Classical Indian Philosophy of Mind
Classical Indian Philosophy of Mind

Author: Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0791498670

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This book examines psycho-physical dualism as developed by the Nyāya school of Indian philosophy. Dualism is important to many world religions which promote personal immortality and to morality which promotes free will. For the Nyāya, the self is a permanent, immaterial substance to which non-physical internal states like cognition belong. This view is challenged by other Indian schools, especially the Buddhist and Cārvāka schools. Chakrabarti brings out the connections between the Indian and the Western debates over the mind-body problem and shows that the Nyāya position is well developed, well articulated, and defensible. He shows that Nyāya dualism differs from Cartesian dualism and is not vulnerable to some traditional objections against the latter. A brief discussion of the Sāṃkhya and the Advaita theories of the self and the critique of these views from the Nyāya standpoint are included, as well as a discussion of a classical Nyāya causal argument for the existence of God. The appendix contains an annotated translation of selected portions of Udayana's masterpiece, Ātmatattvaviveka (Discerning the Nature of the Self.)

Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 7
Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 7

Author: Tamar Szabó Gendler

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-11-24

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 019269555X

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Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a periodical publication which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe, and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: - traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, the nature of the a priori, etc; - new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism; - foundational questions in decision-theory; - confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology; - topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology; - topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions; - work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony and the ethics of belief. Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.

Philosophy in Classical India
Philosophy in Classical India

Author: Jonardon Ganeri

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1134551630

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This original work focuses on the rational principles of Indian philosophical theory, rather than the mysticism more usually associated with it. Ganeri explores the philosophical projects of a number of major Indian philosophers and looks into the methods of rational inquiry deployed within these projects. In so doing, he illuminates a network of mutual reference, criticism, influence and response, in which reason is used to call itself into question. This fresh perspective on classical Indian thought unravels new philosophical paradigms, and points towards new applications for the concept of reason.

Steps Toward a Model of Linguistic Performance
Steps Toward a Model of Linguistic Performance

Author: R. M. Schwarcz

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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The report discusses the task of formulating a model of linguistic performance and proposes an approach toward this goal that is oriented toward an embodiment of the model as a digital computer program. The methodology of current linguistic theory is criticized for several of its features that render it inapplicable to a realistic model of performance, and remedies for these deficiencies are proposed. The syntactic and conceptual data structures, inference rules, generation and understanding mechanisms, and learning mechanisms proposed for the model are all described. The learning process is formulated as a series of five stages, and the roles of nonlinguistic feedback and inductive generalization relative to these stages are described. Finally, the implications of a successful performance model for linguistic theory, linguistic applications of computers, and psychological theory are discussed. (Author).

Knowing from Words
Knowing from Words

Author: Bimal K. Matilal

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 9401720185

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Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the confluence of these two branches of philosophy, namely: Can we know facts from reliable reports? Besides Hume's subversive discussion of miracles and the literature thereon, testimony has been bypassed by most Western philosophers; whereas in classical Indian (Pramana) theories of evidence and knowledge philosophical debates have raged for centuries about the status of word-generated knowledge. `Is the response "I was told by an expert on the subject" as respectable as "I saw" or "I inferred" in answer to "How do you know?"' is a question answered in diverse and subtle ways by Buddhists, Vaisesikas and Naiyayikas. For the first time this book makes available the riches of those debates, translating from Sanskrit some contemporary Indian Pandits' reactions to Western analytic accounts of meaning and knowledge. For advanced undergraduates in philosophy, for researchers - in Australia, Asia, Europe or America - on epistemology, theory of meaning, Indian or comparative philosophy, as well as for specialists interested in this relatively fresh topic of knowledge transmission and epistemic dependence this book will be a feast. After its publication analytic philosophy and Indian philosophy will have no excuse for shunning each other.

The Variegated Plumage
The Variegated Plumage

Author: Narendranath B. Patil

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9788120819535

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The Variegated Plumage Encounters with Indian Philosophy a commemorative volume dedicated to the memory of Pandit Jankinath Kaul Kamal` is a collection of diverse scholarly articles and research papers contributed by the veterans who are specialists in their respective fields. The present volume adequately covers different aspects of Indian Philosophy and culture. The extensive section will provide impetus to further research in the subject. The second section is a collection of papers dealing with a wide range of issues in Indian Philosophy and culture.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Wisdom
Encyclopaedia of Indian Wisdom

Author: Satyavrat Sastri

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13:

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Satyavrat Sastri, b. 1930, Sanskrit scholar and Vice-chancellor, Shrijagannath Sanskrit University; contributed articles.