclopedia of
Philosophy,
ed., Edward Craig (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), Vol. 3, pp.
409-13.
"Gangesa,"
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., Edward
Craig (London and New York:
Routledge, 1998), Vol. 843-46.
"Knowledge,
Indian Views of Sources of," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., Edward
Craig
(London and New York: Routledge, 1998), Vol. 5, pp. 280-85.
"Monism,
Indian," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., Edward
Craig
(London and New York: Routledge, 1998), Vol. 6, pp. 475-79.
"Sense
Perception, Indian Views of," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., Edward
Craig
(London and New York: Routledge, 1998), Vol. 8, pp. 688-94.
"Vedanta,"
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., Edward
Craig(London and New York:
Routledge, 1998), Vol. 9, pp. 589-94.
"The
Ideal of Philosophy as Globally Informed," in The Philosophy of K.
Satchidananda Murty,
ed., Sibajiban Bhattacharyya and Ashok Vohra (New Delhi: Indian Council
for
Philosophical Research: 1995), pp. 110-120.
"Aurobindo
Ghose" (with Peter Heehs), forthcoming in the Dictionary of
Literary
Biography,
volume on British philosophers from 1900-1950.
"Sriharsa's
Ontological Argument for the Absolute, Brahman," forthcoming in a
Festschrift for R. Balasubramanian, ed., K. Srinivas and V. C. Thomas.
"Yogic
ekagrata:
The Analogical Key to Aurobindo's Philosophy," forthcoming in Philosophical
Annals
(of the Radhakrishnan Institute for Advanced Study in Philosophy,
University of
Madras).
"Mystic
Analogizing and the `Peculiarly Mystical,' " in Mysticism and
Language, ed., Steven
Katz (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 123-142.
"Does
Sri Aurobindo Have an Ontological Argument for Brahman?" Gavesana, no. 2
(February 1991),
pp. 11-17.
"Savitri
and Aurobindo's Criterion of `Spiritual Objectivity,' " Journal for
South Asian Literature 24, no. 1
(Winter and Spring, 1989), pp. 37-49.
"Mutable
God: Hartshorne and Indian Theism," included in the Hartshorne volume,
ed., Kane and Phillips, listed above, pp. 113-34.
"Mysticism
and Metaphor," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 23, no. 1
(January
1988), pp. 17-41.
"Dharmakirti
on Sensation and Causal Efficiency," Journal of Indian Philosophy 15, no. 3
(September
1987), pp. 231-59.
"Nishitani's
Buddhist Response to `Nihilism'," Journal of the American Academy
of
Religion
55, no. 1 (Spring 1987), pp. 75-104.
"Padmapada's
Illusion Argument," Philosophy East and West 37, no. 1
(January
1987), pp. 3-23.
"Aurobindo's
Concept of Supermind," International Philosophical Quarterly 25, no. 4
(December
1985), pp. 403-18.
"The
Conflict of Voluntarism and Dualism in the Yogasutra," Journal
of
Indian Philosophy
13, no. 4 (December 1985), pp. 399-414.
"The
Central Argument of Aurobindo's The Life Divine," Philosophy East
and
West
35, no. 3 (July 1985), pp. 271-84.
"Is
Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy Vedanta?" Adyar Library Bulletin 48 (1984),
pp. 1-27.
Chapters
in books:
"Indian
Philosophies," in From Africa to Zen: An Invitation to World
Philosophy, ed., Robert
Solomon
and Kathleen Higgins, 2nd revised edition, (New York: Rowman
Littlefield, 2003), pp. 201-238.
"South
Asian Philosophy," in World Philosophy, ed., Robert
Solomon
and Kathleen Higgins (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995), pp. 65-119.
"South
Asian Philosophies," in Understanding Non-Western Philosophy, ed.,
Bonevac and
Phillips (see above).
"South
Asian Philosophies," in Beyond the Western Tradition: Other
Readings in
Ethics,
ed., Bonevac, Boon, and Phillips (see above).
