Comparative Philosophy and J.L. Shaw

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 Mima sa as Real Non-Existent and a Distinctive Pramana; Purushottama Bilimoria.- The Logical Structure of the Third and Fifth Definitions in the Vyaptipañcaka 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.