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 book honors him by continuing his lifelong project: faithfully interpreting Sanskrit texts to think along with their authors about ideas which still perplex us today.
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 which 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' 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.
Introduction Part 1: Early and Classical Indian Philosophy
1. Following
Phillipss Lead: Fallacies, Critical Thinking, and Contemplation Matthew
Dasti and Malcolm Keating
2. Seven to One: Fusing Vaieikas Categories with
Abhidharma Ontology Mark Siderits
3. Is Indian Epistemology Externalist? John
Taber
4. Udayana on the Indefinability of Distinctness Nilanjan Das Part 2:
Gagea and Navya-Nyya
5. Gagea and the Gettier Problem Joel Feldman
6. In
Search of Certification Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
7. Is Nyya Disjunctivist?
The Ontology of Illusion Jonardon Ganeri
8. The Nyya on Truth J. L. Shaw
Part 3: Advaita Vednta
9. Metaphors for My: Philosophical Illustrations in
akaras Advaita Vednta Neil Dalal
10. Phillipss Points and Padmapdas
Possible Defense Nirmalya Guha
Malcolm Keating is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Massachusetts. He is the author of Reason in an Uncertain World: Nyya 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 Bhaas 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 Vtsyyanas Commentary on the Nyya-stra: A Guide (2023) and, with Stephen Phillips, coauthor of The Nyya-stra: Selections with Early Commentaries (2017) and God and the Worlds 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.
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