Elisafreschi.com Website Review

these pages are a sort of virtual desktop of elisa freschi. you can find here my cv and some random thoughts on sanskrit (and) philosophy.. should you send a paper to peer-review before or after having it proof-read? should you send a paper to peer-review before or after having it proof-read and possibly edited by a native speaker (this is especially relevant if you are not a native speaker of english)? continue reading » i received from the organiser of the first south as*an studies day in bonn the attached call for papers 2018. the conference itself will take place on the 28.6.2019 in bonn. please notice also that the call for papers is in german, but that papers in both english and german are welcome. every year, when i introduce indian philosophy to my students, i deal with the problem of the alleged absence of ethics from it. i basically priori belong to philosophy and, in fact, historically, different texts have been considered philosophically relevant or not (from the suttanikāya to the presocratics, from st. augustin to levinas, from nietzsche to th. bernhard and g. leopardi). hence, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a philosophical tradition developing more, say, philosophy of language and less, say, ethics, or vice versa. that we think that there are “core” disciplines within philosophy is only the result of specific historical circu*stances. the new program of the cbc 2019 is particularly appealing and can be do*nloaded here. bādha: what is it? why did mīmāṃsā authors spend so much time elaborating on it? why is it interesting for us? shall we do when we encounter a prescription telling us to do x and then one telling us not to do x? theism as conceived in modern times, with god as one “thing” among others. this claim might raise the eyebrows of readers of julian tantamount to naturalism. the two claims are, however, less far than it might look like. a younger colleague made me aware of the fact that the distinction might not be obvious for everyone. hence, here is a short summary: