PART 1 (the thriving days)
http://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.c...eview.html
EXCERPT: Modern Indian philosophers once had a substantial presence in two of the most prominent English-language philosophy journals of the 20th century. The story that follows is primarily about this presence, and how and why it came to an end. The story is also about the similarity between this ending and another ending, one within modern Indian philosophy itself...
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PART 2 (analytic philosophy ended it)
http://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.c...y-joe.html
EXCERPT: [...] The disappearance of modern Indian philosophy from JoP in the 1960s coincides with the period when the journal became, more or less, an analytic philosophy only journal and, more or less, ceased to publish classical pragmatism, process philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology and more. The changes occur quickly and occur in the early 1960s...
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PART 3
http://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.c...atzav.html
EXCERPT: My post today has two primary aims. First, I aim to explain how the institutional setup of modern Indian (academic) philosophy during (roughly) the period 1925-1970 allowed it to thrive despite adverse academic circumstances in India at the time. Second, I aim to show how ties with key speculative American philosophers facilitated the publication of modern Indian philosophy in Western journals. The picture that emerges supports my earlier observations about modern Indian philosophy, observations according to which the takeover of Mind, the Philosophical Review (PR) and the Journal of Philosophy (JoP) by analytic philosophers led to the exclusion of work by modern Indian philosophers from these journals much as it led to the exclusion from these journals of Western speculative philosophy, that is, roughly, Western “philosophy that tends to focus on the provision of substantial, broad claims about the natures of the universe and humanity”....
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PART 4 (opposing opinion)
http://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.c...tthen.html
EXCERPT: [...] I think it will be evident that there is room for another kind of story. Indians didn’t generally feel intellectually equal to white people, and they didn’t have the resources to compete. Some isolated figures had the confidence and courage to produce work that could be internationally published. But they and their successors did not have the connections to the mid-century ferment to enable them to continue to sneak into these venues. They didn’t know anybody; they didn’t receive the journals; they had no way of learning logic or the other tools of the new philosophy. They didn’t even have other Indians to talk to; for the most part, they were alone. [...] Could these individuals make a sustained contribution to research as it was being conducted in Oxbridge and London, Cambridge MA and California? How?...
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http://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.c...eview.html
EXCERPT: Modern Indian philosophers once had a substantial presence in two of the most prominent English-language philosophy journals of the 20th century. The story that follows is primarily about this presence, and how and why it came to an end. The story is also about the similarity between this ending and another ending, one within modern Indian philosophy itself...
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PART 2 (analytic philosophy ended it)
http://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.c...y-joe.html
EXCERPT: [...] The disappearance of modern Indian philosophy from JoP in the 1960s coincides with the period when the journal became, more or less, an analytic philosophy only journal and, more or less, ceased to publish classical pragmatism, process philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology and more. The changes occur quickly and occur in the early 1960s...
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PART 3
http://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.c...atzav.html
EXCERPT: My post today has two primary aims. First, I aim to explain how the institutional setup of modern Indian (academic) philosophy during (roughly) the period 1925-1970 allowed it to thrive despite adverse academic circumstances in India at the time. Second, I aim to show how ties with key speculative American philosophers facilitated the publication of modern Indian philosophy in Western journals. The picture that emerges supports my earlier observations about modern Indian philosophy, observations according to which the takeover of Mind, the Philosophical Review (PR) and the Journal of Philosophy (JoP) by analytic philosophers led to the exclusion of work by modern Indian philosophers from these journals much as it led to the exclusion from these journals of Western speculative philosophy, that is, roughly, Western “philosophy that tends to focus on the provision of substantial, broad claims about the natures of the universe and humanity”....
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PART 4 (opposing opinion)
http://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.c...tthen.html
EXCERPT: [...] I think it will be evident that there is room for another kind of story. Indians didn’t generally feel intellectually equal to white people, and they didn’t have the resources to compete. Some isolated figures had the confidence and courage to produce work that could be internationally published. But they and their successors did not have the connections to the mid-century ferment to enable them to continue to sneak into these venues. They didn’t know anybody; they didn’t receive the journals; they had no way of learning logic or the other tools of the new philosophy. They didn’t even have other Indians to talk to; for the most part, they were alone. [...] Could these individuals make a sustained contribution to research as it was being conducted in Oxbridge and London, Cambridge MA and California? How?...
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