Projects

Section 1

Series

Foundations of Philosophy in India

Section 2

Series

Classics of Indian Philosophy

Edited Volumes

An Anthology of Indian Philosophy

Collected Papers of

E. C. G. Sudarshan

Section 3

Journals

Samvid: E-Journal

Philosophy and Foundations of Science

Staff Directory

Faculty

(Hon. Professors)

Kamal Datta

Editor, CPECGS

(kdatta@cpfs.org)

Rupamanjari Ghosh

Editor, CPECGS

(rghosh@cpfs.org)

Mohini Mullick

Secretary

Board of Trustees

(mmullick@cpfs.org)

Ranjit Nair

Director

(rnair@cpfs.org)

Office

Anshu Dogra

Programme Executive

(adogra@cpfs.org)

A. Hamza

Secretarial Assistant

(ahamza@cpfs.org)

Raj Kumar

Office Assistant

(rajk@cpfs.org)

Section 1 Foundations of Philosophy in India: A New Series from Oxford University Press, India

Editorial Board: Arindam Chakrabarti, Mrinal Miri, J.N. Mohanty, Ranjit Nair (Co-ordinator), G.C. Pande

The overall aim of the series is to make available, at the turn of the century, a critical reassessment of the philosophical achievement of the classical Indian tradition in a form that will enable it to contribute to the dialogue between civilizations of the century that follows. Although a wealth of literature is already available in translation, it exists in scattered form and is primarily oriented towards philological - rather than philosophical - concerns.

The series will, uniquely in the history of scholarship in this area, focus on concepts and theories, rather than the conventional schools. The objective in each case will be to provide a rigorous and analytical examination of the key arguments and doctrines in a manner that makes them available for contemporary engagement and reflection.

One of the strengths of this series will be its emphasis on the communication of ideas in a clear and coherent form. It will draw on the resources of international scholarship and address a world audience. Although there is interest worldwide in Indian philosophy, the absence of a corpus of texts which presents the contents of the tradition in a scholarly, well-researched, yet accessible format, has long been a handicap. The series aims at filling this gap in a systematic and comprehensive manner.

A total of 12 volumes are planned, on the following topics. Sat: Being, Samsara: Becoming, Cit: Consciousness, Atman: The Self, Karma: Action, Dharma: The Right, Moksa: Emancipation, Jnana: Knowledge, Nyaya: Reason, Artha: Meaning, Kala: Time, Loka: World

E-mail: fpi@cpfs.org

Section 2 Classics of Indian Philosophy: Penguin Classics Series

Editorial Advisors: Sibajiban Bhattacharyya, Wilhelm Halbfass, Mohini Mullick, Ranjit Nair, N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya, J. Vattanky

This unique series of translations from the Sanskrit aims at making available in English, in a scholarly and systematic manner, the works of the classic philosophers of India. Although acknowledged by the cognoscenti as seminal figures in the history of thought, these philosophers have not been accessible to a wider audience on account of the paucity and inadequacy of translations. The series will address this lacuna. From Nagarjuna (c. 150 CE) to Gangesa (c. 1350 CE), these thinkers represent a tradition that engaged in a sustained analytical examination of a wide variety of philosophical problems ranging over metaphysics, logic and epistemology. Their questions remain as challenging and their answers as instructive as when they were first articulated. Each volume will assemble key readings from the oeuvre of an individual philosopher, accompanied by an introduction, notes and bibliography. These handy reference works will be useful to laymen and scholars alike. The philosophers will be chosen from the following chronologically ordered list:

Nāgārjuna, Umāsvāti, Vasubandhu, Vātsyāyana, Bhartŗhari, Diŋnāga, Praśastapāda, Uddyotakara, Dharmakīrti, Kumārila, Prabhākara, Mandana Miśra, Śamkara, Padmapāda, Sureśvara, Jayarāśi, Jayanta Bhatta, Vācaspati Miśra, Udayana, Hemacandra, Rāmānuja, Śrīharşa, Madhva, Gangeśa.

Beginning 2000, the first twelve volumes are slated for publication over a period of five years.

E-mail: cip@cpfs.org

An Anthology of Indian Philosophy: Darśanamanjarī

[Edited by Ranjit Nair; Editorial Advisors: Sibajiban Bhattacharyya, Wilhelm Halbfass, Mohini Mullick, N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya, J. Vattanky, R. Zakaria] Penguin India

Spanning three millennia of philosophical thought, the anthology presents selections from the classic works of the Indian philosophical tradition, from the Vedic period down to the end of the twentieth century. Philosophy, hailed as "the light of all sciences" (pradīpah sarva vidyānām) by Kautilya, has been a richly productive genre of Indian writing. The extracts included will encourage appreciation not only of the metaphysical contents of the tradition, but also of the less well known, but no less important logical and epistemological elements that were indeed foundational to the whole enterprise. Uniquely, the anthology will document the evolution of philosophical arguments between various schools over centuries, a feature which gives the tradition its cohesiveness as well as distinctiveness. Its chronological organization will follow individual philosophers, while keeping in view their respective affiliations. The anthology seeks to reflect the plural and composite nature of India's philosophical inheritance. Aimed at a general twenty-first century audience, this standard reference volume will be accompanied by an introduction, notes, bibliography and detailed cross-referencing.

E-mail: anthology@cpfs.org

Collected Papers of E. C. G. Sudarshan

Remarkable for their originality, depth and range, the pioneering contributions of E. C. G. Sudarshan over a momentous half-century in the history of theoretical physics are brought together in this three-volume set to be published by South Asian Publishers Ltd.

Vol. 1 Particles and Fields (ed. Kamal Datta)

Vol. 2 Quantum Optics (ed. Rupamanjari Ghosh)

Vol. 3 Classical and Quantum Mechanics (ed. Ranjit Nair)

Email: cpecgs@cpfs.org

Section 3 Journals

Samvid

The Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of Science E-Journal Samvid will commence quarterly publication from April 2000 (see link below). The journal will feature articles, invited lectures, reports, reviews, discussions, interviews, book notes and news.

E-mail: samvid@cpfs.org

Philosophy and Foundations of Science

A quarterly journal, to be published for the Centre by South Asian Publishers Ltd., will appear in January 2001. The following theme issues in the philosophy and foundations of quantum theory are planned. These issues will contain selected contributions from successive Congresses of Philosophy and Foundations of Science together with invited articles by leading researchers.

Vol. 1 Jan-Mar 2001 Schrödinger's Cat I

Apr-Jun 2001 Schrödinger's Cat II

July-Sep 2001 Uncertainty and Complementarity I

Oct-Dec 2001 Uncertainty and Complementarity II

Vol. 2 Jan-Mar 2002 Wave-Particle Duality I

Apr-Jun 2002 Wave-Particle Duality II

July-Sep 2002 The One and the Many I

Oct-Dec 2002 The One and the Many II

Vol. 3 Jan-Mar 2003 The Quantum Century I

Apr-Jun 2003 The Quantum Century II

July-Sep 2003 The Quantum Century III

Oct-Dec 2003 The Quantum Century IV