Cross-Cultural Conversation (ePub)

Anindita N. Balslev is an independent philosopher based in India and Denmark. Her research and teaching experience span India, France, the US and Denmark. She is a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion, and is on the board of the journals World Affairs and Zygon. She earlier served on the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS/DOSER). She has been awarded a scholarship by the government of France, two fellowships from Denmark and recently the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship in New Delhi. She received her postgraduate degree from Calcutta University and PhD from the University of Paris.

Apart from many papers in professional journals, she is the author of A Study of Time in Indian Philosophy (1983; 2019), Cultural Otherness: Correspondence with Richard Rorty (2000), The Enigma of I-Consciousness (2013) and Reflections on Indian Thought: Fourteen Essays: On Indian Philosophical Themes (2019). She has organized several important CCC international conferences and is the editor of Cross-Cultural Conversation: Initiation (1996), Toward Greater Human Solidarity (2005), On India: Self Image and Counter Image (2013) and On World Religions: Diversity, Not Dissension (2014), and the co-editor of Religion and Time (1993) and Compassion in the Religions of the World (2009).