Comparative Philosophy and J.L. Shaw

Regarding the editors, Purushottama Bilimoria is a honorary professor at Deakin University and research fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia, a Visiting Professor and Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union. His areas of specialist research and publications cover classical Indian philosophy and comparative ethics; Continental thought; cross-cultural philosophy of religion, diaspora studies; bioethics, and personal law in India. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Sophia, Journal of Philosophy of Religion, Springer. He also edits a book series with Springer on Sophia: cross-cultural studies in Culture and Traditions, Recent publication is Indian Ethics I, Ashgate 2007; OUP 2008, and Sabdapramana: Word and Knowledge (Testimony) in Indian Philosophy (revised reprint), Delhi: DK Print World 2008; ‘Nietzsche as ‘Europe’s Buddha’ and Asia’s Superman, Sophia, vol 47/3 2008; Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (with Andrew Irvine, Ken Surin et al) Springer 2009. Teaches and publishes on Hindu religious philosophies. Also works on political philosophy, pertaining to ethics of rights, theories of justice, capabilities, education and gender issues in third world, particularly South Asian, contexts.Michael Hemmingsen, McMaster University, Canada, is the editor of Human Beings and Freedom: An Interdisciplinary Perspective and Meaning and Identity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, and author of “Unconventional Interpretations: Deleuze and the Vedānta on Spinoza,” and “Post-Modern Cosmopolitanism and Discourse Ethics.” He studied International Relations and Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His interests include political philosophy – particularly around public discourse and equality – human rights and metaethics. His current research is looking at how to model public discourse in a way that allows full expression to currently excluded epistemologies and in particularindigenous forms of knowledge.

• 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.