Jonardon Ganeri
Biographic Data
| ID | 484746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonardon Ganeri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonardon |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganeri |
| SIGNATURE | GANERI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4938-678X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Blueprint for cosmopolitan philosophy: A post-Eurocentric proposal
I defend a cosmopolitan conception of philosophy. I construct a typology of cosmopolitan philosophical skill around a division into seven categories: assimilative, autonomous, comparative, diasporist, imperious, bicultural, and interjacent. I also try to begin to think through what kinds of reform of the academy will best serve to create institutions that foster the skills I identify as most helpful for philosophical progress. My paper is a refle…
Interjacent Intellectuals
I argue that as we move in the twenty-first century we need a new paradigm in global philosophy, which I call “interjacency.” Philosophical authenticity in an age of rapid globalization must take a new form, one which respects the fact that one’s intellectual location is to lie both among and between many worlds of thought. My argument will be that JanMohamed’s important typology for the border intellectual therefore needs to be supplemented; tha…
Fernando Pessoa: Imagination and the Self
An Irrealist Theory of Race
In this article I draw upon an analogy between a debate in the critical philosophy of race over the metaphysics of race and a debate in Buddhist philosophy of mind over the metaphysics of selves. I argue that there is a defensible irrealist theory of race, corresponding to the performativist theory of self found in certain Buddhist thinkers
Fernando Pessoa: The Poet as Philosopher
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) lived what was in many ways an astonishingly modern, transcultural, and translingual life. He was born in Lisbon, the point of departure for Vasco da Gama's voyage to India as commemorated by Pessoa's forebear, the poet Luís de Camões. Pessoa grew up in Anglophone Durban, acquiring a lifelong love for English poetry and language. Returning to Lisbon, from where he would never again leave, he set himself the goal of tra…
Is this me?A story about personal identity from the Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa / Dà zhìdù lùn
In a Buddhist treatise from around the fourth century CE there is a very remarkable story which serves as a thought experiment calling us to question the nature of self and the identity of persons. Lost in Sanskrit, the passage is fortunately preserved in a Chinese translation, the Dà zhìdù lùn. We here present the first reliable translation directly from the Classical Chinese, and discuss the philosophical significance of the story in its histor…
Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves: Fernando Pessoa and his philosophy
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) has become many things to many people in the years that have passed since his untimely death. For some he is simply the greatest Portuguese poet of the 20th century. For others he has gradually emerged as a forgotten voice in 20th century modernism. And yet Pessoa was also a philosopher, and it is only very recently that the philosophical importance of his work has begun to attract the attention it deserves. Pessoa com…
Ethno-Epistemology: New Directions for Global Epistemology
PPR Symposium on Attention, Not Self
Classical Indian Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 5
Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India. They begin with the earliest extant literature, the Vedas, and the explanatory works that these inspired, known as Upani.sads. They also discuss other famous texts of classical Vedic culture, especially the Mah=abh=arata and its most notable section, the Bhagavad-G=ita, alongside the rise of Bud…
Indian philosophy: A Reader
Epistemic Pluralism: From Systems to Stances
Drawing on insights from the epistemological work of the Jaina philosophers of classical India, I argue in defense of epistemic pluralism, the view that there are different but equally valid ways of knowing the world. The version of epistemic pluralism I defend is stance pluralism, a pluralism about epistemic stances or perspectives, understood to be policies or stratagems of knowing. I reject the view that the correct way to characterize epistem…
Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Contexts of Indian Secularism
Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi shared the view that India’s nationalism made secularism unnecessary, for secularism is a notion whose conceptual genealogy is in a specific historical context, an idea designed to repair the damaging effects of European nation-state formation. An alternative Indian nationalism was to consist in a reconstruction of what they took to be India’s unselfconsciously pluralist traditions; the genuine and lived plura…
Philosophy as a Distinct Cultural Practice
This chapter analyzes the cultural features in the ancient world that led to the emergence of philosophy as a distinct cultural activity and examines the way in which Indian philosophy, in contrast to the cases of Greece and China, may be understood in relation to these cultural features. It examines the influence of the technology of writing, as well as of natural-scientific inquiry, especially in the domain of health and medicine, and the trans…
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy tells the story of philosophy in India through a series of exceptional individual acts of philosophical virtuosity. It brings together forty leading international scholars to record the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute philosophy in the geographical region of the Indian subcontinent, a region sometimes nowadays designated South Asia. The chapters provide a synopsis of the livelies…
Reply to Jay Garfield
Journal Article Reply to Jay Garfield Get access Jonardon Ganeri Jonardon Ganeri University of Sussex, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 255, April 2014, Pages 346–347, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqt051 Published: 11 January 2014
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Well-Ordered Science and Indian Epistemic Cultures: Toward a Polycentered History of Science
This essay defends the view that "modern science," as with modernity in general, is a polycentered phenomenon, something that appears in different forms at different times and places. It begins with two ideas about the nature of rational scientific inquiry: Karin Knorr Cetina's idea of "epistemic cultures," and Philip Kitcher's idea of science as "a system of public knowledge," such knowledge as would be deemed worthwhile by an ideal conversation…
Concealed Art of the Soul: Theories of Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology
The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700
Ganeri tells the story of a period in intellectual history, when Indian philosophy moved into the modern era. Philosophers no longer defer to ancient authorities, but draw upon their insights to seek a true understanding of knowledge, self and reality
The lost age of reason: Philosophy in early modern India, 1450-1700
Ganeri tells the story of a period in intellectual history, when Indian philosophy moved into the modern era. Philosophers no longer defer to ancient authorities, but draw upon their insights to seek a true understanding of knowledge, self and reality.
