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

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

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528 Seiten
2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-4505-0 (ISBN)
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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.

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).

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: Metaphysics

1. Causality

2. Buddhism on Suffering and Nirva?a

3. The Referent of ‘I’: An Indian Perspective

4. The Nature of Nyaya Realism

PART II: Epistemology

5. The Nyaya on Sources of Knowledge – Perception, Inference, Analogy, and Testimony: Some Contemporary Problems and their Solutions from the Nyaya Perspective

6. Knowledge, Belief and Doubt: Some Contemporary Problems and their Solutions from the Nyaya Perspective

7. A Note on Cognition of Cognition in Indian Philosophy

8. Subject and Predicate

9. Navya-Nyaya on Subject-Predicate and Related Pairs

PART III: Logic and Mathematics

10. Austin on Falsity and Negation

11. Empty Terms: The Nyaya and the Buddhists

12. Negation and the Buddhist Theory of Meaning

13. The Nyaya on Double Negation

14. Universal Sentences; Russell, Wittgenstein, Prior, and the Nyaya

15. Singular Existential Sentences: Contemporary Philosophy and the Nyaya

16. The Nyaya on Number

17. The Concept of Relevance (Sa?gati) in Ga?gesa

PART IV: Philosophy of Language

18. Proper Names: Contemporary Philosophy and the Nyaya

19. Demonstrative Pronouns

20. Descriptions: Some Contemporary Problems and their Solutions from the Nyaya Perspective

21. Conditions for Understanding the Meaning of a Sentence: the Nyaya and the Advaita Vedanta

22. Levels of Meaning

23. ‘Saturated’ and ‘Unsaturated’: Frege and the Nyaya

24. Some Reflections on Kripke

PART V: Morals and Values

25. Dharma and the Law of Karma in Indian Culture

26. The Nature of Human Beings: East and West

27. Freedom: East and West

28. Swami Vivekananda and Bertrand Russell on Conception and Development of Human Beings

29. Concepts of Harmony in Indian Philosophy

Bibliography

Index

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 968 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10 1-4742-4505-6 / 1474245056
ISBN-13 978-1-4742-4505-0 / 9781474245050
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