The Vindication of the World

Essays Engaging with Stephen Phillips
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-51342-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Routledge Festschrifts in Philosophy

Stephen Phillips has devoted his career to excavating some of the most valuable gems of Indian philosophy and bringing them into conversation with contemporary thought. This volume honors him and follows his lead by continuing his lifelong project: faithfully interpreting Sanskrit texts to think along with their authors about ideas that still perplex us today.

It features ten new essays focusing on epistemology, logic, and metaphysics from outstanding philosophers and scholars of Sanskrit philosophy, with contributions varying in methodology: both historical and cross-cultural. Further, in addition to essays on Nyaya and Advaita Vedanta, it engages with Navya-Nyaya (“new Nyaya”), an important but understudied part of Indian philosophy. Through these investigations, in conversation with Phillips's groundbreaking work, the contributors show the value of cross-cultural engagement for philosophical progress.

The Vindication of the World will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy, and, more generally, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keating, Malcolm

Dasti, Matthew R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part 1: Early and Classical Indian Philosophy  1. Following Phillips’s Lead: Fallacies, Critical Thinking, and Contemplation Matthew Dasti and Malcolm Keating  2. Seven to One: Fusing Vaisesika’s Categories with Abhidharma Ontology Mark Siderits  3. Is Indian Epistemology Externalist? John Taber  4. Udayana on the Indefinability of Distinctness Nilanjan Das  Part 2: Gangesa and Navya-Nyaya  5. Gangesa and the Gettier Problem Joel Feldman  6. In Search of Certification Anand Jayprakash Vaidya  7. Is Nyaya Disjunctivist? The Ontology of Illusion Jonardon Ganeri  8. The Nyaya on Truth J. L. Shaw  Part 3: Advaita Vedanta  9. Metaphors for Maya: Philosophical Illustrations in Sankara’s Advaita Vedanta Neil Dalal  10. Phillips’s Points and Padmapada’s Possible Defense Nirmalya Guha

Über Autor(innen)

Malcolm Keating is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Massachusetts. He is the author of Reason in an Uncertain World: Nyaya Philosophers on Argumentation and Living Well (2024), Classical Sanskrit for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners (2024), Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy: Mukula Bhatta’s Fundamentals of the Communicative Function (2019), and editor of Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti (2020).

Matthew R. Dasti is Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University. He is author of Vatsyayana’s Commentary on the Nyaya-sutra: A Guide (2023) and, with Stephen Phillips, coauthor of The Nyaya-sutra: Selections with Early Commentaries (2017) and God and the World’s Arrangement (2021). He is also the co-editor of Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy (2014) and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals.