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Jonardon Ganeri

January 01, 1970

Jonardon Ganeri, FBA, is a philosopher, specialising in philosophy of mind and in South Asian and Buddhist philosophical traditions. He holds the Bimal Matilal Distinguished Professorship in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was Global Network Professor in the College of Arts and Science, New York University, previously having taught at several universities in Britain. Ganeri graduated from Churchill College, Cambridge, with his undergraduate degree in mathematics, before completing a DPhil in philosophy at University and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford. He has published eight monographs, and is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy. He is on the editorial board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Philosophy East & West, Analysis, and other journals and monograph series.[1][2] His research interests are in consciousness, self, attention, the epistemology of inquiry, the idea of philosophy as a practice and its relationship with literature. He works on the history of ideas in early modern South Asia, intellectual affinities between India and Greece, and Buddhist philosophy of mind, teaches courses in the philosophy of mind, the nature of subjectivity, Buddhist philosophy, the history of Indian philosophical traditions, and supervises graduate students on South Asian philosophical texts in a cross-cultural context. He is a prominent advocate for an expanded role for cross-cultural methodologies in philosophical research, and for enhanced cultural diversity in the philosophical curriculum. Jonardon Ganeri is the inventor of the idea of "cosmopolitan philosophy" as a new discipline within philosophy.[3]

Jonardon Ganeri

Philosophical Work edit

In the philosophy of mind, Jonardon Ganeri advances the view, in his book The Self, that our concept of self is constitutively grounded in the fact that subjects are beings who own their ideas, emotions, wishes, and feelings. He argues that the self is a unity of three strands of ownedness: normative, phenomenological, and subpersonal. In a different book, Attention, Not Self, he argues that when early Buddhists deny that there is a self, what they are rejecting is the conception of self as the willing agent, an inner origin of willed directives. For early Buddhists like Buddhaghosa the real nature of mental activity is in the ways we pay attention. So the relation between the two books is that Attention, Not Self clears the ground for the sort of conception of self defended in The Self. His earlier book, The Concealed Art of the Soul, explores thinking about selfhood in a range of Upaniṣadic, Vedāntic, Yogācāra and Mādhyamika philosophers, under the rubric of the idea that the self is something that conceals itself from itself.

In the history of philosophy, Ganeri argues that modernity is not a uniquely European achievement. In The Lost Age of Reason, he shows how there emerges in 17th century India a distinctive version of modernity in the work of the so-called “new reason” (Navya-nyāya) philosophers of Bengal, Mithilā, and Benares. These thinkers confronted the past and thought of themselves as doing something very new, as intellectual innovators. The innovativeness of this group of philosophers is also the subject of his earlier book, Semantic Powers, revised and restructured for the second edition entitled Artha, which aims to demonstrate that they made discoveries in linguistics and the philosophy of language which were not seen in Europe until the late 20th century. These include discoveries about the meaning of proper names, pronominal anaphora, testimony, and the relationship between epistemology and meaning theory.

Ganeri has also written about the philosophy of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. His book, Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves, is the first English language monograph about Pessoa's philosophy written by a philosopher. Ganeri argues that Pessoa's notion of the heteronym can be used to solve some of the trickiest puzzles in the global history of the philosophy of self. His second book about Pessoa, Fernando Pessoa: Imagination and the Self, locates the notion of heteronymy in many sources in classical Indian philosophy.

Honours and awards edit

In 2015, Ganeri was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Also in 2015, Ganeri won the Infosys Prize in the category of humanities, the first philosopher to do so.[2] Ganeri delivered the 2009 Pranab. K. Sen Memorial Lecture at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, the 2016 Brian O'Neil Memorial Lectures at the University of New Mexico, and the 2017 Daya Krishna Memorial Lecture at the University of Rajasthan. In 2019, Ganeri delivered a convocation address at Ashoka University, Delhi.[1] Ganeri is giving the 2024 John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford.

