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Purushottama Bilimoria is an Australian-American philosopher and former Professor atO.P. Jindal Global University (India). He is presently teaching faculty atUniversity of San Francisco,California (USA).

He studied at theUniversity of Auckland (BA) and theUniversity of Otago (PGDiplArts), in New Zealand, and received his PhD in 1983 fromLa Trobe University in Australia. Currently, he is appointed Head of Purushottama Research Center for Philosophy and Culture of India, and Scholar at thePeoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia. He is also Principal Fellow with the School of Philosophical and Historical Studies and senior research fellow with the Australia India Institute (resigned March 2022), both in theUniversity of Melbourne, Australia.

Among his recent academic positions are:Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Fellow and Visiting Faculty atAshoka University in Delhi, India (Fall 2019); permanent senior fellow with theOxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford; distinguished teaching and senior research fellow in Indian philosophy and formerly core doctoral faculty atGraduate Theological Union in Berkeley; formerly Chancellor's Scholar, lecturer and visiting professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley; visiting scholar with the Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California at Berkeley; and honorary professor at theDeakin University. Visiting Scholar Faculty of Philosophy,Ljubljana University (Program in Indian Philosophy & Indology), andKoç University (Istanbul).

A co-founder of the Australian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy.^{[citation needed]}, he is also co-editor-in-chief of bothSophia (international journal in philosophy and traditions, withSpringer, based in University of Melbourne) andJournal of Dharma Studies (Springer), and Editor (with Amy Rayner) ofRoutledge History of Indian Philosophy (2018).^[1] He is also founder and the co-editor-in-chief of theSophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Culture (currently at 30 volumes; with Springer).

• Companion to Indian Ethics Women Justice Bioethics and Ecology (with Amy Rayner and 40 authors), Routledge 2024.
• Mind, Body and Self (edited with J L Shaw, Anand Vaidya and M. Hemmingsen), Sophia Series, Springer, 2024.
• Sustainability Interdisciplinary and Interreligious Approaches (co-edited with Rita Sherma,Springer 2021)
• Contemplative Studies and Hinduism (co-edited with Rita Sherma,Routledge 2020)
• Contemplative Studies and Jainism (co-edited with Rita Sherma, and Cogen Bohanec,Routledge 2024)
• Routledge History of Indian Philosophy (2018)
• Sabda Pramana: Word and Knowledge/Testimony in Indian Philosophy (Springer 1988; Delhi 2008)
• Why is there Nothing Rather than Something? (Sophia; 2013)
• The Indian Diaspora The Hindus and Sikhs in Australia (1996; 2015)
• The Self & its Other in Hindu Thought (2005)
• Contemporary Philosophy and J.L. Shaw (ed.) (2006)
• Essays in Indian Philosophy: Traditional and Modern (1995) (with J. Mohanty)
• The Other Revolution: NGO and Feminist Perspectives from South and East Asia (1998) (with R. Sharma).
• Emotions in Indian-Thought System (2015 with Aleksander Wenta)
• "Postcolonial Philosophy of Philosophy" (2009 with Andrew Irvine)
• "J L Shaw and Comparative Philosophy" (with Michael Hemmingsen, 2016)
• "Indian Ethics vol I Classical and Contemporary Changes (with J. Prabhu and Renuka Sharma; 2017, Routledge Paperback)
• "Indian Ethics vol II Gender Justice and Ecology (with Prabhu, Sharma and Amy Rayner) (Springer 2018)
• "Preface to Empathy Theory and Practice in Psychotheraphy by Renuka Sharma" (2014)
• "Globalization, Transnationalism, Gender and Ecological Engagement" (with Amy Rayner, 2012)
• 100+ articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, proceedings.

• Personal website
• Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies profile
• Berkeley Blog profile

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