Subject Code: HS4L011	Subject Name: Indian Philosophical Perspectives on Substance	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit: 3
Pre-Requisite(s): Prior exposure is not required Objective of Course: This course is designed to make the students familiar with philosophical approaches to a problem on which modern physics has made many original and experimentally tested contributions: the problem of Substance. The concepts and methods of Ancient Indian philosophical and pre-philosophical thought are applied to this problem, taking into account wider philosophical perspectives from Europe (Aristotle) and India (late Vedic texts, Sāṁkhya, Vaiśeṣika, Vedānta). This course can be followed after, or parallel to, the course “Introduction to Indian philosophy”. Suggested Books: Aubenque, Pierre. Le problème de l’être chez Aristote. Essai sur la problématique aristotélicienne. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France. Bronkhorst, Johannes. A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought. Translated and edited by Johannes Bronkhorst. New York: Columbia University Press. Bronkhorst, Johannes.. Language and Reality: On an Episode in Indian Thought. Leiden: E.J. Brill. Halbfass, Wilhelm.. India and Europe: An Essay in Philosophical Understanding. Indian Edition. (First edition: Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.) Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass., 1990 Halbfass, Wilhelm. 1992. On Being and What There Is. Albany: State University of New York Press., 1992 Hattori, Masaaki. 1968. Dignāga, On Perception, being the Pratyakṣapariccheda of Dignāga’s Pramāṇasamuccaya. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press., 1968 Houben, Jan E.M. 1995. The Saṁbandha-samuddeśa (chapter on relation) and Bhartrhari's philosophy of language. Gonda Indological Series, 2. Groningen: Egbert Forsten., 1995 Jambuvijaya, Muni (ed.). 1966, 1976, 1988. Dvādaśāraṁ Nayacakraṁ of Ācārya Śrī Siṁhasūri Gaṇi Vādi Kṣamāśrama; part 1 (1-4 Aras); part 2 (5-8); part 3 (9-12). Bhavnagar : Sri Jain Atmanand Sabha., 1976 Knight, David M. 1970. Classical Scientific Papers – Chemistry, Second Series: Papers on the Nature and Arrangement of the Chemical Elements, Arranged and Introduced. London: Mills and Boon., 1970 Oldenberg, Herman. 1919. Weltanschauung der Brāhmaṇa-texte: Vorwissenschaftliche Wissenschaft. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht., 1919 Owen, Joseph. 1951. The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics: A Study in the Greek Background of Mediaeval Thought. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies., 1951 Poortman, J.J. (transl. N.D. Smith) 1978. Vehicles of consciousness : the concept of hylic pluralism (ochēma). Volumes I-IV. Utrecht: The Theosophical Society in the Netherlands, in association with the Theosophical Publishing House., 1978

Subject Code: HS4L011

Subject Name: Indian Philosophical Perspectives on Substance

L-T-P: 3-0-0

Credit: 3

Pre-Requisite(s): Prior exposure is not required

Objective of Course:

This course is designed to make the students familiar with philosophical approaches to a problem on which modern physics has made many original and experimentally tested contributions: the problem of Substance. The concepts and methods of Ancient Indian philosophical and pre-philosophical thought are applied to this problem, taking into account wider philosophical perspectives from Europe (Aristotle) and India (late Vedic texts, Sāṁkhya, Vaiśeṣika, Vedānta). This course can be followed after, or parallel to, the course “Introduction to Indian philosophy”.

Suggested Books:

Aubenque, Pierre. Le problème de l’être chez Aristote. Essai sur la problématique aristotélicienne. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France.
Bronkhorst, Johannes. A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought. Translated and edited by Johannes Bronkhorst. New York: Columbia University Press.
Bronkhorst, Johannes.. Language and Reality: On an Episode in Indian Thought. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Halbfass, Wilhelm.. India and Europe: An Essay in Philosophical Understanding. Indian Edition. (First edition: Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.) Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass., 1990
Halbfass, Wilhelm. 1992. On Being and What There Is. Albany: State University of New York Press., 1992
Hattori, Masaaki. 1968. Dignāga, On Perception, being the Pratyakṣapariccheda of Dignāga’s Pramāṇasamuccaya. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press., 1968
Houben, Jan E.M. 1995. The Saṁbandha-samuddeśa (chapter on relation) and Bhartrhari's philosophy of language. Gonda Indological Series, 2. Groningen: Egbert Forsten., 1995
Jambuvijaya, Muni (ed.). 1966, 1976, 1988. Dvādaśāraṁ Nayacakraṁ of Ācārya Śrī Siṁhasūri Gaṇi Vādi Kṣamāśrama; part 1 (1-4 Aras); part 2 (5-8); part 3 (9-12). Bhavnagar : Sri Jain Atmanand Sabha., 1976
Knight, David M. 1970. Classical Scientific Papers – Chemistry, Second Series: Papers on the Nature and Arrangement of the Chemical Elements, Arranged and Introduced. London: Mills and Boon., 1970
Oldenberg, Herman. 1919. Weltanschauung der Brāhmaṇa-texte: Vorwissenschaftliche Wissenschaft. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht., 1919
Owen, Joseph. 1951. The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics: A Study in the Greek Background of Mediaeval Thought. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies., 1951
Poortman, J.J. (transl. N.D. Smith) 1978. Vehicles of consciousness : the concept of hylic pluralism (ochēma). Volumes I-IV. Utrecht: The Theosophical Society in the Netherlands, in association with the Theosophical Publishing House., 1978