Jack Beaulieu, a graduate from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and now a Fellow by Examination (Junior Research Fellow) in Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, works on the history of Sanskrit philosophy, focusing on philosophers belonging to the Nyāya and Prābhākara traditions. Dr. Beaulieu works broadly in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, with his research to date focusing primarily on absence.
Sayeh Meisami is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton who has published several books and articles in the fields of philosophy and religion. In line with her interdisciplinary interests, she also has articles on the significance of poetic techniques of thinking and writing in later Islamic philosophy and sufism, and her ongoing research focuses on the continuity of mythological and philosophical discourses in the Persianate context.
Marcus Schmücker is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In addition to interdisciplinary work in the fields of theology and philosophy, his research interests focus on the traditions of Advaita Vedānta and Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta.
Hannah Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and a faculty affiliate with the Center for East Asian Studies at Arizona. She works on aesthetics, metaphysics, and Asian philosophy, and has recently been bringing together literary theory and close reading with analytic philosophy to study fiction across cultures and media.
Clinton Tolley is a professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego and works in the areas of the history of modern philosophy, philosophy of culture, and social philosophy.
The aim of this international workshop, organized by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and held at the Department of Philosophy at the UTM campus, will be to read and translate a critique of an influential Buddhist theory of yogic perception offered by the Sanskrit philosopher and polymath Vācaspati Miśra.
The conference, organized by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and held at the Department of Philosophy at the UTM campus, will bring together experts who will lead two-hour reading sessions on key passages of Kumārila’s texts and provide participants with the necessary tools to understand the hidden gems of Kumārila’s philosophy
This conference, organized by Pirachula Chulanon & Reza Hadisi and hosted jointly by the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, will bring together scholars from different traditions to explore alternate pathways for theorizing epistemic achievements and virtues.
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is a Distinguished Professor of comparative religion and philosophy at Lancaster University and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests include Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy of epistemology, metaphysics, and phenomenology, and classical Indian religions.
Eric Hutton is a visiting professor from the University of Utah. His research focuses on Chinese philosophy, Greek philosophy, and ethics. On the Chinese side, he focuses on the pre-Qin period, especially Confucianism. On the Greek side, his work centers around the moral/political views of Plato and Aristotle.
Amod Sandhya Lele is the associate director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University. They also run the Love of All Wisdom Substack newsletter and co-author the Indian Philosophy Blog.
Amit Chaturvedi, an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong, has a particular interest in the contributions of Indian philosophical traditions to contemporary debates concerning non-conceptual perception and reflexive self-awareness.