Writings edit

Books edit

  • Fernando Pessoa: Imagination and the Self (Oxford University Press, 2024).
  • Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide (Columbia University Press, 2021).
  • Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves: Fernando Pessoa and his Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2021).
  • Classical Indian Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2021), co-authored with Peter Adamson.
  • Attention, Not Self (Oxford University Press, 2017/2020).
  • (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2017/2021).
  • The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness and the First-Person Stance (Oxford University Press, 2012/2015).
  • The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450–1700 (Oxford University Press, 2011/2014).
  • The Concealed Art of the Soul: Theories of Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2007).
  • Artha: Testimony and the Theory of Meaning in Indian Philosophical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2006).
  • Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason (Routledge, 2001).
  • Semantic Powers (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Selected Essays edit

  • “Is this me? A story about personal identity from the Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa/ Dà zhìdù lùn,” British Journal of the History of Philosophy 29.5 (2021), pp. 739–762, with Jing Huang.
  • “Pessoa’s imaginary India,” in Fernando Pessoa & Philosophy, edited by Bartholomew Ryan, Giovanbattista Tusa, and Antonio Cardiello (Boulder, Co.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
  • “Epistemic pluralism: from systems to stances,” Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2019): 1–21.
  • “Mental time travel and attention,” Australasian Philosophical Review 1.4 (2018): 353–373.
  • “Epistemology from a Sanskritic point of view,” in Epistemology for the Rest of the World, edited by Masaharu Mizumoto, Stephen Stich and Eric McCready (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 12–21.
  • “Illusions of immortality,” in Imaginations of Death and Beyond in India and Europe, edited by Sudhir Kakar and Günter Blamberger (Delhi: Springer, 2018), pp. 35–45.
  • “What is philosophy? A cross-cultural conversation in the cross-roads court of Chosroes,” The Harvard Review of Philosophy 24 (Spring 2017): 1–8.
  • “The wandering ascetic and the manifest world,” in Hindu Law: A New History of Dharmaśāstra, edited by Patrick Olivelle and Don Davis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 442–454.
  • “Attention to greatness: Buddhaghosa,” in Stephen Hetherington ed., What Makes a Philosopher Great? (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 67–85.
  • “Freedom in thinking: Intellectual decolonisation and the immersive cosmopolitanism of K. C. Bhattacharyya,” in The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 718–736.
  • “Śrīharṣa’s dissident epistemology: Of knowledge as assurance,” in The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 522–538.
  • “Philosophical modernities: polycentricity and early modernity in India,” Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 74 (2014): 75–94.
  • “Philosophy as a way of life: spiritual exercises from the Buddha to Tagore,” in Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns. Essays in Honour of Pierre Hadot, edited by Michael Chase, Stephen Clark and Michael McGhee (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2014), pp. 116–131.
  • “Dārā Shikoh and the transmission of the Upaniṣads to Islam,” in Migrating Texts and Traditions, edited by William Sweet (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2012), pp. 150–161.
  • “The geography of shadows: souls and cities in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials,” Philosophy & Literature 35 (2011): 269–281, with Panayiota Vassilopoulou.
  • “Apoha, feature-placing, and sensory content,” in Buddhist Semantics and Human Cognition, edited by Arindam Chakrabarti, Mark Siderits and Tom Tillemans (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), pp. 228–246.
  • “Emergentisms, ancient and modern,” Mind 120 (July 2011): 671–703.
  • “Subjectivity, selfhood, and the use of the word ‘I’,” in Self, No-self ?, edited by Dan Zahavi, Evan Thomson and Mark Siderits (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 176–192.
  • “Can you seek the answer to this question? The paradox of inquiry in India,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (2010): 571–594, with Amber Carpenter.
  • “Intellectual India: reason, identity, dissent”, New Literary History 40.2 (2009): 248–263.
  • “Sanskrit philosophical commentary: reading as philosophy”, Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 25.1 (2008): 107–127.
  • “What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow: The philosophical double in Mauni’s fiction,” in The Poetics of Shadows: The Double in Literature and Philosophy, edited by Andrew Hock Soon Ng (Hanover: Ibidem-Verlag, March 2008). pp. 109–122.
  • “Towards a formal regimentation of the Navya-Nyāya technical language I,” in Logic, Navya-Nyāya and Applications: Homage to Bimal Krishna Matilal, edited by Mihir Chakraborty, Benedikt Loewe and Madhabendra Mitra (London: College Publications, 2008), pp. 109–124.
  • “Contextualism in the study of Indian philosophical cultures,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 36 (2008): 551–562.
  • “Universals and other generalities,” in Peter F. Strawson and Arindam Chakrabarti, eds. Universals, Concepts and Qualities: New Essays on the Meaning of Predicates (London: Ashgate 2006), pp. 51–66.
  • “Ancient Indian logic as a theory of case-based reasoning,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 31 (2003): 33–45.
  • “An irrealist theory of self,” The Harvard Review of Philosophy 12 (Spring 2004): 61–80.
  • “The ritual roots of moral reason,” in Thinking Through Rituals: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Kevin Schilbrack (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 207–233.
  • “Indian Logic”, in Handbook of the History of Logic, Volume 1: Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic, edited by D.M. Gabbay and J. Woods (North Holland: Elsevier, 2004), pp. 255–332.
  • “Jaina logic and the philosophical basis of pluralism”, History and Philosophy of Logic 23 (2002): 267–281.
  • “Worlds in conflict: Yaśovijaya Gaṇi’s cosmopolitan vision,” International Journal of Jaina Studies 4.1 (2008): 1–11.
  • “Objectivity and proof in a classical Indian theory of number”, Synthese 129.3 (2001): 413–437.
  • “Argumentation, dialogue and the Kathāvatthu,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 29.4 (2001): 485–493.
  • “Cross-modality and the self,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61.3 (2000): 639–658.
  • “Dharmakīrti’s semantics for the quantifier only”, in Shoryu Katsura ed., Dharmakīrti’s Thought and Its Impact on Indian and Tibetan Philosophy (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften, 1999), pp. 101–116.

