Purushottama Bilimoria (PhD La Trobe University, Philosophy East & West), was educated in New Zealand, Australia, India, and has held fellowships at Oxford and Harvard, and visiting professorships at State University of New York, Boston and University of California (Santa Barbara). In UC-Berkeley Purushottama held visiting chair in India Studies and Contemporary Ethics (Fall '95), and was Visiting Professor at Emory University 1999-2000 where he was also recipient of a Rockefeller Fellow with the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship and a Ford Foundation funded nominee to work (with Renuka Sharma) on Personal Laws in India for the Islamic Family Law International Project in the Emory Law School. He has held other similar fellowships. He is concurrently a Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University in Australia, and Senior Fellow with the Department of Philosophy, The University of Melbourne; He has been a visiting professor at SUNY Stony Brook, since Fall 2003 attached to the Centre for India Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Philosophy, and Humanities Institute.
Areas of specialist publications and teaching include Indian philosophy and ethics, naturalist [Samkhya-Jain] psychology, philosophy of religion, with growing specialization also In crosscultural issues in ethics, bioethics, science and religion interaction, social thought and culture, His major works have been on theories of testimony and scriptural hermeneutics, Indian ethics and Sanskritic thinking. Other interests and writings extend to Hinduism, Indologism, Gandhian philosophy of moral training (and its impact on African-American Civil Rights), art and nationalism, emotions in East and West, and diaspora/transnational studies.
He is also Editor/Publisher of the international journal 'SOPHIA' in cross-cultural philosophy of religion, a/theology and ethics (www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/sophia, and http://www.deakin.edu.au/~pbilmo/)
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Monographs Include Sabdapramana: Testimony In Indian Philosophy (1989);
with J N Mohanty, Relativism, Suffering, and Beyond (1997);
Hindu and Sikh Diaspora In Australia (1996)
with Renuka Sharma et al, Indian Ethics, Companion and Anthology to Classical and Contemporary Moral Philosophy from India (2003)
N Mohanty's Essays In Indian Philosophy Traditional and Modernity (2nd edition, 2001)
Ethics - The Philosophical Tradition (1995)
Personal Laws in India: Legal History, Constitutional Hybrids, and Communal Fall-outs (forthcoming)
Environmental Ethics (with Jock McCulloch)
Among his better known published papers are:
Hindu Doubts About God: Towards a Mimamsa Deconstruction;
Heidegger and the Japanese Connection;
Phenomenology In Australia
A Problem for Radical (onto-theos)) Pluralism
Perturbation of Desire: Emotion Disarming Ethics in The Great Song
On Sankara's Attempted Reconciliation of "You" and "I", with reference to Nagarjuna
with Renuka Sharma, "Where Silence Burns: Sati_ ('suttee') in India, Mary Daly's Gyocritique, and Resistant Spirituality'
Towards a Creative Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Ricouer's Intervention in the Gadamer-Haberms Debate,
Bimal K. Matilal's Navya-naive Realism vis-a-vis Putnam-Dummett-Mimamsa Anti-Realisms: Some Metaphysical Worries'
Legal Rulings on Suicide in India and Implications for the Rights to Die
What is the "Subaltern' of Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Postcolonial Critique of Reason: Spivak between Kant and Matilal
The Enlightenment Paradigm Of Native Right And Forged Hybridity Of Cultural Rights In British India
Animal Ethics and Ecology in Classical and Modern India
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_____________________________________________________________________ Publications
Among his better known published papers are:
AND MORE...