This book is not only a commentary on Pandit Visvabandhu articles on anuvyavasaya but also contains explanations of several concepts which are indispensable for understanding Indian philosophy, especially the Nyaya system. The book addresses the question: How do we cognize a cognition? In addition to a critical examination of 3 views on this subject, the book discusses other topics such as types of cognition, meaning, causality, perception, inference and fallacies.
This book will be very useful to students of Indian Philosophy as well as to professionals in this field for understanding some of the key concepts of logic, epistemology, and philosophy of language. Moreover, these concepts and techniques may be used for solving some of the problems of Western philosophy.
Pandit Visvabandhu Tarkatirtha, one of the few distinguished scholars of Indian philosophy, is not only well-versed in Navya-Nyaya, but also in Vedanta, especially the Advaita Vedanta. After having taught for more than fifty years at several universities and colleges he is now a Visiting Professor at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. A creative scholar, he has published several books and articles on Navya-Nyaya and Vedanta in Sanskrit as well as in Bengali.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR J L Shaw
Jaysankar Lal Shaw, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, had his education at Calcutta University and received his Ph.D. at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He taught at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, at the University of Alabama, and was an Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii. In 1985, he jointly edited analytical Philosophy in Comparative perspective, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Holland. In 1998, his book Cognition of Cognition: A Commentary on Pandit Visvabandhu was published by the Ramaksrihna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta. In 2003, his books The Nyaya on Meaning: A Commentary on Pandit Visvabandhu, and Some Logical Problems Concerning existence were published by Punthi Pustak. Recently his monograph on Swami Vivekananda As A Philosopher was published by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. He has also published in international journals and anthologies over 60 papers on topics such as meaning, subject and predicate, negation, belief, knowledge, higher order cognition number, existence, causality, freedom and harmony. He has presented approximately 80 papers on comparative philosophy at conferences in New Zealand, Australia, India, Japan, Hong Kong, England, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Holland, and the United States. He has also directed orientation courses on comparative philosophy in several countries.J.L.
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