Contents: Preface. I. Myth, belief and appeal to rationality: 1. What did Indian philosophers believe?/Johannes Bronkhorst. 2. Pramana, logic and belief/Claus Oetke. 3. Can there be unbiased epistemology in Indian philosophy?/Raghunath Ghosh. 4. Power and insight in Jain discourse/Peter Flugel. II. God vis-a-vis proof and belief: 5. The distinction in intellectu/in re in the ontological proof and in Bhartrhari/Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti. 6. Theism--the culmination of Nyaya logic/John Vattanky, S.J. 7. What exists for the Vaisesika?/Piotr Balcerowics. III. Logic and belief in Samkhya and Yoga: 8. Early concepts of logic in Samkhya/Shujun Motegi. 9. Valid knowledge and belief in classical Samkhya-Yoga/Philipp A. Maas. Language, grammar and belief: 10. Grammarians\' leaving logic at the door/Ashok Aklujkar. 11. Bhartrhari on Unnameable things/Hideyo Ogawa. IV. Logic and belief in interpretation and translation: 12. Major points of Vacaspati\'s disagreement with Mandana/Diwakar Acharya. 13. From the Tattva-cinta-mani by Gangesa: the Kevala-Vyatireki-prakaranam: negative only inference (Annotated translation and commentary)/Stephen H. Phillips. V. Logic, reality and belief in Buddhist tradition: 14. A hot dispute about Lukewarm air: Dignaga on Apta-vada/Horst Lasic. 15. On (Non-semantically) remembering conventions: Dharmakirti and Dharmottara on Samketa-kala/Dan Arnold. 16. Studies in Dharmakirti\'s religious philosophy: 4. The cinta-mayi Prajna/Vincent Eltschinger. 17. The \'Principle of True Nature\' (dharmata-yukti) as a justification for positive descriptions of reality in Mahayana Buddhism/Klaus-Dieter Mathes. 18. Tsong kha pa on the three times: new light on the Buddhist Theory of time/Hiroshi Nemoto. 19. The Bodhi-caryavatara and its monastic aspects: on the problem of representation/Kaoru Onishi. VI. Belief, hope and gambling: 20. Sociological and juridical aspects of dice-play in ancient India/Irma Piovano. General index.
"The present volume explores a theme which has so far rarely received the attention it legitimately deserves, although its fundamental importance to proper understanding of the true nature of Indian philosophical enquiry and intellectual heritage seems unquestionable. Whether in Indian social and historical context or throughout the history of western thought, the relation between logic, belief and philosophy have always been very complex and multifaceted.
The general theme of the enquiry presented here is adequately reflected in the title of the volume: Logic and Belief in Indian philosophy, which aptly highlights the Yukti-agama dimension. In particular, it focuses on various aspects of Indian thought, and Indian logic in particular, with special emphasis on the relationship, and tension, between rational examination and belief in Indian philosophical tradition.
The contributions are grouped in thematic sections, the titles of which are self-explanatory. Some articles probe deeply into very detailed and intricate doctrinal aspects of selected Brahmanical philosophical schools and of Jaina and Buddhist traditions, whereas others attempt synthetic conclusions as well as methodological and theoretical reflection concerning the very nature of Indian philosophy and its religious background. The reader will also find an English translation of "The chapter on the negative-only inference\' (Kevala-vyatireki-prakarana) of Gangesa\'s Tattva-cinta-mani, a ground-breaking work that revolutionized medieval Indian logic."
