This book presents a readable translation and philosophic commentary on a crucial and difficult text of Navya Nyaya and classical Indian logic. The inferential undercutter’s significance is explained within the context of Nyaya’s theory of knowledge, which had wide influence in the late classical culture, from philosophy to jurisprudence and aesthetics. Gangesa, the commonly recognized founder of "New Logic," is shown here to be an epistemologist and logician of the very first order. The book has been written for philosophers who are unfamiliar with Nyaya and Sanskrit philosophic terminology as well as for Indian philosophy specialists. An introduction places Gangesa’s work within historical and ideative context, and a glossary explains his technical terms.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya, formerly Vice Chancellor, Tirupati Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, has Honor for excellence in Sanskrit and Philosophy, and is widely recognized as one of India's greatest masters of Sanskrit in all areas. He is author of Pratyaksatattvacintamani Vimarsa (1992) as well as numerous research papers in Sanskrit, and has edited critically in three volumes the perception and inference chapters of Gangesa's Tattvacintamani along with the commentaries of Rucidatta and Ramakrsnadhvarin (1972,1982, and 1999).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephen H. Phillips
Stephen H. Phillips is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman (1986) and Classical Indian Metaphysics (1995); Indian edition, 1996), as well as more than fifty research papers. He is editor of Philosophy of Religion: A Global Appraoch (1996) and co-editor of three other volumes, Professor Phillips received his doctorate from Harvard University.
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