Jay Shaw

Senior Lecturer
MA Calc
PhD Rice

Profile

Jaysankar Lal Shaw, senior lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, had his education at Calcutta University and received his Ph.D. at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He taught at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, at the University of Alabama, USA, and was an Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii.

Research Areas

The primary aim of his research is to integrate the classical Indian analytical philosophy, including Indian philosophy of language, logic and epistemology, with contemporary Western philosophy and to discuss some of the problems of contemporary Western philosophy from the perspective of classical Indian philosophy so that new solutions may be suggested from the Indian tradition. This involves both scholarship and creativity.

His current research projects focus on topics such as the Relevance of Indian Philosophy of Language to Contemporary Western Philosophy, Doubt, Belive, Knowledge, and the Concepts of Harmony and Freedom.

Current Teaching

Phil 314 : Contemporary Philosophy
Phil 307/407 : Theories of Existence in Western Philosophy
Phil 226/326 : Topics in Indian Philosophy
Phil 208/308 : Non-Western Philosophy
Phil 205 : Indian Philosophy

Selected Publications

Books

• ‘Knowledge, Belief and Doubt: Some Contemporary Problems and their Solutions       from the Nyaya Perspective’, Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2007.

• Causality and Its Application: Sāmkhya, Bauddha and Nyāya, Punthi Pustak, Calcutta, 2005 

• Swami Vivekananda as a Philosopher, The R. K. Mission Institute Of Culture, Calcutta, 2004.

• Some Logical Problems Concerning Existence, Punthi Pustak, Calcutta, 2003.

• The Nyaya on Meaning: A Commentary on Pandit Visvabandhu, Punthi Pustak, Calcutta, 2003.

• Cognition of Cognition:  A Commentary on Pandit Visvabandhu, The R K Mission Institute of  Culture, 1998.

• Concepts of Knowledge:  East and West, edited volume, The R K Mission Institute of Culture, 2000.

• Vedanta:  Concepts and Application, edited volume, The R K Mission Institute of Culture, 2000.

• Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective, edited by J L Shaw and B K Matilal,  D. Reidel Publishing Company, Holland, 1985.

Articles

‘Causality: Samkhya, Bauddha, and Nyaya', Journal of Indian Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Holland, June 2002, pp.213-270

'Conditions for Understanding the Meaning of a Sentence: the Nyaya and the Advaita Vedanta', Journal of Indian Philosophy, pp.273-293, June 2000

'Knowledge: Some Contemporary Problems and Their Solutions from the Nyaya Perspective', in the edited volume Concepts of Knowledge: East and West, 2000, The R.K.Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta, pp.244-261.

'Man and Freedom', Part 1, Bulletin of the R.K.Mission Institute of Culture, August 2000, pp.353-360; Part 2, Bulletin of the R.K.Mission Institute of Culture, September 2000, pp.407-414. This article has also been published in the volume Man and Freedom: A Collection of Essays, edited by S.K.Sen. Indian Academy of Philosophy, 2001, pp 67-90.

'Universal Sentences: Russell, Wittgenstein, Prior and the Nyaya', Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol 18, 1991, pp.103-119.

'Descriptions: Contemporary Philosophy and the Nyaya', Logique et Analyse, Belgium, Vol. 31, 1991, pp. 153-187.

' 'Saturated' and 'Unsaturated': Frege and the Nyaya', Synthese, 1989, pp.373-394.

'The Nyaya on Double Negation', Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1988, pp.139-154.

'Proper Names: Contemporary Philosophy and the Nyaya', Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective, edited by J L Shaw and B K Matilal, D Reidel Publishing Co, 1985, pp.327-372.

'Number: From Nyaya to Frege-Russell', Studia Logica, Poland, Vol XLI, 2/3, 1982, pp.283-291.

'Some Reflections on Kripke', Logique et Analyse, Belgium, 1980, pp.153-187.

'Subject and Predicate', Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol 4, 1976, pp.155-179.

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