Curriculum Vitae Dr. Ernst Prets Nationality: Present Positions: Austrian Project director, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens), Austrian Academy of Sciences Apostelgasse 23 A-1030 Vienna tel: +43-1-51581-6419 mobile : +43-(0)-699 12 627170 fax: +43-1-51581-6427 prets@oeaw.ac.at www.oeaw.ac.at/ias Academic positions and functions: Lecturer, Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna 2008-2011 Project director, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (ICIHA), Austrian Academy of Sciences; project: Fragments of early Nyāya 2006-2008 Project director, ICIHA, Austrian Academy of Sciences; project: Rules of Debate and Grounds for Defeat in Ancient India 2006, 2003, 2000, 1998 Deputy Director, ICIHA, Austrian Academy of Sciences 2004-2005 Research fellow, ICIHA, Austrian Academy of Sciences; project: Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India 2001-2004 Research fellow, ICIHA, Austrian Academy of Sciences; project: Debate in the Context of the History of Indian Medicine 1995- Lecturer, Institute for Indology (from 2001: Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies), University of Vienna 1991-2001 Research fellow, ICIHA, Austrian Academy of Sciences; project: Dictionary of Indian Epistemology, Logic and Methodology 1987-91 Deputy chair of the employees committee of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1983-91 Research fellow, Commission for the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences; project: Dictionary of Indian Epistemology, Logic and Methodology 1
1981 Research Assistant, Commission for the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences 1978-80 Academic Assistant, Institute for Indology, University of Vienna Additional academic activities (short term): 2008 Research travel, Ahmedabad, Palithana, Kolkata, Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima on behalf of the presentation and acquisition of collaborators for the internet based database of the fragments of Nyāya 2006- Chinese-English translation project Upāyahŗdaya (fang-pien hsinlun), together with Prof. Shoryu Katsura, Kyoto, and Prof. Brendan Gillon, Montreal 2005 Research travel, New Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat (Vrindavan, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Nagaur, Ahmedabad, Koba, Jamnagar) for the acquisition of copies of manuscripts of the Carakasaṃhitā 2003 Organization of the international workshop Towards the Critical Edition of Classical Āyurvedic Texts, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (together with Prof. Karin Preisendanz) 2002 Guest Lecturer (Seminar: Early Indian Dialectical Traditions and the Terminology of Debate in the Carakasaņhitā) at the Department of Oriental Philosophy, Tokyo University (one month) 2001 Research travel, Northern India (Bikaner, Alwar, Chandigarh, Chittaurgarh, Jammu, Jodhpur, Kolkata, Kota, New Delhi, Udaipur, Varanasi) for the acquisition of copies of manuscripts of the Carakasaņhitā 1997 Research on manuscripts of the Carakasaṃhitā at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London 1997 Research on logical and methodological terminology at the Sanskrit Dictionary Project, Deccan College, Pune, India 1996-2000 Collaborator of the Bauddha-Nyāyakośa-Project, Hiroshima, Japan 1994 Scholarship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for scientific cooperation in the field of Brahmanic and Buddhist philosophy and lectures at the Universities of Hiroshima, Kyoto and Tokyo 1994 Research in Jammu and Kashmir, India (location of Sanskrit manuscripts in Shrinagar) 2
1985- Lectures in the field of Indian philosophy, epistemology, logic, Indian medicine, manuscriptology, etc. at international congresses and symposia in Austria, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Finland, France, India, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Thailand Oral presentations (last 10 years): 2010 Argument, Argumentation, and Sentence in Early Indian Philosophy. Conference: Predication and the Unity of the Proposition. University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria (invited) 2009 A Database and Nyāya Fragments. Tokyo University, Department on Oriental 2009 Naiyāyikas and Cārvākas. Tsukuba University, Department of 2009 Nyāya Fragments, Periodization of Indian Philosophy, and Kashmir Shaivism. Hiroshima University, Department of Indian 2009 Fragments of the Nyāya School of Philosophy. International Conference: World View and Thoery in Indian Philosophy (Congreso International Teoría e ideología en las filosofías de la India ), Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain (invited) 2008 Fragments of the Nyāya School of Philosophy. Tokyo University, Department on Oriental 2008 Lost Naiyāyikas and their Significance for the History of Indian Philosophy. Hiroshima University, Department of Indian 2008 A Database for the History of Nyāya Philosophy. Tokyo University, Department on Oriental 2008 Transmission, Reception, and Highly Esteemed Scholars. Visva Bharati Study Circle, Santiniketan, West Bengal, Indien (invited) 2008 More than Three Means of Cognition in the Classical Āyurvedic Tradition. International Grand Centennial Convention on Ayurveda 2008, Arya Vaidya Pharmacy, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India (invited) 2007 The Means of Cognition in the Early Indian Medical Tradition, Shri Shankaracarya University, Kalady, Kerala, India (invited) 2006 On the Transmission of Classical Sanskrit Texts, Tokyo University, Department on Oriental 3
