Purushottama Bilimoria


Purushottama Bilimoria is an Australian-American philosopher and former Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University. He is presently teaching faculty at University of San Francisco, California.
He studied at the University of Auckland and the University of Otago, in New Zealand, and received his PhD in 1983 from La Trobe University in Australia. Currently, he is appointed Head of Purushottama Research Center for Philosophy and Culture of India, and Scholar at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia. He is also Principal Fellow with the School of Philosophical and Historical Studies and senior research fellow with the Australia India Institute, both in the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Among his recent academic positions are: Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Fellow and Visiting Faculty at Ashoka University in Delhi, India ; permanent senior fellow with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford; distinguished teaching and senior research fellow in Indian philosophy and formerly core doctoral faculty at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; formerly Chancellor's Scholar, lecturer and visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley; visiting scholar with the Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California at Berkeley; and honorary professor at the Deakin University. Visiting Scholar Faculty of Philosophy, Ljubljana University, and Koç University .
A co-founder of the Australian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy., he is also co-editor-in-chief of both [Sophia (journal)|Sophia (journal)|Sophia] and Journal of Dharma Studies, and Editor of Routledge History of Indian Philosophy. He is also founder and the co-editor-in-chief of the Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Culture.

Selected works

Companion to Indian Ethics Women Justice Bioethics and Ecology, Routledge 2024.Mind, Body and Self, Sophia Series, Springer, 2024.Sustainability Interdisciplinary and Interreligious Approaches Contemplative Studies and Hinduism
  • Contemplative Studies and Jainism Routledge History of Indian Philosophy Sabda Pramana: Word and Knowledge/Testimony in Indian Philosophy Why is there Nothing Rather than Something? The Indian Diaspora The Hindus and Sikhs in Australia The Self & its Other in Hindu Thought Contemporary Philosophy and J.L. Shaw Essays in Indian Philosophy: Traditional and Modern The Other Revolution: NGO and Feminist Perspectives from South and East Asia .Emotions in Indian-Thought System
  • "Postcolonial Philosophy of Philosophy"
  • "J L Shaw and Comparative Philosophy"
  • "Indian Ethics vol I Classical and Contemporary Changes
  • "Indian Ethics vol II Gender Justice and Ecology
  • "Preface to Empathy Theory and Practice in Psychotheraphy by Renuka Sharma"
  • "Globalization, Transnationalism, Gender and Ecological Engagement"
  • 100+ articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, proceedings.