Indian philosophy and philosophy of science

Recommended by: Keval Kumar

DOUBT 20

2.1 Nature of Doubt: Nyaya
2.2 Contrastive and Theory-laden Nature
of Doubt

2.3 Types of Doubt
2.4 Limits of Doubt: Nyaya and Peirce
2.5 The Nature of Scientific Doubt
2.6 Resolving Doubt and the Process of
Knowledge
3 INDIAN LOGIC
3.1 Logic in India
3.2 Nyaya
3.3 Dignaga and Buddhist Logic: Sign and
Inference
3.4 Classification of Reason: Wheel of Reason
3.5 Dharmaklrti
3.6 General Differences between Indian and
Western Logic
3.7 Summary of Themes in Indian Logic
Relevant to Philosophy of Science
3.7.1 Induction and Deduction
3.7.2 Pervasion or Invariable Concomitance
(synaptic)3.7.3 Tarka
3.7.4 Upadhis
3.7.5 Fallacies of Reason (Hetvabhasa)
3.7.6 Universal Positive and Negative Signs
3.7.7 Definitions (laksana)
3.7.8 Properties
4 LOGIC IN SCIENCE: THE WESTERN WAY
4.1 Deduction in Science
4.2 Deduction and Mathematics
4.3 Induction
4.4 Descriptive Models of Induction
4.5 Mill’s Methods
4.6 Popper and the Problem of Induction
4.7 Explanation
4.8 Inference to the Best Explanation
4.9 Scientific Explanation
4.10 Definitions
4.11 Laws and Counterfactuals
5 SCIENCE IN LOGIC: THE INDIAN WAY?
5.1 Indian Logic and Science: Trying too
Hard to Fit?
5.2 Logic as Semiotic: Peirce on Signs
5.3 Signs, Symbols and Theory
5.4 Arbitrary and Objective Signs
5.5 Science and SemioticZ
5.5.1 Signs in Experiments
5.5.2 Signs, Theory and Experiment
5.5.3 Sign-signified Relation in
Applied Mathematics
5.6 Explanation and Indian Logic
5.6.1 Explaining the General
5.6.2 Inference and Explanation
5.6.3 Inference to the Best Explanation
Mx
6. KNOWLEDGE, TRUTH AND LANGUAGE
6.1 Pramana Theory
6.2 Some Basic Themes in Western
Epistemology
6.3 Pramana and Causal Theory of Knowledge
6.4 Scientific Knowledge
6.5 Tmth in Western and Indian Philosophies
6.5.1 Truth and Action in Science and
Indian Philosophies
6.6 Knowledge and Language
6.7 Technical Language and Mathematics
6.8 Science, Effability and Bhartrhari