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The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy
Jaysankar Lal Shaw
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Hardback. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPDF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 975.
One of the first philosophers to relate Indian philosophical thought to Western analytic philosophy, Jaysankar Lal Shaw has been reflecting on analytic themes from Indian philosophy for over 40 years. This collection of his most important writings, introduces his work and presents new ways of using Indian classical thought to approach and understand Western philosophy. By expanding, reinterpreting and reclassifying concepts and views of Indian philosophers, Shaw applies them to the main issues and theories discussed in contemporary philosophy of language and epistemology. Carefully constructed, this volume of his collected writings, shows the parallels Shaw draws between ... Read more
One of the first philosophers to relate Indian philosophical thought to Western analytic philosophy, Jaysankar Lal Shaw has been reflecting on analytic themes from Indian philosophy for over 40 years. This collection of his most important writings, introduces his work and presents new ways of using Indian classical thought to approach and understand Western philosophy. By expanding, reinterpreting and reclassifying concepts and views of Indian philosophers, Shaw applies them to the main issues and theories discussed in contemporary philosophy of language and epistemology. Carefully constructed, this volume of his collected writings, shows the parallels Shaw draws between ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474245050
SKU
V9781474245050
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99-5
About Jaysankar Lal Shaw
Jaysankar Lal Shaw is Associate Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has taught at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, at the University of Alabama, USA, and the University of Hawaii, USA. Together with B.K. Matilal, he co-edited Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective (1985).
Reviews for The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy
Shaw's work at the borders of Anglo-Analytic and Indian-Analytic philosophy is extremely engaging and it truly demonstrates how Indian philosophy can be a part of the contemporary world philosophy and comparative philosophy milieu … [this book] provides a bridge between contemporary research in analytic philosophy and classical Indian philosophy across a number of core areas. One can be assured that ... Read more