Contemporary Philosophy and J.L. Shaw
Contents: 1. Foreword/Surabhi Banerjee. 2. Preface/Sanat Kumar Sen. 3. Introduction. 4. Prameyas and J.L.Shaw/P.Bilimoria. 5. Negation in Perception Sentences/M.J. Cresswell. 6. Epistemic Logic and Shaw\'s Nyaya on Indexicals/Paul Gochet. 7. Nyaya-Negation : Some Comments and Queries/M.K. Chakraborty. 8. Essentialism Rejected? Plato\'s Particulars and Other Things/Adriane Rini. 9. Noun Phrases,Sentences and Truth/David Lumsden. 10. Strawson and Shaw\'s Nyaya on Meaning/Blyth Sansom. 11. Towards a Theory of Predication/R. Mukhopadhyay. 12. Meaning and Truth of a Sentence/Srilekha Datta. 13. The Essence of Hinduism and J.L. Shaw/S. M. Gupta. 14. Swami Vivekananda on Dharma and Shaw/Tirthanath Bandyopadhyay. 15. The Relevance of Indian Philosophy of Language to contemporary Western Philosophy/J. L. Shaw. 16. J. L. Shaw and Philosophy/U. P. Singh. 17. List of contributors. 18. Index.
"The volume felicitates and honours the scholarly achievements of Dr. Jaysankar Lal Shaw, one of the significant stalwarts of Indian and comparative phiosophy in the contemporary analytical context. The volume includes essays from some of the leading philosophers and logicians. such as Max Cresswell, Paul Gochet and Mihir Chakraborty, and others, representing four continents.
J.L. Shaw has explored and reflected on a range of important topics, such as knowledge, belief, doubt, cognition, perception, causality, number, meaning, subject-predicate, harmony and freedom. His interpretation of the Nyaya concept of negation and double negation, indexicals, semantic meaning, and the other topics have been discussed and responded to in the essays collected for this volume. Through a sustained comparative analysis drawing on classical Indian perspectives, solutions have been argued for; and this method can be utilized for solving some of the problems of western philosophy of language, logic, and epistemology, as Dr. Shaw has ably demonstrated in his own works over some four decades. He received his PhD from Rice University (USA) in 1969."
