Collection
Anekāntavāda: Sources and Varieties
The special issue “Anekāntavāda: Sources and Varieties” examines the Jain doctrine of non-one-sidedness (anekāntavāda) and its corollary doctrines of conditional predication (syādvāda), and perspectives (nayavāda). These doctrines are central to Jain philosophy and have been important in the history of South Asian philosophy. The present volume aims to overcome the misconceptions associated with these celebrated yet poorly-known approaches. In order to achieve this, the collected papers (i) concretely show a range of typically Jain ways of viewing reality and relating to other traditions using the doctrines of non-one-sidedness, conditional predication, and perspectives; (ii) display the diversity of issues that these doctrines enable authors from different time-periods and contexts to address, especially concerning their conceptions of temporality, common sense, or denotation; and (iii) put these doctrines within the broader context of other contributions by Jain philosophers to the South Asian philosophical discourse.
Editors
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Marie-Hélène Gorisse
Marie-Hélène Gorisse (m.gorisse@bham.ac.uk) is Assistant Professor, Dharmanath Endowed Chair in Jain Studies, at the Department of Theology and Religion of the University of Birmingham. She specialises in Jainism and in the way its epistemology and hermeneutics developed in dialogue with other South Asian philosophico-religious traditions. She also works on the contemporary relevance of Jainism as a contributor to global philosophy. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Lille. Before coming to Birmingham, she was a Research Fellow and a Guest Professor at Ghent University, and a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS.
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Anil Mundra
Anil Mundra is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Dept. of Religion at Rutgers University - New Brunswick. His work examines how Jain philosophers and others deal with religious diversity and disagreement. His doctoral dissertation, "No Identity Without Diversity: Haribhadrasūri's Anekāntavāda as a Jain Response to Doctrinal Difference," focuses on how the classical Jain theory of non-one-sidedness allows the influential Śvetāmbara Jain philosopher Haribhadrasūri to intervene in philosophical debates and define a Jain identity within them. He received his PhD from the Philosophy of Religions program of the University of Chicago Divinity School.
