The Two Solutions to the Riddle Of Human Life - Sri Aurobindo points out that as it moves towards a conclusion, the Gita provides a succinct summary of its entire central meaning, ensuring that the seeke...
Sri Aurobindo is the only authority as a philosopher - Tusar Nath Mohapatra on 5 August 2014 said: Ganeri may be a granary of knowledge but he errs on giving an academic, artificial, or abstract repre...
Hindu Philosophy in the NY Times! - Our colleague Jonardon Ganeri has an interview with Gary Gutting on the Old Gray Lady’s website. Does this mean that Indian philosophy has gone mainstream?...
Varieties of Power and Onto-Cartography - The term “power” is highly ambiguous. In one signification, power can refer to the capacities of an entity; to what that entity can do. Water has the pow...
No Newton of the Grass Blade: On the impossibility of scientific genius in Kant’s “Critique of Judgment” - In preparation for a lecture on mind and nature in German Idealism, I’m working my way through Kant’s third of three critiques, the Critique of the Power o...
World's absurdity - human history is going nowhere -Schopenhauer's originality does not reside in his characterization of the world as Will, or as act — for we encounter this position in Fichte's philosophy ...
Paradigms in Wilber and MacIntyre - I have juxtaposed the works of Ken Wilber and Alasdair MacIntyre against each other more than once here. They are at odds in many respects, and MacIntyre o...
Is democracy the question? - Perhaps the most pertinent question to be asked of Egypt’s revolutionary/counter-revolutionary process in the past three years is this: how can we properly...
Individuals, books, sites and institutions challenging materialism - I’ve put together here a list of books, scientists, philosophers and organizations (online and “physical”!) who are challenging the materialistic views whi...
Waiting for emancipation: the prospects for liberal revolution in Africa - MP3 of the Audrey Richards lecture in African Studies at Cambridge University, 22nd May 2014 This was an improvised talk lasting 49 minutes. It contains se...
“They don’t like spam” - The talk I am preparing for next month’s science fiction workshop in Berlin (where I will be speaking together with Iain Hamilton Grant) (event listing her...
Where does mathematics come from? - Is mathematics invented or discovered? Do mathematical objects pre-exist in some transcendental plane, are they abstractions of our sensory experiences, or...
Paul Krugman is Evil. Just Kidding. #Bitcoin - Paul Krugman picked the wrong geeks to mess with. His recent potshots at Bitcoin made him an easy target for Bitcoiners. As a rabid Bitcoin evangelist myse...
Integrality and Embodiment in Jean Gebser and Sri Aurobindo – Debashish Banerji - This paper compares the idea of the "integral consciousness" in Jean Gebser and Sri Aurobindo in terms of their philosophies of history and draws out the i...
Post-Foundational Mathematics as (Met)a-Gaming - Mathematics is a fundamentally human activity, and a semiotic one at that, which is to say, it is an activity of making and using signs in relation to the ...