| Contents | 5 |
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| Articles | 7 |
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| J. O. Chimakonam: Conversational Philosophy as a New School of Thought in African Philosophy: A Conversation with Bruce Janz on the Concept of ›Philosophical Space‹ | 9 |
| 1 Introduction | 10 |
| 2 African Philosophy as a Systematic Study | 14 |
| 3 Inaugurating the Conversational School | 19 |
| 4 Canons of Conversational Philosophy | 26 |
| 5 Conclusion: A Conversation with Bruce Janz on the Concept of ›Philosophical Space‹ | 31 |
| R. Bhattacharya: From Proto-materialism to Materialism: The Indian Scenario | 41 |
| 1 Introduction | 41 |
| 2 Intellectual Turmoil and the Rise of Proto-Materialism | 45 |
| 3 Inventory of Sources for Studying Materialism in India | 48 |
| 4 Materialist Ontology | 50 |
| 5 Materialism in India Through the Ages | 51 |
| 6 New Meanings of astika and nastika | 52 |
| 7 Two Pre-Carvaka Materialist Schools | 54 |
| 8 Summing up | 58 |
| Appendix | 59 |
| A. Smirnov: Towards an Understanding of Islamic Ornament: Approaching Islamic Ornament through Ibn .Arabi’s Fu.u. al-.ikam’s Notions of the .ahir-Ba.in Interplay and the .ufi .ayra | 60 |
| 1 Introduction | 61 |
| 2 The .ahir-ba.in Relationship | 61 |
| 3 Applying .ahir-ba.in paradigm to Islamic ornament: A Test Case | 73 |
| 4 Extending the .ahir-ba.in Interpretation Model Beyond the Test Case | 79 |
| Addendum | 82 |
| S. Brentjes: Relationships Between Early Modern Christian and Islamicate Societies in Eurasia and North Africa as Reflected in the History of Science and Medicine | 85 |
| 1 Introduction | 86 |
| 2 Problems of Approach and Interpretation | 87 |
| 3 Two Historical Cases | 95 |
| 3.1 Pietro della Valle | 96 |
| 3.2 García da Orta’s Coloquios dos simples, e drogas he cousas mediçinais da India, Goa, 1563 | 102 |
| 4 Final Remarks | 117 |
| Symposium: How Are Histories of Non-Western Philosophies Relevant to Intercultural Philosophizing? | 123 |
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| F.-M. Wimmer: How Are Histories of Non-Western Philosophies Relevant to Intercultural Philosophizing? | 125 |
| R. Bernasconi: The Kantian Canon: Response to Wimmer | 133 |
| P. Hountondji: Franz Wimmer’s Statement: A Comment | 139 |
| 1 Eurocentrism | 139 |
| 2 Choosing One’s Audience | 141 |
| 3 Historicizing Non-Western Philosophies | 142 |
| T. Norton-Smith: A Shawnee Reflection on Franz Wimmer’s »How Are Histories of Non-Western Philosophies Relevant to Intercultural Philosophizing?« | 145 |
| Reply | 151 |
| 1 The Particularity of Philosophy’s Historiography | 151 |
| 2 The Need for Polylogues | 156 |
| References | 162 |
| Philosophical Journeys | 169 |
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| H. Verran: Comparative Philosophy and I | 171 |
| R. Ohashi: Philosophy as Auto-Bio-Graphy: The Example of the Kyoto School | 189 |
| 1 Outline of the Kyoto School | 189 |
| 2 The ›Auto‹ | 191 |
| 3 The ›Bios‹ | 194 |
| 4 The Graphe | 198 |
| Survey Articles | 203 |
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| L. Kalmanson: Have We Got a Method for You! | 205 |
| 1 Feminist Comparative Philosophy | 206 |
| 2 Afrocentricity as a Methodology | 208 |
| 3 Non-Combative Philosophical Methods | 210 |
| H. Shadi: An Epistemological Turn in Contemporary Islamic Reform Discourse: On Abdolkarim Soroush’s Epistemology | 215 |
| 1 Introduction | 215 |
| 2 A Brief Intellectual Biography of Soroush | 217 |
| 3 Epistemological Nature of Soroush’s Thought | 219 |
| 4 Main Features of Soroush’s Epistemology | 220 |
| 4.1 Rationalism, Neo-Mu’tazilism | 221 |
| 4.2 Post-positivism: From Scientific Post-Positivism to Religious Post-Positivism | 222 |
| 4.3 Hermeneutics | 224 |
| 4.4 Historicism | 226 |
| 4.5 Critical-Historical Approach | 230 |
| 4.6 Dialogical and Translational: Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism | 231 |
| 5 Epistemological Turn in Contemporary Islamic Reform Discourse | 236 |
| 6 Conclusion | 238 |
| Conference Report | 241 |
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| Asixoxe-Let’s Talk!, 1.stand 2.nd May 2015, SOAS, University of London, UK | 243 |
| Institutional Programs on Comparative Philosophy | 247 |
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| The Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (CEACOP), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (SAR) | 249 |
| Non-Western Philosophy, University of Reading, Reading, UK | 250 |
| The Center for Comparative Philosophy (CCP), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA | 251 |
| Department of Philosophy, San Jose State University, California, USA | 252 |
| Notes on Contributors | 254 |
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