"Other
Gods," in Robert Solomon's Introducing Philosophy, 2nd rev.
ed., (New
York: Harcourt, 1989).
Book
reviews:
Chakravarthi
Ram-Prasad, Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought (New York:
Palgrave,
2001), Religion.
Sukharanjan
Saha, Epistemology
in Pracina and Navya Nyaya, Jadavpur
Studies in Philosophy (Kolkata: Jadavpur
University, 2000), Journal of the Indian Council for Philosophical
Research.
Joel
J.
Kupperman, Learning from Asian Philosophy (New York:
Oxford UP, 1999), Ethics.
Arvind
Sharma, ed., Modern Hindu Thought: The Essential Texts (New Delhi:
Oxford UP,
2001), The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 53, no.
212 (July 2003), pp. 456-57.
Arindam
Chakrabarti and B. K. Matilal, eds., Knowing from Words: Western
and Indian
Philosophical Analysis of Understanding and Testimony.Vol. 230, Synthese
Library: Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of
Science (Dordrecht:
Kluwar,
1994), American Philosophical Association Newsletter (December
2001).
Roy
Perrett, Hindu Ethics: A Philosophical Study (Honolulu:
University
of Hawaii Press, 1998), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, September
2001, pp.
430-31.
Jonardon
Ganeri, Semantic Powers: Meaning and the Means of Knowing in
Classical
Indian Philosophy
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), Mind 111, no. 439
(July 2001), pp. 749-53.
Robert
N.
Minor, The Religious the Spiritual and the Secular: Auroville and
Secular
India
(Albany, New York: State University of New York Press: 1999), Indo-Iranian
Journal,
Vol. 43, No. 2 (Summer 2000), pp. 182-88.
Peter
Heehs, ed., The Essential Writings of Sri Aurobindo (Delhi:
Oxford
University Press, 1998), Journal of Asian Studies 58.2 (May
1999), pp.
548-49.
P.
Bilimoria and J. N. Mohanty, eds., Relativism, Suffering and
Beyond: Essays
in Honor of Bimal K. Matilal (Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1997), Journal
of the American Oriental Society 119.2 (1999).
Joel
Marks
and Roger T. Ames, eds., Emotions in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in
Comparative Philosophy (Albany, New
York: State University of New York
Press, 1995), South Asia Graduate Research Journal, vol. 3, no.
1 (Spring
1996).
Paul
Griffiths, On Being Buddha (Albany, New
York: State University of New York
Press, 1994), International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 41 (February
1997), pp.
66-69.
Purushottama
Bilimoria, Sabdapramana, Word and Knowledge: A Doctrine in
Mimamsa-Nyaya (Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic, 1988), Philosophy East and West 45, no. 2
(April 1995),
pp. 273-280.
Sibajiban
Bhattacharyya, Gadadhara's Theory of Objectivity, 2 vols.
(New Delhi:
Indian Council of Philosophical Research: 1990), Philosophy East
and West 42, no. 4
(October
1992), pp. 669-678.
Peter
Heehs, Sri Aurobindo: A Brief Biography (Delhi:
Oxford
University Press, 1985), Philosophy East and West 41, no. 4
(October
1991), pp. 575-77.
Robert
McDermott, The Essential Steiner: The Basic Writings of Rudolph
Steiner, 1st
ed.,
Philosophy East and West 38, no. 4
(October 1988), pp. 457-58.
Mircea
Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, 3 vols.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press:
1978+), Philosophy East and West 36, no. 2
(April 1986), pp. 177-84.
John
A.
Broyer and William S. Minor, eds., Creative Interchange, a
Festschrift in honor
of Henry Nelson Wiemann (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 1982),
Faith and Philosophy 2, no. 3
(July 1985), pp. 320-22.
Papers
for Scholarly Conferences, Invited Lectures, Colloquia, Etc. (with one or
two
exceptions, not including talks given to local undergraduate
associations, yoga
clubs, business groups, etc.)
