Comparative philosophy and J.L. Shaw. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Purushottama Bilimoira, Michael Hemmingsen, editors.
• Editors: Bilimoria, Purusottama; Hemmingsen, Michael
• Contents: Introduction; Purushottama Bilimoria & Michael Hemmingsen -- Part I Language -- J.L. Shaw on Meaning; Partha S. Das -- Noun Phrases and Truth in the Nyāya and Western Pragmatics; David Lumsden -- Controversy over the Availability of Frege's Sense in Indian Philosophy of Language: The Case of J.L. Shaw and the Nyāya; Amitabha Das Gupta -- The Radical Emptiness of Empty Terms: Saving the Buddhists from the Nyāya; Fred Kroon -- The Nyāya on Identity Relation and Identity Statements; Tamoghna Sarkar -- Part II Epistemology -- The Relevance of Indian Epistemology to Contemporary Western Philosophy; J.L. Shaw -- Nyāya, J.L. Shaw and Epistemic Luck; Payal Doctor -- The Nyāya Misplacement Theory of Illusion & the Metaphysical Problem of Perception; Anand Jayprakash Vaidya -- Contents of Experience: Revisited; Monima Chadha -- Part III Mathematics and Logic -- What Part of 'Not' Don't We Understand?; Nicholas Griffin -- Negation (Abhāva) in the Mimāṃsā as Real Non-Existent and a Distinctive Pramāna; Purushottama Bilimoria -- The Logical Structure of the Third and Fifth Definitions in the Vyāptipañcaka Section of Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi; Toshihiro Wada -- Mathematical Existence via Necessary Properties: Some Conceptual Challenges to J.L. Shaw; Rafal Urbaniak -- Application of Nyāya to Intelligent Systems; G.S. Mahalakshmi -- Part IV Ethics -- Artificial Intelligences and Karma: An Evaluation of Information Technology in Light of J.L. Shaw's Concept of Moral Free Will; Papia Mitra -- Conceptions and Intuitions of the Highest Good in Buddhist Philosophy: A Meta-Ethical Analysis; Gordon F. Davis.
• Edition: 1st ed
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 109; Philosophy, Comparative; PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General; Philosophy, Comparative; Philosophy; Epistemology; Asian Languages; Political Philosophy; Logic; Non-Western Philosophy; Metaphysics; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319178738; 3319178733; 3319178725; 9783319178721
• Related ISBNs: 9783319178721; 3319178725
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 9, 2015).
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