Professor Jonardon Ganeri FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Religion
- Sections
- Philosophy
Summary
Professor Ganeri's research interests are in consciousness, self, attention, the epistemology of inquiry, the idea of philosophy as a practice and its relationship with literary form, case-based reasoning, multiple-category ontologies, non-classical logics, realism in the theory of meaning, the history of ideas in early modern South Asia, the polycentricity of modernity, cosmopolitanism and cross-cultural hermeneutics, intellectual affinities between India, Greece and China, and early Buddhist philosophy of mind.
His books include The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance; The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700; The Concealed Art of the Soul; and Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason. He has published in Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Isis, New Literary History, Philosophy and Literature, Synthese, Analysis, Philosophy, in major Indology journals, and is on the editorial boards of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Philosophy East & West, Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, the Journal of Hindu Studies and other journals and monograph series. He advocates an expanded role for cross-cultural methodologies in philosophical research, together with enhanced cultural diversity in the philosophical curriculum. Professor Ganeri is the 2015 laureate of the Infosys Prize in the Humanities.
Current post
University of Toronto Bimal K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Department of the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London Professorial Research Associate
Past appointments
King's College London Visiting Professor
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Cecilia Trifogli FBA
The Medieval Latin reception of Aristotle's philosophy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, especially natural philosophy, rational psychology, and metaphysics; critical editions of Medieval Latin philosophical texts
Professor Alain De Libera FBA
The history of late Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Theology with a focus on the history of logic, philosophy of mind and metaphysics