2006 The Importance of the Carakasaņhitā for the History of Indian Philosophy. Hiroshima University, Department of Indian 2006 Zum Ursprung des Āyurveda: die Mythologien der großen Drei. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (invited) 2005 Zum mythologischen Ursprung und der heutigen Textgestalt der Carakasaṃhitā. 2. Kasseler Āyurveda-Konferenz, Habichtswaldklinik, Kassel, Germany (invited) 2004 Discussion and Debate in Early Indian Medicine. Text and Translation Series of The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London (invited) 2004 On the Editions of the Carakasaṃhitā. Workshop: Classical Indian Medicine: Text and Meaning, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London (invited) 2004 Caraka zwischen Philosophie und Medizin. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (invited) 2003 The Carakasaṃhitā: A preliminary review of manuscripts and editions. Workshop Towards the Critical Edition of Classical Āyurvedic Texts, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (invited) 2003 Editions, Manuscripts and Commentaries: On the Proof and Counterproof Passage of the Carakasaṃhitā. 12 th World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki, Finland (invited) 2002 Theories of Debate, Indian Medical Tradition and Early Indian Logic. Tokyo University, Department on Oriental Philosophy, Japan (invited) 2002 On the Manuscripts and the Editions of the Carakasaṃhitā. Kyoto University, Department of Oriental Philology, Division of Indian 2002 The Manuscripts of the Carakasaṃhitā and the Tradition of Discussion. (Seminar), Waseda University, Department of Literature and Asian Philosophy Division, Tokyo, Japan (invited) 2002 The Carakasaṃhitā - An Examination of Selected Editions and Manuscripts. 5 th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine. Halle, Germany (submitted) 2002 Implications, Derivations and Consequences, prasaṅga in the Early Nyāya Tradition. XIII th Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (invited) 2001 Debate in the Context of the History of Indian Medicine. World Sanskrit Conference, New Delhi, India (invited) 4
2001 Parley, Reason and Rejoinder. International Seminar Argument and Reason in Indian Logic, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland (invited) 2001 Dialectical Passages in the Carakasaṃhitā: Towards a Critical Edition. Howrah Sanskrit Sahitya Samaj, Howrah, West Bengal, India (invited) 2000 Proof and Counterproof in Early Indian Dialectic and Logic. XXXV th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies, Montréal, Canada (submitted) 2000 Fire is cold because it is produced. Theories of Communication in Early India. Department of Religious Studies and South Asian Committee of Yale University, New Haven, CT. USA (invited) Courses taught (last 10 years): 2010-2011 Introduction to Classical Sanskrit 2008-2009 Introduction to Classical Sanskrit 2003-2008 Introduction to the Nominal Style of Scientific Sanskrit 2002 Introduction to Āyurveda - from Kashmir to Bengal 2002 Translation Training of Āyurvedic Texts 2002 The Early Indian Dialectical Traditions and the Terminology of Debate in the Carakasaṃhitā. Tokyo University, Department of Oriental Philosophy (Seminar, 18 hours, February 4-22) 2001 Introduction to the Terminology of Indian Epistemology and Logic (1 st millennium) 2001 Translation Training of Epistemological Texts 2000 Introduction to the Terminology of Indian Epistemology and Logic (Dialectic and Discussion in the Carakasaṃhitā and the Nyāyasūtra) 2000 Translation Training of Sūtra Texts Fellowships and Grants: 2008-2011 Research grant by the Austrian Science Fund 2006-2008 Research grant by the Austrian Science Fund 2003 Travel grant by the Wellcome Trust, London, GB 2001 Travel grant by the Government of India 5
1997 Travel grant by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science 1997 Research and travel grant by the Wellcome Trust, London, GB 1994 Fellowship by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science 1994 Travel Grant by the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs 1992-2003 Several travel grants by the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1985-1991 Several travel grants by the Association of the Friends of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1983-2011 Internationally evaluated research grants by the Austrian Science Fund 6
