Excelsior Correspondent
KATRA, May 10: The Department of Philosophy and Culture, SMVDU, organizes an extension lectures for faculty and research scholars, wherein Prof Alex Watson delivered three talks on different themes on Indian Philosophy.
Prof Watson is a D Phil. from Oxford University and had been Fellow at Kyushu University Japan and University of Vienna. He specializes in Indian Philosophy, Kashmir Shaivism, Nyaya Philosophy and is an outright scholar of Sanskrit. Presently, he is a Professor of Indian Philosophy at Ashoka University, Sonipat.
He delivered a talk on ‘Four Mimamsa views concerning how the self is perceived by itself’ in which he highlighted upon the various views on ‘self’ in Indian philosophy and gave special emphasis on the views of Jayanta Bhatta – a great Indian Philosopher of 9th century hailing from Kashmir. During the following two days, he will be speaking on ‘Can Jayanta Bhatta respond effectively to the charge that the inference of God’s existence’ and ‘Contrasting Nyaya-Vaisesika and Buddhist explanations of attention’.
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