"`Teacher
Even of the Ancients' -- Yoga-sutra
1.26," Ninth Semrad Lecture, Creighton University, November 2009.
"The
Nyaya Theory of Knowledge Sources: Perception, Inference, and Testimony
as Factive, Prolific, and Trusted," Philosophy Faculty Colloquy, Baylor
University, November 2009.
"The
Epistemological Question: Nyaya on the Purpose of Pramana-sastra," Self, Knowledge,
and Reality in Indian Raditions: University of California, Berkeley,
October 2009.
"Nyaya's
pramana (Knowledge-Generators)
as Natural Kinds," Thinking Inside the Box: The Idea of a Category in
Indian Philosophy, Oxford, October 2009.
"Cannibalizing
Nyaya Epistemology," International Conference for Indian Philosophy:
World Views. Barcelona, April 2009 (read by Parimal Patel).
"The
Classical
Indian Criteriological Argument for the Existence of God,'' Marquette
University, Milwaukee, April 2008.
"From Yogic
Integration and Control to Metaphysical Holism," International Seminar
on
Understanding Consciousness, the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of
Culture,
Kolkata, January 2008.
"Internalism
as
well as Externalism in Nyaya Epistemology," Jadavpur University,
Kolkata,
January 2008.
"Sri
Aurobindo's
Metaphysical Argument for Rebirth,'' Sri Aurobindo Annual Lecture
Series,
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, January 2008.
"God's Last
World,'' Sri Aurobindo Annual Lecture Series, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata,
January 2008.
"Ahimsa
("Nonharmfulness"):
The Vedantic, Buddhist, and Jaina Arguments," Seventeenth International
Congress of Vedanta, University of Miami, Oxford, Ohio, September 2007.
"Liberation:
Gangesa's mukti-vada and Nyaya on
the Supreme Personal Good (parama-purusartha),"
University of
Chicago South Asia Seminar, Chicago, October 2006.
"Sensitivity
to Defeaters (badhaka) as
Intrinsic to Knowledge of
Inference-Warranting Concomitance (vyapti),"
International Conference on
Logic and Belief in Indian Philosophy, University of Warsaw, May 2006.
"Comments on
George
Dreyfus's 'Is Perception Intentional'," Symposium on Mind and Reality,
Columbia University, New York, February 2006.
"Negative-only
Inference" (kevalavyatirekanumana) in General
and as Proof that a Living
Body Has a Self," Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, in
association with the American Philosophical Association, New York,
December
2005.
"Self
as Locus/Substratum (adhikarana) of
Psychological Continuities and
Discontinuities," invited paper for special session on Self and
Consciousness in Indian Philosophy, American Philosophical Association,
Chicago, April 2005.
"Vedantic
Strategies on the Mind-Body Problem," Inaugural Lecture, Fourteenth
International Congress of Vedanta, University of Miami, Oxford, Ohio,
April 2004.
Chair,
Plenary Session, "Karma," Fourteenth International Congress of
Vedanta, University of Miami, Oxford, Ohio, April 2004.
"Creative
Emotion: Rasa
in the Philosophy of Eliot Deutsch," Thirteenth International Congress
of
Vedanta, University of Miami, Oxford, Ohio, September 2002.
Chair,
Second Plenary Session, "Consciousness," Thirteenth International
Congress of Vedanta, University of Miami, Oxford, Ohio, September
2002.
"The
Universal in Classical Indian Philosophy," South Asia Seminar,
University
of Texas at Austin, April 2002.
"Nyaya
Theory of Knowledge with Special Attention to Inference," Knowledge
Systems in Early and Medieval Indian Religion, Philosophy, and Social
Thought,
University of California at Berkeley, February 2002.
"The
Mind-Body Problem in Three Indian Philosophies, Sankara's Advaita
Vedanta,
Gangesa's Navya Nyaya, and Aurobindo's Theistic Monism," International
Conference on Mind and Consciousness, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, West Bengal, January 2002.
"Ahimsa and Satyagraha in the
Context of World
Oligarchy," invited lecture, Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, January 2002.
