Anand Jayprakash Vaidya is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Comparative Philosophy at San Jose State University in California. His interests include the epistemology of intuition,...
To view a contributors bio, click Hsiang-Yun Chen Hsiang-Yun Chen is an assistant research fellow at The Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS) at Academia Sinica and works primarily...
...Jayprakash Vaidya defends Matilal’s approach from criticism by noting that “analytic” can refer to a methodology, which is quite readily found within classical Indian philosophy. Lastly, the contribution from Neil...
Post Three of Three (Post 1 / Post 2) Shaw’s Nyāya and Mou’s Mohism are contemporary theories of epistemology deriving from historical sources in classical Indian and Chinese philosophy. In...
Post Two of Three (Post 1) The contemporary engagement with Gettier’s counterexamples builds off of Gettier’s actual discussion. So, it will be useful to rehearse what was actually done in...
Post One of Three In my prior posts on philosophy of mind, and critical thinking, I have used the phrase “the inclusion problem” to refer to some of the issues...
As controversial as Shaw’s account might be, we might ask: how does it square with the debate between Frodeman & Briggle and Soames? Suppose we grant that overall, philosophy is...
So what happens when we look at the debate about philosophy’s proper home, as presented by Frodeman & Briggle and Soames, from the perspective of non-western traditions of philosophy that...
In the past 15 years, academic philosophers have engaged in a tremendous amount of navel-gazing about their discipline and its value. It is safe to say that the turn into...
The Problem For many, if not most, philosophy departments, the bread-and-butter courses they offer include the history of philosophy, ethics, and critical thinking. Most of us, at some time or...