References edit

  1. ^ "Jonardon Ganeri". utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  2. ^ a b "Professor Jonardon Ganeri | British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  3. ^ Ganeri, Jonardon. "Blueprint for Cosmopolitan Philosophy". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

January 01, 1970
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Jonardon Ganeri FBA is a philosopher specialising in philosophy of mind and in South Asian and Buddhist philosophical traditions He holds the Bimal Matilal Distinguished Professorship in Philosophy at the University of Toronto He was Global Network Professor in the College of Arts and Science New York University previously having taught at several universities in Britain Ganeri graduated from Churchill College Cambridge with his undergraduate degree in mathematics before completing a DPhil in philosophy at University and Wolfson Colleges Oxford He has published eight monographs and is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy He is on the editorial board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy the British Journal for the History of Philosophy Philosophy East amp West Analysis and other journals and monograph series 1 2 His research interests are in consciousness self attention the epistemology of inquiry the idea of philosophy as a practice and its relationship with literature He works on the history of ideas in early modern South Asia intellectual affinities between India and Greece and Buddhist philosophy of mind teaches courses in the philosophy of mind the nature of subjectivity Buddhist philosophy the history of Indian philosophical traditions and supervises graduate students on South Asian philosophical texts in a cross cultural context He is a prominent advocate for an expanded role for cross cultural methodologies in philosophical research and for enhanced cultural diversity in the philosophical curriculum Jonardon Ganeri is the inventor of the idea of cosmopolitan philosophy as a new discipline within philosophy 3 Jonardon Ganeri Contents 1 Philosophical Work 2 Honours and awards 3 Writings 3 1 Books 3 2 Selected Essays 4 ReferencesPhilosophical Work editIn the philosophy of mind Jonardon Ganeri advances the view in his book The Self that our concept of self is constitutively grounded in the fact that subjects are beings who own their ideas emotions wishes and feelings He argues that the self is a unity of three strands of ownedness normative phenomenological and subpersonal In a different book Attention Not Self he argues that when early Buddhists deny that there is a self what they are rejecting is the conception of self as the willing agent an inner origin of willed directives For early Buddhists like Buddhaghosa the real nature of mental activity is in the ways we pay attention So the relation between the two books is that Attention Not Self clears the ground for the sort of conception of self defended in The Self His earlier book The Concealed Art of the Soul explores thinking about selfhood in a range of Upaniṣadic Vedantic Yogacara and Madhyamika philosophers under the rubric of the idea that the self is something that conceals itself from itself In the history of philosophy Ganeri argues that modernity is not a uniquely European achievement In The Lost Age of Reason he shows how there emerges in 17th century India a distinctive version of modernity in the work of the so called new reason Navya nyaya philosophers of Bengal Mithila and Benares These thinkers confronted the past and thought of themselves as doing something very new as intellectual innovators The innovativeness of this group of philosophers is also the subject of his earlier book Semantic Powers revised and restructured for the second edition entitled Artha which aims to demonstrate that they made discoveries in linguistics and the philosophy of language which were not seen in Europe until the late 20th century