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{{Short description|American writer, academic and Indologist (1927–2022)}}
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| birth_place = [[Oakland, California]], U.S.
| death_date = January 11, 2022 (aged 94)
| death_place = [[Lake Forest Park, Washington]]
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]] (2011)
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'''Karl Harrington Potter''' (August 19, 1927 – January 11, 2022<ref>{{Cite web |title=Karl Harrington Potter (19 August 1927 – 11 January 2022) {{!}} H-Asia {{!}} H-Net |url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/9707694/karl-harrington-potter-19-august-1927-11-january-2022 |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=networks.h-net.org}}</ref>) was an American-born writer, academic, and [[Indologist]],<ref name="Gulf News">{{cite web | url=http://m.gulfnews.com/news/world/india/brajesh-mishra-azim-premji-in-list-of-128-padma-winners-1.752108 | title=Gulf News | publisher=Gulf News | date=January 26, 2011 | access-date=November 28, 2014}}</ref> from the [[University of Washington]].<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/president-presents-first-set-of-padma-awards/article1568890.ece | title=The Hindu | date=March 26, 2011 | access-date=November 28, 2014| last1=Sunderarajan | first1=P. }}</ref> He studied at the [[University of California]],<ref name="Register - University of California, Volume 2">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQA5AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Karl+Harrington+Potter%22&pg=RA2-PA97 | title=Register - University of California, Volume 2 | publisher=University of California Press | author=University of California | year=1949}}</ref> as well as [[Harvard University]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://phil.washington.edu/people/karl-h-potter|title=Karl H. Potter | Department of Philosophy | University of Washington}}</ref> and is known for his writings on [[Indian philosophy]].

Potter has served as a professor, of the department of Philosophy and South Asian Studies at the University of Washington.<ref>Douglas Daye (1979), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1398564 Review: Indian Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Tradition of Nyāya-Vaiśesika up to Gaṅgeśa by Karl H. Potter], Philosophy East and West, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Apr. 1979), pp. 245–247</ref> He has been called an eminent scholar by his peers.<ref>[[Mikel Burley]] (2015), Rebirth and the Stream of Life: A Philosophical Study of Reincarnation, Karma and Ethics, Bloomsbury Academic, {{ISBN|978-1628922264}}, p. 136.</ref>

He is credited with a number of books on the topic.<ref name="Profile on WorldCat">{{cite book | title=Profile on WorldCat | publisher=WorldCat | date=2014 |oclc = 91697}}</ref><ref name="The Philosophy of the Grammarians">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KfQknQEACAAJ | title=The Philosophy of the Grammarians | publisher=Motilal Banarsidass | author=Harold G. Coward, Karl Harrington Potter | year=2008 | pages=609 | isbn=9788120803077}}</ref><ref name="Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tq_OoAEACAAJ | title=Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies | publisher=Motilal Banarsidass | author=Karl Harrington Potter | year=2009 | pages=705}}</ref><ref name="Presuppositions of India's Philosophies">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHvGnQEACAAJ | title=Presuppositions of India's Philosophies | publisher=Prentice Hall of India Pvt Limited | author=Karl Harrington Potter | year=1965 | pages=276}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honored Potter in 2011 with the fourth highest civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2014 |access-date=November 11, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=October 15, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Calif. Scientist Among Expats Named for Padma Shri">{{cite journal | url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/58714769/calif-scientist-among-expats-named-padma-shri | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206005317/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/58714769/calif-scientist-among-expats-named-padma-shri | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 6, 2014 | title=Calif. Scientist Among Expats Named for Padma Shri | author=Newspaper | journal=Newspaper |date=February 2011 | volume=36 | issue=11 | pages=34}}</ref> Potter died in January 2022, at the age of 94.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://phil.washington.edu/news/2022/01/21/remembering-emeritus-professor-karl-potter|title=Remembering Emeritus Professor Karl Potter|website=phil.washington.edu}}</ref>

==Selected works==
; Monographs
* {{cite book | author=Harold G. Coward, Karl H. Potter | title=The Philosophy of the Grammarians | place=Delhi | publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] | year=2008 | isbn=9788120803077}}
* {{cite book | author=Karl H. Potter | title=Presuppositions of India's Philosophies | publisher=Prentice Hall of India | year=1965}}

; Bibliography
* ''BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHIES'' - published [https://web.archive.org/web/20000930083221/http://faculty.washington.edu/kpotter/old_index.html online] after three printed editions as volume I of the ''Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies'' (see below): 1st edition 1970; 2nd revised 1983; 3rd revised 1995), updated at least twice a year since 1996, new interface of the website since March 2000, during the last years a joint effort with a group of assistants. Last edition 15.04.2020 [https://web.archive.org/web/20211113104439/http://faculty.washington.edu/kpotter/ckeyt/home.htm Internet Archive copy].

; General editor
* {{cite encyclopedia |editor-surname=Potter |editor-given=Karl H. |title=Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies |place=Delhi |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] |year=1970–2019 |volume=1–25}}, now (2023) distributed by Exotic India Art. See the full list of volumes [https://web.archive.org/web/20210518010515/https://faculty.washington.edu/kpotter/encyclo.html at Potter's website, up till August 2019], and [https://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/encyclopedia-of-indian-philosophies-set-of-26-books-nal124/ at the publisher's website].

==See also==
* [[Indian philosophy]]
* [[Indology]]
{{portal|India}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20210508162741/https://faculty.washington.edu/kpotter/ckeyt/home.htm ''Bibliography on Indian Philosophies''] - version without diacritical marks, complete, dated 15.04.2020, probably the last one uploaded by K.Potter to Internet (archived by the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive on 08.05.2021, accessed 03.04.2023). Version with full diacritical marks, linked therefrom, is unfortunately incomplete - some sections are as old as of 2017.
* {{cite book | title=Profile on WorldCat | publisher=WorldCat | date=2014 |oclc = 91697}}

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