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Informationen zum Autor Nalini Bhushan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Smith CollegeJay Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Smith College and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy and several other books with Oxford University Press Daniel Raveh is Lecturer in Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University Klappentext This volume collects selected works of Daya Krishna, one of the major Indian philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. Zusammenfassung This volume collects selected works of Daya Krishna, one of the major Indian philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Preface (Shail Mayalam) Introduction (Arindam Chakrabarti) I.Entrée Thinking vs. Thought: Strategies for Conceptual Creativity: 1 II. Thinking about Thinking Thinking Creatively about the Creative Act: 2 Thinking with Causality about Causality: 3 III.Samvad Comparative Philosophy: What it is and what it ought to be: 4 Apoha and Samavaya in Kantian Perspective: 5 Is Tattvam Asi the Same Type of Identity Statement as The Morning Star is the Evening Star?: 6 IV.Vaidalya Rasa: The Bane of Indian Aesthetics: 7 Substance: The Bane of Philosophy: 8 V. Negation Negation - Can Philosophy ever recover from it?: 9 Some Problems regarding thinking about Abhava: 10 VI. Knowledge Knowledge: Whose is it? What is it? And why has it to be true?: 11 Definition, Deception and the Enterprise of Knowledge: 12 VII. Truth Madness, Reason and Truth: 13 Illusion, Hallucination and the problem of Truth: 14 Reality, Imagination and Truth: 15 VIII. Indian Philosophical Reflections Shockproof, Evidence-proof, Argument-proof World of Sampradayika: 16 Scholarship of Indian Philosophy Can the Analysis of Adhyasa Ever Lead to an Advaitic Conclusion?: 17 IX. Sruti Is the doctrine of Arthavada compatible with the idea of Sruti?: 18 The Mimamsaka versus the Yajñika: some further problems in the interpretation of Sruti: 19 Veda Rg Veda: The Mantra, the Sukta and the Mandala or The Rsi, the Devata, the Chanda--: 20 The Structure of the Text and the Problems regarding it The Vedic Corpus and the two Sutra-Texts, concerned with it; The Mimamsa Sutra: 21 and the Brahma Sutra XI. Transgressions Did the Gopis Really Love Krishna?: 22 An Alleged Anecdote Revisited: Sankara in the King's Body: 23 XII. Free Thinking Freeing Philosophy from the 'Prison-House' of 'I-Centricity': 24 Freedom, Reason, Ethics and Aesthetics: 25 Envoi Eros, Nomos, Logos: 26 Index ...