Navadvīpa
This chapter begins by describing how Navadvīpa became the intellectual focal point in the early modern world, followed by the analysis of origins of the ‘new reason’ philosophy. It examines Raghunātha Śiromaṇi's achievement and identifies the reasons why he was able to follow the via moderna and reject the via antiqua of his predecessors. Raghunātha Śiromaṇi is the first modern philosopher and was also responsible for the emergence of the ‘new r…
Intellectual India: Reason, Identity, Dissent
The "idea of India" is indeed an open, assimilative, and spacious one, sustaining a plurality of voices, orthodox and dissenting, of many ages, regions, and affiliations. Modern Indian identities in the global diaspora, as much as in India itself, can call upon all these voices and traditions, rethink them, adapt and modify them, use the resources of reason they make available in deliberation about who to be, how to behave, and on what to agree. …
Contextualism in the Study of Indian Intellectual Cultures
Words that Burn: Why did the Buddha say what he did
Self-Intimation, Memory and Personal Identity
Epistemic Pluralism: From Systems to Stances
Drawing on insights from the epistemological work of the Jaina philosophers of classical India, I argue in defense of epistemic pluralism, the view that there are different but equally valid ways of knowing the world. The version of epistemic pluralism I defend is stance pluralism, a pluralism about epistemic stances or perspectives, understood to be policies or stratagems of knowing. I reject the view that the correct way to characterize epistem…
Well-Ordered Science and Indian Epistemic Cultures: Toward a Polycentered History of Science
This essay defends the view that "modern science," as with modernity in general, is a polycentered phenomenon, something that appears in different forms at different times and places. It begins with two ideas about the nature of rational scientific inquiry: Karin Knorr Cetina's idea of "epistemic cultures," and Philip Kitcher's idea of science as "a system of public knowledge," such knowledge as would be deemed worthwhile by an ideal conversation…
Argumentation, Dialogue and the Kathāvatthu
Contextualism in the Study of Indian Intellectual Cultures
Traditions of Truth – Changing Beliefs and the Nature of Inquiry
Ancient Indian Logic as a Theory of Case-Based Reasoning
Meaning and reference in classical India
The Hindu Syllogism: Nineteenth-Century Perceptions of Indian Logical Thought
Dharmak?rti on inference and properties
K??a? And Other Names: Accounts of p?ribh?sik?terms in ny?ya and vai?esika texts
Meaning and reference in classical India
The Hindu Syllogism: Nineteenth-Century Perceptions of Indian Logical Thought
Self-Intimation, Memory and Personal Identity
Cross-Modality and the Self
The thesis of this paper is that the capacity to think of one's perceptions as crossmodally integrated is incompatible with a reductionist account of the self. In ?2 I distinguish three versions of the argument from cross-modality. According to the 'unification' version of the argument, what needs to be explained is one's capacity to identify an object touched as the same as an object simultaneously seen. According to the 'recognition' version, w…
Objectivity And Proof In A Classical Indian Theory Of Number
Argumentation, Dialogue and the Kathāvatthu
Philosophy in classical India: An Introduction and Analysis
Annotation
The Character of Logic in India
The character of logic in India / , The character of logic in India / , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
Why Truth? The Snake Sūtra
Why truth? The snake Sūtra
Ancient Indian Logic as a Theory of Case-Based Reasoning
Traditions of Truth – Changing Beliefs and the Nature of Inquiry
Words that Burn: Why did the Buddha say what he did
Contextualism in the Study of Indian Intellectual Cultures
Intellectual India: Reason, Identity, Dissent
The "idea of India" is indeed an open, assimilative, and spacious one, sustaining a plurality of voices, orthodox and dissenting, of many ages, regions, and affiliations. Modern Indian identities in the global diaspora, as much as in India itself, can call upon all these voices and traditions, rethink them, adapt and modify them, use the resources of reason they make available in deliberation about who to be, how to behave, and on what to agree. …
The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700
Ganeri tells the story of a period in intellectual history, when Indian philosophy moved into the modern era. Philosophers no longer defer to ancient authorities, but draw upon their insights to seek a true understanding of knowledge, self and reality
The lost age of reason: Philosophy in early modern India, 1450-1700
Ganeri tells the story of a period in intellectual history, when Indian philosophy moved into the modern era. Philosophers no longer defer to ancient authorities, but draw upon their insights to seek a true understanding of knowledge, self and reality.
Navadvīpa
This chapter begins by describing how Navadvīpa became the intellectual focal point in the early modern world, followed by the analysis of origins of the ‘new reason’ philosophy. It examines Raghunātha Śiromaṇi's achievement and identifies the reasons why he was able to follow the via moderna and reject the via antiqua of his predecessors. Raghunātha Śiromaṇi is the first modern philosopher and was also responsible for the emergence of the ‘new r…
Concealed Art of the Soul: Theories of Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology
Well-Ordered Science and Indian Epistemic Cultures: Toward a Polycentered History of Science
This essay defends the view that "modern science," as with modernity in general, is a polycentered phenomenon, something that appears in different forms at different times and places. It begins with two ideas about the nature of rational scientific inquiry: Karin Knorr Cetina's idea of "epistemic cultures," and Philip Kitcher's idea of science as "a system of public knowledge," such knowledge as would be deemed worthwhile by an ideal conversation…
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy tells the story of philosophy in India through a series of exceptional individual acts of philosophical virtuosity. It brings together forty leading international scholars to record the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute philosophy in the geographical region of the Indian subcontinent, a region sometimes nowadays designated South Asia. The chapters provide a synopsis of the livelies…
Reply to Jay Garfield
Journal Article Reply to Jay Garfield Get access Jonardon Ganeri Jonardon Ganeri University of Sussex, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 255, April 2014, Pages 346–347, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqt051 Published: 11 January 2014
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