Analogy in Indian and Western Philosophical Thought

• Main Author: Zilberman, David B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gourko, Helena (Editor), Cohen, Robert S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 243
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Logic.; Philosophy, Asian.; Philosophy, general.; Non-Western Philosophy.

This book is unusual in many respects. It was written by a prolific author whose tragic untimely death did not allow to finish this and many other of his undertakings. It was assembled from numerous excerpts, notes, and fragments according to his initial plans. Zilberman’s legacy still awaits its tr...

Table of Contents:

• Introductory Essay
• On the Composition of This Book
• Analogy in Western Philosophy and Indian Approaches to Analogy: Introduction
• Analogy in Navya-Ny?ya
• History of Indian Logic
• The Indian Type of Cultural Tradition
• Revelation of the Mechanism of Tradition in a form of Grammatical Paradigms of Indian Logic
• The Teaching of a kar? on Intuition and the Organization of Philosophical Texts in Order to Perceive the Transcendental
• M?m? s?/On Certainty of Perception in M?m? s?
• Advaita-Ved?nta: ‘?ariraka-Bh? ya’
• Upade?a-Sahasri (Note 1)
• Writing and Tradition
• Tradition of the Idea of Man
• The Hellenic Type of cultural Tradition
• The Western Type of Cultural Tradition.