1st Edition

Epistemology Indian Philosophy

Edited By Roy W. Perrett Copyright 2001
392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2001. The five volumes of this series collect together some of the most significant modern contributions to the study of Indian philosophy. Volume 1: Epistemology is concerned with the nature and scope of Indian pramana theory, i.e. that part of Indian philosophy concerned with the nature and sources of knowledge. Indian philosophers developed a causal theory of knowledge and... Read more
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

Biography

Roy W. Perrett Massey University