Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective: An Introduction

   • Bimal K. Matilal

   Pages 1-37

3. We are All Children of God

   • M. J. Cresswell

   Pages 39-60

4. The Syncategorematic Treatment of Predicates

   • Paul Gochet

   Pages 61-80

5. The Paradox of Naming

   • W. Lycan

   Pages 81-102

6. Substance and Kind: Reflections on the New Theory of Reference

   • Steven E. Boër

   Pages 103-150

7. The Easy Examination Paradox

   • Frank Jackson

   Pages 151-159

8. Models for Actions

   • Krister Segerberg

   Pages 161-171

9. Some Problems Concerning Meaning

   • Kalidas Bhattacharva

   Pages 173-187

10. Abstraction, Analysis and Universals: The Navya-Nyāya Theory

    • S. Bhattacharya

    Pages 189-202

11. Psychologism in Indian Logical Theory

    • J. N. Mohanty

    Pages 203-211

12. A Speech-Act Model for Understanding Nayva-Nyāya Epistemology

    • Karl H. Potter

    Pages 213-230

13. Some Epistemologically Misleading Expressions: “Inference” and “Anumāna”, “Perception” and “Pratyakṣa”

    • Douglas D. Daye

    Pages 231-252

14. The Prābhākara Mimāṃsā Theory of Related Designation

    • Mark Siderits

    Pages 253-297

15. Plato’s Indian Barbers

    • A. Chakrabarti

    Pages 299-326

16. Proper Names: Contemporary Philosophy and the Nyāya

    • J. L. Shaw

    Pages 327-372

17. Awareness and Meaning in Navya-Nyāya

    • Bimal Krishna Matilal

    Pages 373-391

18. Back Matter

    Pages 393-406

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We are grateful to the authors who wrote papers specially for this volume and kindly gave their permission for printing them together. None of these papers appeared anywhere before. Our special thanks are due to the first six authors who kindly responded to our request and agreed to join this new venture which we are calling 'comparative perspective' in ana­ lytical philosophy. In the introductory essay certain salient points from each paper have been noted only to show how 'com­ parative perspective' may add to, and be integrated with, mod­ ern philosophical discussion in the analytic tradition. Need­ less to say, any mistake, possible mis-attribution or misrepresentation of the views of the original authors of the papers (appearing in the said introductory essay) is entirely the responsibility of the author of that essay. The author apologizes if there has been such unintentional misrepresenta­ tion and insists that the readers should depend upon the orig­ inal papers themselves for their own understanding. For typo­ graphical problems it has not always been possible to use the symbols originally used by the authors, but care has been taken to use the proper substitute for each of them. Bimal K. Matilal ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: AN INTRODUCTION 1. The aim of this volume is to extend the horizon of philosophi­ cal analysis as it is practiced today.

• Plato
• analytical philosophy
• epistemology
• philosophy

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"The aims of the collection … are ‘to extend the horizon of philosophical analysis as it is practiced today’ and to ‘open up a new area of contemporary philosophical research’. … The authors … are all accomplished logicians and analytic philosophers. Their essays make valuable contributions to their respective fields ... . this volume, as part of the distinguished Synthese Library, may be expected to promote the growth of this area of research by reaching out to a wider philosophical audience." (Hans G. Herzberger, Journal of Indian Philosophy, Issue 15, 1987)

• All Souls College, Oxford, UK

  Bimal Krishna Matilal

• Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

  Jaysankar Lal Shaw

• University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

  Jaysankar Lal Shaw

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