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Classical Indian Philosophy of Mind: The Nyaya Dualist Tradition Paperback – May 27, 1999

by Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti (Author)

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Addresses the psycho-physical dualism of the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy with references to both Indian and Western philosophy.

"This is, in many respects, an absolutely fascinating book. It presents the views of a major Indian school of philosophy in a clear and compelling way. The views on mind, or self, and body are explained in a way that makes it easy for a student of Western philosophy to understand and appreciate them. The Indian views are interesting in themselves and quite pertinent to Western philosophy, including contemporary discussions of mind and cognition."- John Kearns, author of Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes

This book examines psycho-physical dualism as developed by the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy. Dualism is important to many world religions which promote personal immortality and to morality which promotes free will. For the Nyaya, the self is a permanent, immaterial substance to which non-physical internal states like cognition belong. This view is challenged by other Indian schools, especially the Buddhist and Carvaka schools.

Chakrabarti brings out the connections between the Indian and the Western debates over the mind-body problem and shows that the Nyaya position is well developed, well articulated, and defensible. He shows that Nyaya dualism differs from Cartesian dualism and is not vulnerable to some traditional objections against the latter. A brief discussion of the Samkhya and the Advaita theories of the self and the critique of these views from the Nyaya standpoint are included, as well as a discussion of a classical Nyaya causal argument for the existence of God. The appendix contains an annotated translation of selected portions of Udayana's masterpiece, Atmatattvaviveka (Discerning the Nature of the Self.)

"The author is evidently extremely knowledgeable about both Indian and Western philosophy. This comes out in a number of brilliant discussions of aspects of Western thought, both contemporary and classical, that he finds relevant to positions taken and analyses proffered by Nyaya-Vaisesika thinkers. Chakrabarti is especially brilliant in his expositions of facets of Nyaya-Vaisesika philosophy." - Karl H. Potter, University of Washington.

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This is, in many respects, an absolutely fascinating book. It presents the views of a major Indian school of philosophy in a clear and compelling way. The views on mind, or self, and body are explained in a way that makes it easy for a student of Western philosophy to understand and appreciate them. The Indian views are interesting in themselves and quite pertinent to Western philosophy, including contemporary discussions of mind and cognition. John Kearns, author of Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes
"The author is evidently extremely knowledgeable about both Indian and Western philosophy. This comes out in a number of brilliant discussions of aspects of Western thought, both contemporary and classical, that he finds relevant to positions taken and analyses proffered by Nyaya-Vaisesika thinkers. Chakrabarti is especially brilliant in his expositions of facets of Nyaya-Vaisesika philosophy." - Karl H. Potter, University of Washington."

"This is, in many respects, an absolutely fascinating book. It presents the views of a major Indian school of philosophy in a clear and compelling way. The views on mind, or self, and body are explained in a way that makes it easy for a student of Western philosophy to understand and appreciate them. The Indian views are interesting in themselves and quite pertinent to Western philosophy, including contemporary discussions of mind and cognition."- John Kearns, author of Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes

"The author is evidently extremely knowledgeable about both Indian and Western philosophy. This comes out in a number of brilliant discussions of aspects of Western thought, both contemporary and classical, that he finds relevant to positions taken and analyses proffered by Nyaya-Vaisesika thinkers. Chakrabarti is especially brilliant in his expositions of facets of Nyaya-Vaisesika philosophy." - Karl H. Potter, University of Washington.

About the Author

Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti is the Forrest S. and Jean B. Williams Professor, Ferrum College. He is the author of The Logic of Gotama and Definition and Induction.

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Paperback: 330 pages
Publisher: State University of New York Press; Annotated edition edition (May 27, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0791441725
ISBN-13: 978-0791441725
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Excellent. Exercises and sharpens reason and logic like no other book I've read. Highly recommended for thinkers who wish to probe the mystery of sentience.

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Careful, thorough and interesting

November 26, 2001

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Chakrabarti introduces the Nyaya school's theory of a non-physical self with great care. Not only is Chakrabarti's work carefully done, but the Nyaya school's position itself is carefully argued. (The Nyaya school began with Gotama, traditionally dated at 6th C. bc.) Unlike most theories of a non-physical self, the Nyaya theory construes the self as extended in space. The book contains a plethora of arguments that there is a self, contra the Humean or Buddhist flux view, and that it is a non-physical thing, contra the materialist view. Also, Chakrabarti includes many translations of Nyaya texts from Gotama, Vatsyayana (2nd C. bc), and Udayana (11th C. ad). The book is a service to the history of philosophy, in that it brings this rigorously analytic school of philosophy to light. India had the first hardcore analytic philosophers in history, if Gotama's dates are correct. Read the passages. You feel like you're reading 20th C. philosophy of mind. But it's many centuries bc.

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As a student of Chakrabarti, I've got to say that this book was extremely enlightening. Not only does he offer very sound proofs for psycho-physical dualism, but he also offers refutations of Cartesian and Materialist views. His proofs are very simple and worded in ways that a layman can understand.

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