"Patriotism,
Humanity, and the War on Terrorism," Undergraduate Philosophy Lunchtime
Talk Series, University of Texas, Austin, October 2001.
"What
Analytic Philosophers Can Learn from Indian Reliabilism," invited paper
for the session, "Justification, Mental Causation, and Defeaters: An
Introduction to Indian Philosophy for Analytic Philosophers," Eastern
Division of the American Philosophical Association, New York, December
2000;
revised version presented to the Department of Philosophy, University
of Texas
at Austin, April 2002.
"The
Indian Demise of Cultural Relativism," Twelfth International Congress
of
Vedanta, University of Miami, Oxford, Ohio, September 2000.
Chair,
Special Session on Indian Philosophy conducted in Sanskrit, Twelfth
International Congress of Vedanta, University of Miami, Oxford, Ohio,
September
2000.
"`Alterity'
in Sankara," Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy in
association
with the American Philosophical Association, Albuquerque, April 2000.
"Theoretic
Minimalism Among (Advaita Vedanta) Defenders of the `Self-Illumining
Consciousness' Thesis," American Philosophical Association, Boston,
December 1999.
"Two
Problems about Perception and Mental Intermediaries in the Nyaya
Dualism: Focus
and "Extraordinary" Sensory Connections with Perceived
Properties," Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, in association
with the American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 1999.
"Ethics
and Skepticism in Eastern Enlightenment Theories," Society for Asian
and
Comparative Philosophy in association with the American Philosophical
Association, Chicago, May 1998.
"The
Inferential Vitiator and `Additional Condition' (upadhi) in
Classical Indian
`New Logic'," Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick,
April 1998.
"Is
There Mystical Evidence of a Non-Dual Brahman?A Causal Objection,"
presented to the Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii,
Honolulu,
March 1998.
Author
Responds to Critics (Classical Indian Philosophy), Department
of
Philosophy, UT, September 1997.
Review
of
R. Solomon and K. Higgins, World Philosophy, presented
as a faculty
colloquy, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, September
1997.
"Ellipsis and
Propositional Anaphora in Gangesa's Tattvacintamani," Ecole
Francaise
d'Extreme Orient, Pondicherry, India, January 1997.
"Vedanta
and Indian Philosophy," Eighth International Congress of Vedanta,
University of Miami, October, 1996.
"The
Advance of Indian Philosophy in the Work of J. N. Mohanty," American
Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 1996.
"Ignoring
the Skeptic: The Epistemology of the Classical Indian New Logic
School,"
Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, March 1995.
"Philosophic
India Studies Since Mid-century in North America," International
Symposium
on India Studies, Kerala, India, November 1994.
"Yogic
ekagrata:
The Analogical Key to Aurobindo's Philosophy," plenary presentation,
Fifth
International Congress of Vedanta, University of Miami, August 1994.
Chair,
The
Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, Fifth International Congress of Vedanta,
University of Miami, August 1994.
"Sankara
Misra on Relationality (vaisistya)," IXth
World Sanskrit Conference,
Melbourne, January 1994.
"Understanding
a Sanskrit Philosophical Text: Engagement and (versus?) Philology,"
IXth
World Sanskrit Conference, Melbourne, January 1994.
Organizer
(overall) and Chair (one session), Philosophy panels, IXth World
Sanskrit
Conference, Melbourne, January 1994.
Chair,
Western Epistemes and the Pandita Traditions, IXth World Sanskrit
Conference,
Melbourne, January 1994.
"Gangesa's
Arguments for Inherence (samavaya) as
Ontologically Ineliminable," Society
for Indian Philosophy and Religion, American Philosophical Association,
Central
Division, Chicago, April 1993.
"Vivekananda's
Translation of the Yogasutra," the Fourth
International Congress of
Vedanta, University of Miami, April 1992.
Chair,
"Aurobindo and Tagore" (panel session), Fourth International Congress
of Vedanta, University of Miami, April 1992.
