The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian by Jaysankar Lal Shaw

By Jaysankar Lal Shaw

one of many first philosophers to narrate Indian philosophical concept to Western analytic philosophy, Jaysankar Lal Shaw has been reflecting on analytic topics from Indian philosophy for over forty years. This number of his most crucial writings, introduces his paintings and offers new methods of utilizing Indian classical idea to strategy and comprehend Western philosophy.

By increasing, reinterpreting and reclassifying thoughts and perspectives of Indian philosophers, Shaw applies them to the most matters and theories mentioned in modern philosophy of language and epistemology. conscientiously developed, this quantity of his accrued writings, exhibits the parallels Shaw attracts among center themes in either traditions, similar to right names, yes descriptions, that means of a sentence, wisdom, doubt, inference and testimony. It captures how Shaw makes use of the concepts and ideas of Indian philosophers, specifically the fans of the Navya-Nyaya, to handle international difficulties like fake trust, better order wisdom and impressive conception. Exploring undying rules from Indian concept along significant matters in modern philosophy, Shaw unearths how the 2 traditions can engage and throw gentle on one another, supplying larger strategies to philosophical difficulties. He has additionally mirrored on glossy concerns akin to freedom, morality and concord from the classical Indian thought.

Featuring a thesaurus and updates to his writings,The accrued Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy also contains new paintings via Shaw at the courting among Indian and analytic philosophy today.

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