Comparative Philosophy and J.L. Shaw

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Introduction Purushottama Bilimoria & Michael Hemmingsen.- Part I Language.- J. L. Shaw on Meaning Partha S. Das.- Noun Phrases and Truth in the Nyaya and Western Pragmatics David Lumsden.- Controversy over the Availability of Frege's Sense in Indian Philosophy of Language: The Case of J.L. Shaw and the Nyaya Amitabha Das Gupta.- The Radical Emptiness of Empty Terms: Saving the Buddhists from the Nyaya Fred Kroon.- The Nyaya on Identity Relation and Identity Statements Tamoghna Sarkar.- Part II Epistemology.- The Relevance of Indian Epistemology to Contemporary Western Philosophy J.L. Shaw.- Nyaya, J. L. Shaw and Epistemic Luck Payal Doctor.- The Nyaya Misplacement Theory of Illusion & the Metaphysical Problem of Perception Anand Jayprakash Vaidya.- Contents of Experience: Revisited Monima Chadha.- Part III Mathematics and Logic.- What Part of 'Not' Don't We Understand? Nicholas Griffin.- Negation (Abhava) in the Mimamsa as Real Non-Existent and a Distinctive Pramana Purushottama Bilimoria.- The Logical Structure of the Third and Fifth Definitions in the Vyaptipancaka Section of Gangesa's Tattvacintamani Toshihiro Wada.- Mathematical Existence via Necessary Properties: Some Conceptual Challenges to J.L. Shaw Rafal Urbaniak.- Application of Nyaya to Intelligent Systems G.S. Mahalakshmi.- Part IV Ethics.- Artificial Intelligences and Karma: An Evaluation of Information Technology in Light of J.L. Shaw's Concept of Moral Free Will Papia Mitra.- Conceptions and Intuitions of the Highest Good in Buddhist Philosophy: A Meta-Ethical Analysis Gordon F. Davis.