Office: WAG 301
Office Hours: M 2:00-2:30; W 2:00-4:00 and by appt.
Phone: 471-5080
phillips@mail.utexas.edu
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Education: BA, PhD Harvard

Research interests:
He is a Sanskritist and specialist in classical Indian thought. ; He is author of over forty articles and author or co-author of four books: Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman (Brill, 1986), Classical Indian Metaphysics: Refutations of Realism and the Emergence of "New Logic" (Open Court, 1995, Indian edition, Motilal Banarsidass, 1998), Gangesa on the Upadhi, the "Inferential Undercutting Condition," Introduction, Translation, and Explanation (with N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2002), and Epistemology of Perception: Gangesa's Tattvacintamani, Vol. I, pratyaksa-khanda, introduction, translation, and commentary (with N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya, forthcoming, Motilal Banarsidass). He is currently working on a four-volume translation of and commentary on the most important work of late classical Indian philosophy, Gangesa's Tattvacintamani (Jewel of Reflection on the Truth of Epistemology), which founded the 'New Logic' school in the fourteenth century. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Courses taught:
Indian philosophy, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, Wittgenstein

Field(s) of Study: Indian Philosophy, Metaphysics