Sutras & Stuff: A Philosophy Podcast

In this episode, I talk with Bryan Van Norden, Professor of philosophy at Vassar College in the United States about how he came to Indian philosophy, what he enjoys about teaching it, as well as connections between ideas about knowing in Indian and Chinese philosophy.

Further Resources

Bryan Van Norden’s website: http://www.bryanvannorden.com/

“Less Commonly Taught Philosophies” bibliography: http://www.bryanvannorden...

Content note: There's one instance of the "F-word" in English towards the end of the interview.

In this episode, I talk with Andrew Bailey, Associate Professor of philosophy at Yale-NUS College in Singapore about the Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna and analytic metaphysics, Gandhi on technology, and Nyaya philosophers on inference.

Further Resources

Andrew Bailey’s website: https://www.andrewmbailey.com/

Nagarjuna: https://plato.stanford...

In this episode, I talk with Christine Tan, Philosophy Lecturer at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, about Indian materialism, skepticism, and overlaps with Chinese Philosophy.

Further Resources

Christine Tan’s website: https://tanchristineabigail.com/

Guo Xiang: https://iep.utm.edu/guoxiang/

Cārvāka: https://iep.utm...

In this episode, I talk with Jay Garfield, Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, about the Buddhist philosopher Candrakirti and how teaching Indian philosophy at Yale-NUS impacted his understanding of Western philosophers like Hume.

Further Resources

Jay Garfield’s website: https://jaygarfield.org/ 

David Hume:

https://plato.stanford...

In this episode, I talk with Matthew Walker, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS, about ancient philosophy, therapeutic arguments, reading practices, and the Bhagavad Gita.

Further Resources

Matt Walker’s website: https://sites.google.com/site/mattwalker2000/home

Aristotle on the Uses of Contemplation: https://www.cambridge...

In this episode, I talk with Cathay Liu, Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, about philosophical systems and both Indian and European philosophy in the 17th century.

Further Resources

Rene Descarteshttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/

The Tarkasamgraha at https://archive...

In this episode, I talk with Robin Zheng, Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, about connections between social practices and knowing in premodern Indian philosophy and contemporary feminist philosophy.

Further Resources:

Robin Zheng’s website: https://www.robin-zheng.me/

Helen Longino: https://philosophy.stanford.edu/people/helen-longino

Miranda Fricker: https://www.mirandafricker.com/

Christy Dotson: https://lsa.umich...

In this episode, I talk with Tom Davies, Seymour Reader in Ancient History and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, about how understanding Indian philosophy in relationship with the rest of the ancient world helps us reflect on what philosophy is, as a human activity, in different cultural contexts.

Note: This is the final episode of the regular season, concluding the series of interviews with philosophers who taught Philosophy and Political Thought at Yale-NUS...