Chakrabarti - Classical Indian philosophy of induction the Nyaya viewpoint

Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti is professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy and distinguished scholar in residence of the Davis and Elkins College. He has taught at University of Calcutta, University of Maine, Kutztown University, Ferrum College and University of California at Berkeley. He has held faculty research fellowships at the Australian National University, the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, the University of Pittsburgh and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of the Logic of Gotama, Definition and Induction, Classical Indian Philosophy of Mind and Introduction to Buddhism and Hinduism. He has contributed numerous articles to the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, the Encyclopedia of Hinduism and the Encyclopedia of Religion and published more than fifty papers in philosophical journals and anthologies. He is editor of the Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion.

I am first and foremost indebted to my teachers of Indian philosophy, viz., late Pt. Madhusudana Nyyacarya, late Pt. Visvabandhu Tarkatirtha, late Pt. Narmada Tarkatirtha, late Pt. Pancanana Sastri, late Gopinatha Bhattacharya, Narayana Chandra Gosvami Nyyacarya and Ashoke Kumar Gangopadhyaya. I have also benefited from discussion with David Sanford, Michael Ferejohn, John Roberts, Prabal Sen, Karl Potter and Stephen Phillips. I am grateful to President G. T. Smith of the Davis and Elkins College and Mrs. Joni Smith for moral and material support. My daughter Sukanya, a postdoctoral fellow in physics, and my son Saunak, a computer scientist and a poet, have also helped me. Last but not the least, my wife Chandana, who holds a PhD in philosophy and is a professor in her own right, has helped me in many ways.

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Classical Indian philosophy of induction : the Nyya viewpoint / Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti.