Conversational Narrative and the Moral Self: Stories of Negotiated Properties from South India.LeelaPrasad -2004 -Journal of Religious Ethics 32 (1):153 - 174.detailsThis article presents material from my ethnographic study in Śringēri, south India, the site of a powerful 1200yearold Advaitic monastery that has been historically an interpreter of ancient Hindu moral treatises. A vibrant diverse local culture that provides plural sources of moral authority makes Sringeri a rich site for studying moral discourse. Through a study of two conversational narratives, this essay illustrates how the moral self is not an ossified product of written texts and codes, but is dynamic, gen dered, (...) and emergent, endowed with historical and political agency and an aesthetic capacity that mediates many normative sources to articulate "appropriate" conduct. In so doing, the essay shows the value of including oral narrative in ethical inquiry, especially in narrative ethics, which, for most part, has focused on written sources. (shrink)
Pañcadaśī: Vedānta prakriyāno mukha grantha. Mādhava -2004 - Amadāvāda: Sarasvatī Pustaka Bhaṇḍāra. Edited by Īcchārāma Sūryarāma Desāī.detailsCompendium of the Advaita philosophy with Candrakānta vivaraṇa Gujarati commentary and translation.
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Jaiminīyanyāyamālā: Prakāśikāvyākhyāyutā. Mādhava, Prabhākaraprasāda &Radhavallabh Tripathi -2012 - Navadehalī: Śrīlālabahāduraśāstrīrāṣṭriyasaṃskr̥tavidyāpīṭham. Edited by Prabhākaraprasāda.detailsVerse treatise, with Prakasika commentary, on fundamentals of the Mīmāṃsā school in Hindu philosophy.
Taittirīyaka-vidyā-prakāśaḥ =. Mādhava &Bithika Mukerji -2009 - Varanasi: Indica Books. Edited by Bithika Mukerji.detailsOn Advaita philosophy; commentary on Taittīriyopaniṣad.
Non-violence and the other a composite theory of multiplism, heterology and heteronomy drawn from jainism and Gandhi.Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad -2003 -Angelaki 8 (3):3 – 22.details(2003). Non-violence and the other A composite theory of multiplism, heterology and heteronomy drawn from jainism and gandhi. Angelaki: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 3-22.
Cognitive architectures have limited explanatory power.Prasad Tadepalli -2003 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (5):622-623.detailsCognitive architectures, like programming languages, make commitments only at the implementation level and have limited explanatory power. Their universality implies that it is hard, if not impossible, to justify them in detail from finite quantities of data. It is more fruitful to focus on particular tasks such as language understanding and propose testable theories at the computational and algorithmic levels.
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad in Conversation with Bruce Janz, Jessica Locke, and Cynthia Willett.Bruce B. Janz,Jessica Locke,Cynthia Willett &Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad -2019 -Journal of World Philosophies 4 (2):124-153.detailsBruce Janz, Jessica Locke, and Cynthia Willett interact in this exchange with different aspects of Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad’s book Human Being, Bodily Being. Through “constructive inter-cultural thinking”, they seek to engage with Ram-Prasad’s “lower-case p” phenomenology, which exemplifies “how to think otherwise about the nature and role of bodiliness in human experience”. This exchange, which includes Ram-Prasad’s reply to their interventions, pushes the reader to reflect more about different aspects of bodiliness.
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Gender-based differences in perception of a just society.Jyoti N.Prasad,Nancy Marlow &Richard E. Hattwick -1998 -Journal of Business Ethics 17 (3):219-228.detailsIn this study, 191 subjects, 93 male and 98 female undergraduate business students, were asked to respond to a 51 item questionnaire to examine their perception of what constituted a "just society". The subjects agreed on 16 characteristics which a just society would have. Out of 51 there were only 10 statements whereon average responses showed significant differences based on gender.
Saving the self: Classical hindu theories on consciousness and contemporary physicalism.C. Ram-Prasad -2001 -Philosophy East and West 51 (3):378-392.detailsContemporary consciousness studies, where it is not explicitly religious, is mostly physicalist. Theories of self and consciousness in classical Hindu thought can easily be seen to contribute to religious issues in consciousness studies. But it is also the case that there is much in that that can be useful within broadly physicalist parameters of study as well. The Mīmāṃsā and Nyāya schools, while having (nonphysicalist) soteriological goals for the metaphysical self, nonetheless provide theories of its relationship with consciousness that allow (...) for interpretative strategies that can make their theories relevant to a broadly physicalist study of consciousness. Advaita Vedānta cannot be so interpreted, but its inquiry into the nature of consciousness can provide material for a fundamental critique of the project of objectifying consciousness. (shrink)
Capitalizing Disease.AmitPrasad -2009 -Theory, Culture and Society 26 (5):1-29.detailsRecent success of Indian engineers, businessmen, as well as other technically qualified professionals has created an obsession with knowledge and creativity. Documents like India as a Knowledge Superpower have proliferated and we continually hear the mantra of investing in and harnessing of human capital. There are, however, several strands of human capital in India and not all of them harness knowledge and creativity. People on whom drugs are being tested represent one such human capital, which, even though it is being (...) energetically mobilized to provide India with a strategic advantage in the world market, also highlights the contradictions within India’s shifting imaginary, economy and politics. Drug trials in India, in the context of neoliberal globalization, not only challenge and complicate, but also operate within a constellation of divisions — labor/capital, west/non-west, colonial/sovereign, national/global and so on. In this article I analyze how the people on whom drug testing is being done in India are being ‘harnessed’ as human capital, which leads to politicization of ‘bare life’ through ‘inclusive-exclusion’. (shrink)
Divine self, human self: the philosophy of being in two Gita commentaries.Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad -2013 - London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic.detailsThe Gita is a central text in Hindu traditions, and commentaries on it express a range of philosophical-theological positions. Two of the most significant commentaries are by Sankara, the founder of the Advaita or Non-Dualist system of Vedic thought and by Ramanuja, the founder of the Visistadvaita or Qualified Non-Dualist system. Their commentaries offer rich resources for the conceptualization and understanding of divine reality, the human self, being, the relationship between God and human, and the moral psychology of action and (...) devotion. This book approaches their commentaries through a study of the interaction between the abstract atman (self) and the richer conception of the human person. While closely reading the Sanskrit commentaries, Ram-Prasad develops reconstructions of each philosophical-theological system, drawing relevant and illuminating comparisons with contemporary Christian theology and Western philosophy. (shrink)
Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics: An Outline of Indian Non-realism.Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad -2002 - Psychology Press.detailsBased on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'. This is the view that an independent, external world must be assumed if the features of cognition are to be explained, but that it cannot be proved that there is such a (...) world, independently of an appeal to cognition itself. This position is constructed against idealist denials of externality, realist arguments for an independent world and the sceptical denial of the coherence of cognition. (shrink)
Dreamless sleep and soul: A controversy between vedanta and buddhism.H. S.Prasad -2000 -Asian Philosophy 10 (1):61 – 73.detailsIn this paper, perhaps the first of its kind, an attempt is made to elucidate and examine the Vedantic theory of soul constructed on the basis of the experience of dreamless sleep which, being radically and qualitatively different from waking and dreaming states, is considered by the Vedantins as a state of temporarily purified individual soul (atman), a state of pure substantial consciousness. They take the experience of dreamless sleep as a model experience of the soul's final liberation from the (...) body and its internal as well as external faculties. The ultimate liberation, according to the Vedantins, is a state of total identification of the individual soul with the Universal Soul (Brahman), the summum bonum of every Vedantin. The paper also includes a critique of the Vedantic soul theory by the Buddhists who vehemently deny any autonomous and substantial soul whose essence is unchangingly permanent, pure consciousness and self-illuminating knowledge. The soul is instead interpreted by the Buddhists as a product of the functioning of a person's psycho-physical organism and a mere subject of knowing, thinking, desiring, etc. The analysis further shows that the Vedanta, especially the Advaita Vedanta, metaphysics of soul is inadequate in many respects and mainly based on a priori and scriptural arguments and emotive appeals, whereas the Buddhists deny any kind of autonomous and permanent agent of knowing, thinking and desiring by successfully reducing substantial consciousness to mere acts of knowing. (shrink)
The Phenomenal Separateness of Self: Udayana on Body and Agency.Chakravathi Ram-Prasad -2011 -Asian Philosophy 21 (3):323-340.detailsClassical Indian debates about ātman—self—concern a minimal or core entity rather than richer notions of personal identity. These debates recognise that there is phenomenal unity across time; but is a core self required to explain it? Contemporary phenomenologists foreground the importance of a phenomenally unitary self, and Udayana's position is interpreted in this context as a classical Indian approach to this issue. Udayana seems to dismiss the body as the candidate for phenomenal identity in a way similar to some Western (...) philosophers. He also provides some inkling of how alternative ways of defending phenomenal unity without self fail. A criticism of some Western phenomenological theories of self is that they do not explain how unity is provided by the ‘mineness’ of cognition. Udayana's suggestion that a sort of agency provides such an explanation can be developed as an original argument for a phenomenally unitary self. (shrink)
Entrepreneurship Amid Concurrent Institutional Constraints in Less Developed Countries.AjneshPrasad &Theodore A. Khoury -2016 -Business and Society 55 (7):934-969.detailsTo encourage new research on the role of institutions in the entrepreneurial process in less developed countries, the authors propose a conceptual framework to investigate concurrent institutional constraints. The authors define these constraints as geopolitical contexts that encounter simultaneous challenges to well functioning formal and informal institutions. Systems of stronger institutions compensating for weaker institutions are hampered in these settings and such systems weigh heavier on local entrepreneurs and further challenge their ability to mobilize resources and access market opportunities. By (...) investigating the extreme operating conditions of these settings, scholars gain a deeper understanding of how entrepreneurs confront operational dilemmas and express agency through engaging with bricolage and cultural entrepreneurship. To animate these proposals, the authors consider a case illustration of a venture operating under such constraints. (shrink)
The Anubhūtiprakāśa of Vidyāraṇya: the philosophy of Upaniṣads, an interpretative exposition. Mādhava -1992 - Madras: University of Madras. Edited by Godabarisha Mishra.detailsEpitome of twelve principal Upanishads, Hindu Advaita classics.
Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge: Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology.Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad -2007 - Routledge.detailsThis book presents a collection of essays, setting out both the special concern of classical Indian thought and some of its potential contributions to global philosophy. It presents some key arguments made by different schools about this special concern: the way in which attainment of knowledge of reality transforms human nature in a fundamentally liberating way. It then goes on to look in detail at two areas in contemporary global philosophy - the ethics of difference, and the metaphysics of consciousness (...) - where this classical Indian commitment to the spiritually transformative power of knowledge can lead to critical insights, even for those who do not share its presuppositions. Close reading of technical Indian texts is combined with wide-ranging and often comparative analysis of philosophical issues, to derive original arguments from the Indian material through an analytic method that is seldom mastered by philosophers of non-western traditions. (shrink)
Jiḍḍu Kr̥ṣṇamūrti nāku telusā?N. LakshmiPrasad -2013 - Haidarābād: Nīlaṃrāju Lakṣmīprasād.detailsOn the life and philosophy of Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1895-1986, Indian philosopher.
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Making Images/making Bodies: Visibilizing and Disciplining through Magnetic Resonance Imaging.AmitPrasad -2005 -Science, Technology, and Human Values 30 (2):291-316.detailsThis article analyzes how the medical gaze made possible by MRI operates in radiological laboratories. It argues that although computer-assisted medical imaging technologies such as MRI shift radiological analysis to the realm of cyborg visuality, radiological analysis continues to depend on visualization produced by other technologies and diagnostic inputs. In the radiological laboratory, MRI is used to produce diverse sets of images of the internal parts of the body to zero in and visually extract the pathology. Visual extraction of pathology (...) becomes possible, however, because of the visual training of the radiologists in understanding and interpreting anatomic details of the whole body. These two levels of viewing constitute the bifocal vision of the radiologists. To make these levels of viewing work complementarily, the body, as it is presented in the body atlases, is made notational. (shrink)
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Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology From Classical India.Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad -2018 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.detailsChakravarthi Ram-Prasad offers illuminating new perspectives on contemporary phenomenological theories of body and subjectivity, based on studies of diverse classical Indian texts. He argues for a 'phenomenological ecology' of bodily subjectivity in health, gender, contemplation, and lovemaking.