Lost age of reason : philosophy in early modern India 1450-1700 (Record no. 42866)
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| fixed length control field | 04175 a2200169 4500 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780198701507 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 181.4 |
| Item number | GAN |
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| Personal name | Ganeri, Jonardon |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Lost age of reason : philosophy in early modern India 1450-1700 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Oxford University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2014 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii,284p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Chronology ix<br/>Principal Philosophers Discussed xi<br/>Map xiii <br/>Introduction 1<br/>Part I. India Expanding 11<br/>1 The World and India: 1656 13<br/> Francois Bernier and his pandit 13 <br/> The public profile of the 'new reason' 16<br/>2 Dara Shukoh: A Spacious Islam 22 <br/> Migrating texts 22<br/>Translating Sanskrit into Persian 23 <br/>A religious cosmopolitanism 24<br/>Meeting of two oceans 26<br/>Another affinity 28<br/>3 The Cosmopolitan Vision of Yasovijaya Gani 31<br/> Studying the 'new reason' in VaranasI 32<br/>Secular intellectual values 33<br/>Reflections on the self 35<br/>Yasovijaya and Dara Shukoh: a cosmopolitan ideal 36<br/>4 Navadvipa: A Place of Hindu-Muslim Confluence in Bengal 39 <br/> A Bengali sultanate independent ot Delhi 40 <br/>The curious biography of a teacher 41 <br/>Raghunatha Siromani (c. 1460-1540) 44<br/>The final years of Navadvipa 51<br/>Part II. Text and Method 61<br/>5 Contextualism in The Study of Indian Philosophical Literature 63 <br/> Quentin Skinner and perfonnative speech-acts 63<br/>Intertextual intervention 65<br/>Prolepsis and anticipation 68<br/>Cultural indexicals 70<br/>Immersion and Indian intellectual practice 72<br/>6 Philosophers outside Academies: Networks 74<br/> The new reason and the court of Akbar 75<br/>A less embedded network 79<br/>A Navadvipa-based network 81<br/>Rivalry over Raghunatha 84<br/>New developments in NavadvTpa 85<br/>7 An Analysis of the New Reason's Literary Artefacts 89<br/>Commentaries 91<br/>Internal critiques of Vaisesika metaphysics 95<br/>Research monographs 96<br/>Manuals for new students 98<br/>8 Commentary and Creativity 102<br/>Commentary as mediating a conversation with the past 102<br/>Towards a typology of commentary 104<br/>Commentary as weaving a text 107<br/>The singly authored principles-and-gloss text 112<br/>Part III. The Possibility of Inquiry 117<br/>9 Inquiry: The History of a Crisis 119<br/>Inquiry in the knowledge disciplines 119<br/>Inquiry in early Nyaya 122<br/>Ways of gaining knowledge 125<br/>Sriharsa's 'refutations' 127<br/>10 Challenge From the Ritualists 131<br/>Scepticism and truth in the Gemstone 131<br/>Two models of inquiry 135<br/>An intrinsicist theory of error in action 139<br/>Knowing naturalized 142<br/>11 Interventions in a New Research Programme 145<br/>Difficulties in Garigesa's theory 145<br/>The Precious Jewel of Reason: a genealogical state-of-research review 147<br/>Self-conscious modernities 149<br/>The weight of evidence 153<br/>A method for rightly conducting reason in the Garland of Principles 157<br/>Part IV. The Real World 163<br/>12 Realism in Question 165<br/>The reach of Vaisesika realism 165<br/>Realism and reference 168<br/>Grades of existence 170<br/>Epistemic constraints on the concept of truth 172<br/>'Whatever is, is knowable and nameable' 175<br/>Realism and reduction 179<br/>13 New Foundations in the Metaphysics of Mathematics 181<br/>Mathematics and the philosophical theory of number 181<br/>Counting and construction 182<br/>Numbers as properties of objects 187<br/>Indefinite pluralities 191<br/>Raghunatha's non-reductive realism 194<br/>14 Metaphysics in a Different Key 200<br/>Raghunatha's challenge 200<br/>Naturalism and reductionism in the Essence of Reason 201<br/>Escaping the oscillation between eliminativism and non-reductivism 206<br/>The Garland of Categories: naturalism and reduction 211<br/>Mechanical philosophy in the Garland of Categories'? 214<br/>Part V. A New Language for Philosophy 221<br/>15 The Technical Language Assessed 223<br/>The importance of disambiguation 224<br/>The syntax of the formal system 226<br/>A semantics for the language 228<br/>Reparsing ordinary language 230<br/>The new language and the predicate calculus 232<br/>16 Rival Logics of Domain Restriction 237<br/>Analysis from Buddhist sources 238<br/>The early modern theory: a unified account 240<br/>Conclusion 244<br/>Recommended Further Readings 252<br/>Bibliography 254<br/>Index 279<br/><br/> |
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| Country | USA |
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| Topic | General |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Withdrawn status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last borrowed | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 02/08/2016 | Alpha Book Co. | 1389.00 | 5 | 5 | 181.4 GAN | 015987 | 05/03/2018 | 08/01/2018 | 1916.09 | 25/05/2016 | Book |