The lost age of reason: philosophy in early modern India, 1450-1700

New York: Oxford University Press (2011)
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The ancient texts are now not thought of as authorities to which one must defer, but regarded as the source of insight in the company of which one pursues the ...

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Navadvīpa

This chapter begins by describing how Navadvīpa became the intellectual focal point in the early modern world, followed by the analysis of origins of the ‘new reason’ philosophy. It examines Raghunātha Śiromaṇi's achievement and identifies the reasons why he was able to follow the via mode... see more

Inquiry

This chapter describes the movements in epistemology that prepared the ground for the emergence of the ‘new’ theory. It is only with the new epistemology of the early modern period that there came to be a full appreciation of the obligations acquired by a constructive epistemology envision... see more

Challenge From the Ritualists

This chapter focuses on Gaṇgeśa Upādhyāya's book the Gemstone fulfilling one's desire for the Truth (Tattva-cintāmaṇi), which provides the ways of gaining knowledge that are recognized by the mainstream Nyāya tradition and contains methods for pursuing inquiry, as the technique for satisfy... see more

Interventions in a New Research Programme

This chapter establishes the principal source of the uncertainties, gaps, and difficulties in Gaṅgeśa Upādhyāya's epistemology. Gaṅgeśa's use of the expression ‘a way of gaining knowledge (pramāṇa) is now an instrumental cause of true belief (pramā)’ implies that nothing other than true be... see more

New Foundations in The Metaphysics of Mathematics

This chapter deals with the metaphysics of number. It explains how the processes of theory rejection and modification are driven by perceived explanatory failure rather than by discovery of foundational incoherence, and argues that the source of structure, order, and pattern resides in the... see more

Introduction

This introductory chapter provides a background to significances of new philosophical ideas in 16th- and 17th-century India and discusses issues that constitute the essential foundations of the new philosophy, such as the possibility of systematic inquiry in the face of challenges from oth... see more

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