These include discoveries about the meaning of proper names pronominal anaphora testimony and the relationship between epistemology and meaning theory Ganeri has also written about the philosophy of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa His book Virtual Subjects Fugitive Selves is the first English language monograph about Pessoa s philosophy written by a philosopher Ganeri argues that Pessoa s notion of the heteronym can be used to solve some of the trickiest puzzles in the global history of the philosophy of self His second book about Pessoa Fernando Pessoa Imagination and the Self locates the notion of heteronymy in many sources in classical Indian philosophy Honours and awards editIn 2015 Ganeri was elected a Fellow of the British Academy FBA the United Kingdom s national academy for the humanities and social sciences Also in 2015 Ganeri won the Infosys Prize in the category of humanities the first philosopher to do so 2 Ganeri delivered the 2009 Pranab K Sen Memorial Lecture at Jadavpur University Kolkata the 2016 Brian O Neil Memorial Lectures at the University of New Mexico and the 2017 Daya Krishna Memorial Lecture at the University of Rajasthan In 2019 Ganeri delivered a convocation address at Ashoka University Delhi 1 Ganeri is giving the 2024 John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford Writings editBooks edit Fernando Pessoa Imagination and the Self Oxford University Press 2024 Inwardness An Outsider s Guide Columbia University Press 2021 Virtual Subjects Fugitive Selves Fernando Pessoa and his Philosophy Oxford University Press 2021 Classical Indian Philosophy Oxford University Press 2021 co authored with Peter Adamson Attention Not Self Oxford University Press 2017 2020 ed The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy Oxford University Press 2017 2021 The Self Naturalism Consciousness and the First Person Stance Oxford University Press 2012 2015 The Lost Age of Reason Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450 1700 Oxford University Press 2011 2014 The Concealed Art of the Soul Theories of Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology Oxford University Press 2007 Artha Testimony and the Theory of Meaning in Indian Philosophical Analysis Oxford University Press 2006 Philosophy in Classical India The Proper Work of Reason Routledge 2001 Semantic Powers Oxford University Press 1999 Selected Essays edit Is this me A story about personal identity from the Mahaprajnaparamitopadesa Da zhidu lun British Journal of the History of Philosophy 29 5 2021 pp 739 762 with Jing Huang Pessoa s imaginary India in Fernando Pessoa amp Philosophy edited by Bartholomew Ryan Giovanbattista Tusa and Antonio Cardiello Boulder Co Rowman amp Littlefield 2021 Epistemic pluralism from systems to stances Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2019 1 21 Mental time travel and attention Australasian Philosophical Review 1 4 2018 353 373 Epistemology from a Sanskritic point of view in Epistemology for the Rest of the World edited by Masaharu Mizumoto Stephen Stich and Eric McCready Oxford Oxford University Press 2018 pp 12 21 Illusions of immortality in Imaginations of Death and Beyond in India and Europe edited by Sudhir Kakar and Gunter Blamberger Delhi Springer 2018 pp 35 45 What is philosophy A cross cultural conversation in the cross roads court of Chosroes The Harvard Review of Philosophy 24 Spring 2017 1 8 The wandering ascetic and the manifest world in Hindu Law A New History of Dharmasastra edited by Patrick Olivelle and Don Davis Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 pp 442 454 Attention to greatness Buddhaghosa in Stephen Hetherington ed What Makes a Philosopher Great London Routledge 2017 pp 67 85 Freedom in thinking Intellectual decolonisation and the immersive cosmopolitanism of K C Bhattacharyya in The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 pp 718 736 Sriharṣa s dissident epistemology Of