Plans for Indian philosophy

Ok folks, I now have some concrete plans to announce for Indian philosophy. As already mentioned, I will be tackling this tradition with the help of Jonardon Ganeri, author of several books in this area. He is writing the scripts with me but the plan is that I'll still do the recording and thus be the "voice" for these episodes. The series on Indian philosophy will, we hope, launch on SEPTEMBER 20 2015, following my usual month-long summer break. When I first consulted the audience about this via social media, many people encouraged me simply to continue on with European philosophy, while others really wanted me to tackle the Indian tradition. To make sure neither group is disappointed, these episodes on India will appear in ALTERNATING WEEKS with the continuing series on medieval (i.e. Sept 20 will see the first Indian episode, Sept 27 an episode on medieval European thought, October 4 the second Indian episode, October 11 a medieval episode, etc.). Hopefully this will be neither confusing nor annoying, but I think it is better than having the story of European philosophy grind to a halt, or deferring the Indian project for the foreseeable future.

If you access the podcast on a website you'll simply find them under a different drop-down menu. But (and this is the main thing to take away from the current announcement) if you follow it via an RSS feed you will need to SUBSCRIBE TO A NEW RSS FEED, since I think it would just be very confusing to mix the two stories in one feed. For the same reason the Indian episodes will have their own numbering (i.e. they will start with episode 01). Obviously this is not intended to suggest that Indian philosophy is somehow only a "spin off" or less a part of the history of philosophy, it's purely a way of keeping the episodes in a non-confusing order.

I will of course announce here and on a special announcement "episode" on the main feed when the second feed for Indian philosophy is ready, provide links, etc.

Two final points: the hope would be for these episodes on Indian philosophy to appear as a co-authored volume in the same series of books based on the podcast, with Oxford University Press. And, if this co-authoring idea goes well I might try to tackle Chinese philosophy and perhaps other areas of "world philosophy" in the future (and those episodes could be added to the new second feed). But you'll probably understand if for now, carrying on with medieval philosophy and starting a new series on Indian philosophy seems like enough to worry about.

Just comment here if you have any suggestions or questions! And as always, thanks for listening.