Indian Philosophical Congress

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The Indian Philosophical Congress was established by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan in 1925. Its Silver Jubilee was at Calcutta University and the Golden Jubilee at Delhi University. In 1985, the Diamond Jubilee session was inaugurated in Hyderabad by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. In 2000, the Platinum Jubilee session was held in New Delhi with President K. R. Narayanan presiding as Patron.

Each year, the Congress is held in a different city in India, as decided by the Executive Committee at the time of the previous Congress. Philosophers, thinkers, research scholars, students & even lay people, from India & abroad participate in the Congress. The Congress runs over a period of four days, with the following regular events:

1. Endowment Lectures delivered the Eminent Thinkers. As of now, these are:

   1. Pratap Seth Vedanta Lecture
   2. Buddha Jayanti Lecture
   3. Jaina Lecture
   4. Swami Narayana Theistic Vedanta Lecture
   5. Saiva Siddhanta Lecture
   6. Khwaja M A Hay Lecture on Humanism
   7. Gujarat Vidyapeeth Lecture on Gandhian Philosophy & Peace
   8. Vallabha Vedanta Lecture

2. Two Symposia. For the 85th IPC, these will be:

   1. Question of Identity & Clash of Civilization
   2. Aesthetic Communication

3. Sectional Meetings, in which participants whose abstracts were accepted for the Congress present their papers. Papers are presented under the following sections:

   1. History of Philosophy
   2. Logic & Scientific Method
   3. Metaphysics & Epistemology
   4. Ethics & Social Philosophy
   5. Religion

You can get all the details this year's Congress (and some past ones) on this web-site.

We look forward to meeting you at the IPC!