Epistemology of Perception: Gangesa’s Tattvacintamani

Translated by Stephen H. Phillips and N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya with Arindam Chakrabarti

The Tattva-cinta-mani, or Jewel of Reflection on the Truth (About Epistemology), by the great fourteenth-century Indian logician Gangesa Upadhyaya solidified the ''New’'(navya) phase of the ancient Indian Nyaya school of epistemology and metaphysics. The present work is a translation of The Perception Chapter (pratyaksa-khanda) of this foundational text. The authors'introduction and running commentary to the translation provide essential theoretical and historical background, contextualization, analysis, and comparison of Nyaya and Western traditions. Includes a detailed glossary and index.

Related Subjects

• Asian Religion
• Asian Studies

Series

• Treasury of the Indic Sciences (AIBS)

About the Author

Stephen H. Phillips is a professor of philosophy and Asian studies at the University of Texas at Austin. N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya is the former vice chancellor of Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati. Arindam Chakrabarti is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii.

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