Beschreibung:
Professor Sundar Sarukkai works primarily in the philosophy of the natural and the social sciences. He is the founder of Barefoot Philosophers (barefootphilosophers.org) and is currently a Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is the author of Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry, Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, What is Science?, JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy and two books co-authored with Gopal Guru - The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory and more recently, Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social. His latest book is Philosophy for Children: Thinking, Reading, Writing and it is published in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali. He is the Series Editor for the Science and Technology Studies Series, Routledge. Sarukkai was a professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies until 2019 and was the Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities from 2010-2015.
This collection of articles is unique in the way it approaches established material on the various logical traditions in India. Instead of classifying these traditions within Schools as is the usual approach, the material here is classified into sections based on themes ranging from Fundamentals of ancient logical traditions to logic in contemporary mathematics and computer science. This collection offers not only an introduction to the key themes in different logical traditions such as Nyaya, Buddhist and Jaina, it also highlights certain unique characteristics of these traditions as well as contribute new material in the relationship of logic to aesthetics, linguistics, Kashmir Saivism as well as the forgotten Tamil contribution to logic.
Title is also available as part of a set: Handbook of Logical Thought in India (978-81-322-2578-2)
Early Nyaya Logic: Pragmatic Aspects.- Early Nyaya Logic: Rhetorical Aspects.- Later Nyaya Logic: Computational Aspects.- Later Nyaya Logic: Formal Aspects.- Buddhist Logic: Sample Texts.- General Introduction to Buddhist Logic.- Introduction to Buddhist Logicians and Their Texts.- Some Issues in Buddhist Logic.- General Introduction to Logic in Jainism with List of Logicians and Their Texts.- Logic of Syad-vada.- Logical Argument in Vidyanandin's Satya-sasana-pariksa.- The Opponent: Jain logicians Reacting to Dharmakirti's Theory of Inference.- Convergence and Divergence of Nyaya and Tatvavada (Dvaita) Theories of Logic.- Dependency of Inference on Perception and Verbal Testimony
