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100			_aGaneri, Jonardon _947247
245			_aLost age of reason : philosophy in early modern India 1450-1700
260			_bOxford University Press _c2014 _aNew York
300			_axiii,284p.
505			_aCONTENTS Chronology ix Principal Philosophers Discussed xi Map xiii Introduction 1 Part I. India Expanding 11 1 The World and India: 1656 13 Francois Bernier and his pandit 13 The public profile of the 'new reason' 16 2 Dara Shukoh: A Spacious Islam 22 Migrating texts 22 Translating Sanskrit into Persian 23 A religious cosmopolitanism 24 Meeting of two oceans 26 Another affinity 28 3 The Cosmopolitan Vision of Yasovijaya Gani 31 Studying the 'new reason' in VaranasI 32 Secular intellectual values 33 Reflections on the self 35 Yasovijaya and Dara Shukoh: a cosmopolitan ideal 36 4 Navadvipa: A Place of Hindu-Muslim Confluence in Bengal 39 A Bengali sultanate independent ot Delhi 40 The curious biography of a teacher 41 Raghunatha Siromani (c. 1460-1540) 44 The final years of Navadvipa 51 Part II. Text and Method 61 5 Contextualism in The Study of Indian Philosophical Literature 63 Quentin Skinner and perfonnative speech-acts 63 Intertextual intervention 65 Prolepsis and anticipation 68 Cultural indexicals 70 Immersion and Indian intellectual practice 72 6 Philosophers outside Academies: Networks 74 The new reason and the court of Akbar 75 A less embedded network 79 A Navadvipa-based network 81 Rivalry over Raghunatha 84 New developments in NavadvTpa 85 7 An Analysis of the New Reason's Literary Artefacts 89 Commentaries 91 Internal critiques of Vaisesika metaphysics 95 Research monographs 96 Manuals for new students 98 8 Commentary and Creativity 102 Commentary as mediating a conversation with the past 102 Towards a typology of commentary 104 Commentary as weaving a text 107 The singly authored principles-and-gloss text 112 Part III. The Possibility of Inquiry 117 9 Inquiry: The History of a Crisis 119 Inquiry in the knowledge disciplines 119 Inquiry in early Nyaya 122 Ways of gaining knowledge 125 Sriharsa's 'refutations' 127 10 Challenge From the Ritualists 131 Scepticism and truth in the Gemstone 131 Two models of inquiry 135 An intrinsicist theory of error in action 139 Knowing naturalized 142 11 Interventions in a New Research Programme 145 Difficulties in Garigesa's theory 145 The Precious Jewel of Reason: a genealogical state-of-research review 147 Self-conscious modernities 149 The weight of evidence 153 A method for rightly conducting reason in the Garland of Principles 157 Part IV. The Real World 163 12 Realism in Question 165 The reach of Vaisesika realism 165 Realism and reference 168 Grades of existence 170 Epistemic constraints on the concept of truth 172 'Whatever is, is knowable and nameable' 175 Realism and reduction 179 13 New Foundations in the Metaphysics of Mathematics 181 Mathematics and the philosophical theory of number 181 Counting and construction 182 Numbers as properties of objects 187 Indefinite pluralities 191 Raghunatha's non-reductive realism 194 14 Metaphysics in a Different Key 200 Raghunatha's challenge 200 Naturalism and reductionism in the Essence of Reason 201 Escaping the oscillation between eliminativism and non-reductivism 206 The Garland of Categories: naturalism and reduction 211 Mechanical philosophy in the Garland of Categories'? 214 Part V. A New Language for Philosophy 221 15 The Technical Language Assessed 223 The importance of disambiguation 224 The syntax of the formal system 226 A semantics for the language 228 Reparsing ordinary language 230 The new language and the predicate calculus 232 16 Rival Logics of Domain Restriction 237 Analysis from Buddhist sources 238 The early modern theory: a unified account 240 Conclusion 244 Recommended Further Readings 252 Bibliography 254 Index 279
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