Publications Dr. Ernst Prets A) Articles 2010 On the Proof Passage of the Carakasaṃhitā: Editions, Manuscripts and Commentaries, in: Brendan S. Gillon (ed.), Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, Vol. 10.2: Logic in Earliest Classical India, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi 2010 pp. 67-85. 2007 Implications, Derivations and Consequences, prasaṅga in the early Nyāya tradition, in: B. Kellner, H. Krasser, H. Lasic, M.T. Much. H. Tauscher (eds.), Pramāṇakīrtiḥ. Papers dedicated to Ernst Steinkellner on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Part 2. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 70.2, Wien: Arbeitskreis für Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien 2007, 669 681. 2005 Theories of Debate in the Context of Indian Medical History: Towards a Critical Edition of the Carakasaṃhitā, in: Ram Karan Sharma (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Indian Wisdom (Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri Festschrift). Delhi: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan 2005. 2004 Example and Exemplification in Early Nyāya and Vaiśeşika, in: Shoryu Katsura and Ernst Steinkellner (eds.), On the Role of the Example (dŗşţānta) in Classical Indian Logic. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 58, Wien: Arbeitskreis für Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien 2004. 2003 Parley, Reason and Rejoinder, in: Journal of Indian Philosophy 31 (2003), 271-283. 2001 Futile and False Rejoinders, Sophistical Arguments and Early Indian Logic, in: Journal of Indian Philosophy 29 (2001), 545-558. 2000 Theories of Debate, Proof and Counter-Proof in the Early Indian Dialectical Tradition, in: On the Understanding of Other Culturesť Proceedings of the International Conference on Sanskrit and Related Studies to Commemorate the Centenary of the Birth of Stanislaw Schayer (1899-1941). Warsaw University, Poland, October 7-10, 1999. Ed. by Piotr Balcerowicz & Marek Mejor. Warsaw [= Studia Indologiczne 7 (2000)], 369-382. 7
1999 Dharmakīrtiťs Refutation of kevalānvayin and kevalavyatirekin Reasons in the Light of the Naiyāyikasť View, in: Dharmakīrtiťs Thought and Its Impact on Indian and Tibetan Philosophy. Proceedings of the Third International Dharmakīrti Conference. Hiroshima, November 4-6, 1997. Ed. by Shoryu Katsura. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., Denkschriften 281. Band = Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 32). Wien 1999, 333-340. 1998 Ein historisches Wörterbuch der indischen Logik und Erkenntnistheorie, in: Lexicography in Indian and Buddhist Cultural Field. Proceedings of the Conference at the University of Strasbourg, 25 to 27 April 1996. Ed. by Boris Oguibenin. (Studia Tibetica, Band IV). München 1998, 95-103. 1994 The Structure of sādhana in the Abhidharmasamuccaya, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 38 (1994), 337-350. 1992 On the Development of the Concept of parārthānumāna, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 36 (1992), 195-202. 1989 Die Erkenntnis des logischen Nexus bei Bhāsarvajña, in: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. Supplementa VII. XXIII. Deutscher Orientalistentag vom 16. bis 20. September 1985 in Würzburg. Ausgewählte Vorträge herausgegeben von Einar von Schuller. Stuttgart 1989, 402-410. 1987 Notes on the anadhyavasitahetvābhāsa, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 31 (1987), 131-140. B) Books 2006 Together with Gerhard Oberhammer and Joachim Prandstetter: Terminologie der frühen philosophischen Scholastik in Indien. Ein Begriffswörterbuch zur altindischen Dialektik, Erkenntnislehre und Methodologie. Herausgegeben von Gerhard Oberhammer. Band 3: Pra- H. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., Denkschriften 343. Band = Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 49). Wien 2006. 1996 Together with Gerhard Oberhammer and Joachim Prandstetter: Terminologie der frühen philosophischen Scholastik in Indien. Ein Begriffswörterbuch zur altindischen Dialektik, Erkenntnislehre und Methodologie. Herausgegeben von Gerhard Oberhammer. Band 2: U-Pū. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., Denkschriften 248. Band = Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 17). Wien 1996. 8
1991 In cooperation with Gerhard Oberhammer and Joachim Prandstetter: Terminologie der frühen philosophischen Scholastik in Indien. Ein Begriffswörterbuch zur altindischen Dialektik, Erkenntnislehre und Methodologie. Band 1: A-I. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., Denkschriften, 223. Band = Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 9). Wien 1991. C) Dissertation / Ph.D. Thesis 1992 Der Beweis bei Bhāsarvajña. Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades an der Geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien. Wien 1992 (available in the Austrian National Library and the Library of the University of Vienna). 9