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Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective

Exploratory Essays in Current Theories and Classical Indian Theories of Meaning and Reference

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Editors:
  1. Bimal Krishna Matilal

    1. All Souls College, Oxford, UK

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  2. Jaysankar Lal Shaw

    1. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
      University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 178)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective: An Introduction

    • Bimal K. Matilal
    Pages 1-37

  3. We are All Children of God

    • M. J. Cresswell
    Pages 39-60

  4. The Syncategorematic Treatment of Predicates

    • Paul Gochet
    Pages 61-80

  5. The Paradox of Naming

    • W. Lycan
    Pages 81-102

  6. Substance and Kind: Reflections on the New Theory of Reference

    • Steven E. Boër
    Pages 103-150

  7. The Easy Examination Paradox

    • Frank Jackson
    Pages 151-159

  8. Models for Actions

    • Krister Segerberg
    Pages 161-171

  9. Some Problems Concerning Meaning

    • Kalidas Bhattacharva
    Pages 173-187

  10. Abstraction, Analysis and Universals: The Navya-Nyāya Theory

    • S. Bhattacharya
    Pages 189-202

  11. Psychologism in Indian Logical Theory

    • J. N. Mohanty
    Pages 203-211

  12. A Speech-Act Model for Understanding Nayva-Nyāya Epistemology

    • Karl H. Potter
    Pages 213-230

  13. Some Epistemologically Misleading Expressions: “Inference” and “Anumāna”, “Perception” and “Pratyakṣa”

    • Douglas D. Daye
    Pages 231-252

  14. The Prābhākara Mimāṃsā Theory of Related Designation

    • Mark Siderits
    Pages 253-297

  15. Plato’s Indian Barbers

    • A. Chakrabarti
    Pages 299-326

  16. Proper Names: Contemporary Philosophy and the Nyāya

    • J. L. Shaw
    Pages 327-372

  17. Awareness and Meaning in Navya-Nyāya

    • Bimal Krishna Matilal
    Pages 373-391

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 393-406
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About this book

We are grateful to the authors who wrote papers specially for this volume and kindly gave their permission for printing them together. None of these papers appeared anywhere before. Our special thanks are due to the first six authors who kindly responded to our request and agreed to join this new venture which we are calling 'comparative perspective' in ana­ lytical philosophy. In the introductory essay certain salient points from each paper have been noted only to show how 'com­ parative perspective' may add to, and be integrated with, mod­ ern philosophical discussion in the analytic tradition. Need­ less to say, any mistake, possible mis-attribution or misrepresentation of the views of the original authors of the papers (appearing in the said introductory essay) is entirely the responsibility of the author of that essay. The author apologizes if there has been such unintentional misrepresenta­ tion and insists that the readers should depend upon the orig­ inal papers themselves for their own understanding. For typo­ graphical problems it has not always been possible to use the symbols originally used by the authors, but care has been taken to use the proper substitute for each of them. Bimal K. Matilal ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: AN INTRODUCTION 1. The aim of this volume is to extend the horizon of philosophi­ cal analysis as it is practiced today.

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"The aims of the collection … are ‘to extend the horizon of philosophical analysis as it is practiced today’ and to ‘open up a new area of contemporary philosophical research’. … The authors … are all accomplished logicians and analytic philosophers. Their essays make valuable contributions to their respective fields ... . this volume, as part of the distinguished Synthese Library, may be expected to promote the growth of this area of research by reaching out to a wider philosophical audience." (Hans G. Herzberger, Journal of Indian Philosophy, Issue 15, 1987)

Editors and Affiliations

  • All Souls College, Oxford, UK

    Bimal Krishna Matilal

  • Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    Jaysankar Lal Shaw

  • University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

    Jaysankar Lal Shaw

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective

  • Book Subtitle: Exploratory Essays in Current Theories and Classical Indian Theories of Meaning and Reference

  • Editors: Bimal Krishna Matilal, Jaysankar Lal Shaw

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6499-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1870-9Published: 31 December 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6501-0Published: 15 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6499-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 406

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Non-Western Philosophy, Epistemology

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