Epistemology : Indian Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780815336099 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 392 str.

Roy W. Perrett

Opis

This volume is concerned with the nature and scope of Indian pramana theory, that part of Indian philosophy concerned with the nature and sources of knowledge. Indian philosophers developed a causal theory of knowledge and acknowledge the existence of a number of valid ways of knowing, including perception, inference, and testimony. The Indian praman theorists thus discussed many issues that have also occupied Western epistemologists, often offering importantly different perspectives on these matters. They also sometimes addressed various interesting questions about knowledge that are unfamiliar to Western epistemologists. The selections in this volume discuss Indian treatments of epistemological topics like the means of knowledge, realsim and anti-realism, truth, knowledge of knowledge, illusion and perceptual error, knowability, testimpny, scepticsm and doubt.

Spis treści

Volume Introduction, 1 A Fragment of the Indian Philosophical Tradition -Theory of Prama-a; Nagarjuna as Anti-Realist; Introduction to Gangda's Theory of Truth; Dharmakirti's Theory of Truth; Does Indian Epistemology Concern Justified True Belief? Knowing That One Knows; The Indian Concepts of Knowledge and Self; Padmapada's Illusion Argument; Dreams and Reality: The Sarikarite Critique of Vijfianavada; Dreams and the Coherence of Experience: An Anti-Idealist Critique from Classical Indian Philosophy; Astitva Jiieyatva Abhidheyatva; The Nyaya on Existence, Knowability and Nameability; Is Whatever Exists Knowable and Nameable? On Knowing by Being Told; The Nyaya Theory of Doubt

O autorze

Roy W. Perrett Massey University