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**History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China**

Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers, and Karyn Lai to represent the philosophical traditions of ancient India, Africa and the African diaspora, and classical China. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.

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HPI 26 - Francis Clooney on Vedanta Oct 02, 2016

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Francis Clooney joins us to discuss the religious and philosophical aspects of Vedānta.

HPI 25 - Communication Breakdown - Bhartrihari on Language Sep 18, 2016

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The grammarian Bhartṛhari argues that the study of language is the path to liberation, because the undivided reality underlying language is brahman.

HPI 24 - No Two Ways About It - Sankara and Advaita Vedanta Sep 04, 2016

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Śaṅkara and his “non-dual” (Advaita) Vedānta, which teaches that only brahman is real, and the world of experience and individual self are mere illusion.

Summer Reading Aug 06, 2016

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How to fill the month of August while the podcast is on summer break. Buy the book versions of the podcast at Oxford University Press.

HPI 23 - Source Code - Badarayana’s Vedanta-sutra Jul 24, 2016

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The founding text of the Vedānta school, the Vedānta- or Brahma-Sūtra, interprets the Upaniṣads as teaching that all things derive from brahman.

HPI 22 - Elisa Freschi on Mimamsa Jul 10, 2016

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Mīmāṃsā expert Elisa Freschi speaks to Peter about philosophical issues arising from the interpretation of the Veda.

HPI 21 - Innocent Until Proven Guilty - Mimamsa on Knowledge and Language Jun 26, 2016

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The Mīmāṃsā school put their faith in sense experience, and argue that the Veda, and hence language itself, had no beginning.

HPI 20 - Master of Ceremonies - Jaimini’s Mimamsa-Sutra Jun 12, 2016

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In the Mīmāṃsā school’s founding text, Jaimini systematizes Vedic ritual and explores its theoretical basis.

HPI 19 - When in Doubt - the Rise of Skepticism May 29, 2016

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Skeptical tendences in Indian thought and responses to skepticism from the Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta schools.

HPI 18 - A Tangled Web - the Age of the Sutra May 14, 2016

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Rival philosophical schools proliferate and subdivide in our second major historical period, the “age of the sūtra.”

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