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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.
Contents
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