"Self-Linkage,
The Two-Edged Sword of Gangesa's Epistemic Logic," Ontology Conference
sponsored
by the Philosophy Departments of Southern Methodist University and the
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, December 1991.
"Sri
Aurobindo's World View," Auroville Distinguished Speaker Series,
Auroville, India, April 1991.
"The
Pramanas of the Realists: Challenging Western Empiricists' Doxastic
Assumption," Philosophy Department, Jadavpur University, Calcutta,
February 1991.
"Normalization
of the `Metanormal': Philosophic Issues in Michael Murphy's Proposals,"
Conference on Parapsychology, Philosophy and Religion: Postmodern
Perspectives,
Center for a Postmodern World, Santa Barbara, August 1990.
"Sriharsa's
`Ontological Argument,' " International Congress of Vedanta, University
of
Miami, April 1990.
Chair,
"The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo" (panel discussion), International
Congress of Vedanta, University of Miami, April 1990.
"Toward
the Construction of a Global Theology and Spiritual World View,"
Religious
Studies Faculty Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, February 1990.
"The
Concept
of `Authoritative Testimony' in Classical Indian Epistemology,"
University
of Texas 1988-89 South Asia Seminar, March 1989.
Closing
Address, Sanskrit Database Conference, University of Texas at Austin,
October
1988.
"Bracketing
Existence: Sriharsa on the Conditions and Procedures of Debate, Indian
Council
of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, January 1988.
"Evaluating
Enlightenment Theories," Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy,
American Philosophical Association, Western Division, San Francisco,
March 1987.
"Upanishadic
Cosmologies," Southwest Conference for Asian Studies, Waco, November
1986.
"Mysticism
and Metaphor," American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, November 1986.
"A
Reply to William Alston on Religious Foundationalism," Society of
Christian Philosophers, Los Angeles, March 1986.
"Padmapada
on Perceptual Illusion," Faculty Seminar, Center for Asian Studies,
University of Texas at Austin, November 1985.
"Comments
on Joel Smith's `Nishitani's Zen Critique of Nietzsche,' " Society for
Asian and Comparative Philosophy, New York, December 1984
"Is
Alaukika-Pratyaksa a Pramana?" Southwest Conference on Asian Studies,
Houston, October 1984.
"Dharmakirti
on Sensation and Causal Efficiency," Sixth World Sanskrit Conference,
Philadelphia, October 1984, and an earlier version as a colloquy,
Department of
Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, October 1984.
"Religion
and Theory of Value," Faculty Seminar on Religion, University of Texas
at
Austin, Spring 1984.
"The
Conflict of Voluntarism and Dualism in the Yogasutra,"
International
Research Conference for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Honolulu,
August
1984, and an earlier version, South Asia Language Analysis Roundtable,
Austin,
May 1984.
Administration
and University Service at The
University of Texas at Austin (not updated since
2002)
Committee
for Promotions and Tenure, College of Liberal Arts, 1999-2000, 2000-01,
and
2001-02.
Finance
Committee,
Philosophy, 1999-2000 and 2000-01.
Search
Committee,
Philosophy, 1999-2000.
Associate
Chair,
Philosophy, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91 (Fall), 1991-92, 1998-99.
Graduate
Admissions
Committee, Philosophy, 1993-94 and 1995-96.
Religious
Studies
Committee, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1993-94.
Chair,
Colloquy
Committee, Philosophy, 1992-93.
Chair,
Curriculum
Committee, Philosophy, 1991-92.
Undergraduate
Advisor,
Philosophy, 1988-89.
Committee for
the
1988-89 South Asia Seminar.
Co-organizer,
Sanskrit
Database Conference, Austin, October 1988.
Co-director,
Sanskrit Database
Project, 1987-88 (winner of a "Project Quest" award from Apple
Computer, Inc.).
Executive
Committee,
Center for Asian Studies, 1982-83, 1985-86, and 1987-88.
Chair of the
Committee
for the 1987-88 South Asia Seminar.
updated
5 February 2008