knowledge as assurance in The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 pp 522 538 Philosophical modernities polycentricity and early modernity in India Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 74 2014 75 94 Philosophy as a way of life spiritual exercises from the Buddha to Tagore in Philosophy as a Way of Life Ancients and Moderns Essays in Honour of Pierre Hadot edited by Michael Chase Stephen Clark and Michael McGhee Oxford Blackwell Publishing 2014 pp 116 131 Dara Shikoh and the transmission of the Upaniṣads to Islam in Migrating Texts and Traditions edited by William Sweet Ottawa University of Ottawa Press 2012 pp 150 161 The geography of shadows souls and cities in Philip Pullman s His Dark Materials Philosophy amp Literature 35 2011 269 281 with Panayiota Vassilopoulou Apoha feature placing and sensory content in Buddhist Semantics and Human Cognition edited by Arindam Chakrabarti Mark Siderits and Tom Tillemans New York Columbia University Press 2011 pp 228 246 Emergentisms ancient and modern Mind 120 July 2011 671 703 Subjectivity selfhood and the use of the word I in Self No self edited by Dan Zahavi Evan Thomson and Mark Siderits Oxford Oxford University Press 2010 pp 176 192 Can you seek the answer to this question The paradox of inquiry in India Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 2010 571 594 with Amber Carpenter Intellectual India reason identity dissent New Literary History 40 2 2009 248 263 Sanskrit philosophical commentary reading as philosophy Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 25 1 2008 107 127 What you are you do not see what you see is your shadow The philosophical double in Mauni s fiction in The Poetics of Shadows The Double in Literature and Philosophy edited by Andrew Hock Soon Ng Hanover Ibidem Verlag March 2008 pp 109 122 Towards a formal regimentation of the Navya Nyaya technical language I in Logic Navya Nyaya and Applications Homage to Bimal Krishna Matilal edited by Mihir Chakraborty Benedikt Loewe and Madhabendra Mitra London College Publications 2008 pp 109 124 Contextualism in the study of Indian philosophical cultures Journal of Indian Philosophy 36 2008 551 562 Universals and other generalities in Peter F Strawson and Arindam Chakrabarti eds Universals Concepts and Qualities New Essays on the Meaning of Predicates London Ashgate 2006 pp 51 66 Ancient Indian logic as a theory of case based reasoning Journal of Indian Philosophy 31 2003 33 45 An irrealist theory of self The Harvard Review of Philosophy 12 Spring 2004 61 80 The ritual roots of moral reason in Thinking Through Rituals Philosophical Perspectives edited by Kevin Schilbrack London Routledge 2004 pp 207 233 Indian Logic in Handbook of the History of Logic Volume 1 Greek Indian and Arabic Logic edited by D M Gabbay and J Woods North Holland Elsevier 2004 pp 255 332 Jaina logic and the philosophical basis of pluralism History and Philosophy of Logic 23 2002 267 281 Worlds in conflict Yasovijaya Gaṇi s cosmopolitan vision International Journal of Jaina Studies 4 1 2008 1 11 Objectivity and proof in a classical Indian theory of number Synthese 129 3 2001 413 437 Argumentation dialogue and the Kathavatthu Journal of Indian Philosophy 29 4 2001 485 493 Cross modality and the self Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 3 2000 639 658 Dharmakirti s semantics for the quantifier only in Shoryu Katsura ed Dharmakirti s Thought and Its Impact on Indian and Tibetan Philosophy Wien Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften 1999 pp 101 116 References edit Jonardon Ganeri utoronto ca Retrieved 2024 03 11 a b Professor Jonardon Ganeri British Academy British Academy Retrieved 2018 04 30 Ganeri Jonardon Blueprint for Cosmopolitan Philosophy a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jonardon Ganeri amp oldid 1220675209, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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