Parimal G. Patil
Assistant Professor of the Study of Religion and of Sanskrit and Indian Studies

• BA University of Pennsylvania

• MA Harvard University

• PhD University of Chicago
  

Parimal G. Patil is a philosopher and intellectual historian of religion
who is interested in South Asian intellectual practices and their
relevance to broader issues in The Study of Religion, Philosophy, and Area
Studies. He is particularly interested in Indian Buddhism, its
intellectual history in Southern Asia, and Buddhist, Hindu, and Jaina
debates in aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of
language. His current work includes a book length project on one such
debate during the "final phase" of Buddhism in India, and articles on
Buddhist narrative literature, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
More recently, he has also become interested in classical South Asian
literature and literary theory, and its relevance to historiography and
religious ethics. Other research and teaching interests include,
contemporary method and theory in the study of religion; Euro-American
philosophy of religion; Sanskrit language, literature, and poetics; Hindu
studies; and constructive work in the study of Hinduism, especially ethics
and theology.