Handbook of Logical Thought in India

Mihir Kumar Chakraborty

ISBN 10: 8132225767 / ISBN 13: 9788132225768

Edité par Springer India, Springer India, 2022

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This collection of articles is unique in the way it approachesestablished material on the various logical traditions in India. Instead of classifying these traditions within Schools as is the usual approach, the material here is classified into sections based on themes ranging from Fundamentals of ancient logical traditions to logic in contemporary mathematics and computer science. This collection offers not only an introduction to the key themes in different logical traditions such as Nyaya, Buddhist and Jaina, it also highlights certain unique characteristicsof these traditions as well as contribute new material in the relationship of logic to aesthetics, linguistics, Kashmir Saivism as well as the forgotten Tamil contribution to logic.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Handbook of Logical Thought in India
• Éditeur: Springer India, Springer India
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 8132225767
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9788132225768
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 160 H x 81 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 81 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 2654 grammes

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Synopsis

Considers logical thought in ancient, medieval and early modern India

Explores the relationship between logic and other disciplines in India

Discusses the contribution of Indian logicians to contemporary mathematics & computer science

Captures the uniqueness of Indian logic in detail, pointing to future developments

À propos de l?auteur

Professor Sundar Sarukkai works primarily in the philosophy of the natural and the social sciences. He is the founder of Barefoot Philosophers (www.barefootphilosophers.org) and is currently a Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is the author of Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry, Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, What is Science?, JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy and two books co-authored with Gopal Guru - The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory and more recently, Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social. His latest book is Philosophy for Children: Thinking, Reading, Writing and it is published in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali. He is the Series Editor for the Science and Technology Studies Series, Routledge. Sarukkai was a professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies until 2019 and was the Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities from 2010-2015.

Professor Mihir Kumar Chakraborty is currently Visiting Professor, School of Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University, India and Adjunct Professor, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi). He was formerly Professor at Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Calcutta, India; Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology, Shibpur, India; Visiting Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India; Guest Professor, Chongqing South West University, China; and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER, Kolkata), Kalyani, West Bengal, India. His research interests are non-standard logics, fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, rough set theory and logics of rough sets, paraconsistent logics, foundations of mathematics, mathematics and culture, logic of diagrams, functional analysis, topology and knowledge representation. He has widely toured various countries on academic visits and co-authored and edited several books in both English and Bengali. One of the founders of Calcutta Logic Circle (CLC) and Association of Logic in India (ALI), he has also been awarded fellowships by Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla; West Bengal Academy of Science and Tech. (WAST); Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR); and International Rough Set Society (IRSS).