Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

One of the first philosophers to relate Indian philosophical thought to Western analytic philosophy, Jaysankar Lal Shaw has been reflecting on analytic themes from Indian philosophy for over 40 years. This collection of his most important writings, introduces his work and presents new ways of using Indian classical thought to approach and understand Western philosophy.By expanding, reinterpreting and reclassifying concepts and views of Indian philosophers, Shaw applies them to the main issues and theories discussed in contemporary philosophy of language and epistemology. Carefully constructed, this volume of his collected writings, shows the parallels Shaw draws between core topics in both traditions, such as proper names, definite descriptions, meaning of a sentence, knowledge, doubt, inference and testimony. It captures how Shaw uses the techniques and concepts of Indian philosophers, especially the followers of the Navya-Nyaya, to address global problems like false belief, higher order knowledge and extraordinary perception. Exploring timeless ideas from Indian thought alongside major issues in contemporary philosophy, Shaw reveals how the two traditions can interact and throw light on each other, providing better solutions to philosophical problems. He has also reflected on modern issues such as freedom, morality and harmony from the classical Indian thought.Featuring a glossary and updates to his writings,The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy also includes new work by Shaw on the relationship between Indian and analytic philosophy today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-22
Mått:158 x 240 x 34 mm
Vikt:940 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury 3PL
Antal sidor:528
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474245050

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Mer om författaren

Jaysankar Lal Shaw is Associate Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has taught at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, at the University of Alabama, USA, and the University of Hawaii, USA. Together with B.K. Matilal, he co-edited Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective (1985).

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Shaw's work at the borders of Anglo-Analytic and Indian-Analytic philosophy is extremely engaging and it truly demonstrates how Indian philosophy can be a part of the contemporary world philosophy and comparative philosophy milieu … [this book] provides a bridge between contemporary research in analytic philosophy and classical Indian philosophy across a number of core areas. One can be assured that studying his work will lead to gaining insights and making connections between traditions of philosophy. Thus, this is an important publication for philosophers of whatever orientation.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: Metaphysics 1. Causality2. Buddhism on Suffering and Nirva?a3. The Referent of ‘I’: An Indian Perspective4. The Nature of Nyaya RealismPART II: Epistemology5. The Nyaya on Sources of Knowledge – Perception, Inference, Analogy, and Testimony: Some Contemporary Problems and their Solutions from the Nyaya Perspective6. Knowledge, Belief and Doubt: Some Contemporary Problems and their Solutions from the Nyaya Perspective7. A Note on Cognition of Cognition in Indian Philosophy8. Subject and Predicate9. Navya-Nyaya on Subject-Predicate and Related PairsPART III: Logic and Mathematics10. Austin on Falsity and Negation11. Empty Terms: The Nyaya and the Buddhists12. Negation and the Buddhist Theory of Meaning13. The Nyaya on Double Negation14. Universal Sentences; Russell, Wittgenstein, Prior, and the Nyaya 15. Singular Existential Sentences: Contemporary Philosophy and the Nyaya16. The Nyaya on Number17. The Concept of Relevance (Sa?gati) in Ga?gesaPART IV: Philosophy of Language18. Proper Names: Contemporary Philosophy and the Nyaya19. Demonstrative Pronouns 20. Descriptions: Some Contemporary Problems and their Solutions from the Nyaya Perspective21. Conditions for Understanding the Meaning of a Sentence: the Nyaya and the Advaita Vedanta22. Levels of Meaning23. ‘Saturated’ and ‘Unsaturated’: Frege and the Nyaya24. Some Reflections on KripkePART V: Morals and Values25. Dharma and the Law of Karma in Indian Culture26. The Nature of Human Beings: East and West27. Freedom: East and West28. Swami Vivekananda and Bertrand Russell on Conception and Development of Human Beings29. Concepts of Harmony in Indian PhilosophyBibliography Index