The Empirical and the Transcendental: A Fusion of Horizons

by Bina Gupta University of Missouri-Columbia, curator's research professor emerita, Purushottama Bilimoria (Contribution by), Arindam Chakrabarti (Contribution by), David Carr (Contribution by), Eliot Deutsch University of Hawaii (Contribution by)

Overview

This volume is a collection of critical studies of Professor J. N. Mohanty's work on phenomenology and Indian philosophy. The essays were written especially for this collection by philosophers from India, Europe, the United States, and Australia. The concluding chapter of this volume contains his assessment of his own philosophical position and his response to his critics. The diversity of the topics on which Mohanty has written attests to the multidimensional character and fecundity of his work. The writings in this new collection make the multifaceted character of Mohanty's writings obvious and facilitate the sort of 'comparative philosophy' which Mohanty himself has pursued so vigorously.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742508200
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/16/2000
Series:	Philosophy and the Global Context
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.84(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Bina Gupta is professor of philosophy and director of the South Asia Language and Area Center at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Table of Contents

Part 1 1: Is the Empirical versus Transcendental Distinction Spurious?
Chapter 2 1: Some Difficulties for Husserlian Phenomenology by Joseph Margolis
Chapter 3 2: Essentialism, Phenomenology, and Historical Cognition by Tom Rockmore
Chapter 4 3: The Similarities and Differences between Descriptive and Interpretative Methods in Scientific Phenomenological Psychology by Amedeo Giorgi
Chapter 5 4: Hands by Donn Welton
Chapter 6 5: Logic and Quantum Physics: Some Simple Reflections by
Günther Patzig
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Part 7 2: Transcendental Phenomenology Revisited
Chapter 8 6: Empirical and Transcendental Subjectivity: An Enigmatic Relation? by Christina Schües
Chapter 9 7: Toward Transcendental Relativism: Reading Buddhist Non-Dualism as Phenomenology by Gereon Kopf
Chapter 10 8: Heidegger and Transcendental Philosophy by David Carr
Chapter 11 9: Transcendental Transitions by Rudolf A. Makkreel
Chapter 12 10: How is Transcendental Philosophy — of Mind and World — Possible? by David Woodruff Smith
Chapter 13 11: Utter Unreflectiveness by Lester Embree
Part 14 3: Understanding and Knowing from the Indian Perspective
Chapter 15 12: Is Understanding Teachable? by Arindam Chakrabarti
Chapter 16 13: J.N. Mohanty's Critique of Word as a Means of Knowing and "Authorless Tradition" by Purushottama Bilimoria
Chapter 17 14: Nyaya Realism, Buddhist Critique by Mark Siderits
Part 18 4: The Possibility of Global Philosophy: Some Reflections
Chapter 19 15: The Advance of Indian Philosophy in the Works of J. N. Mohanty by Stephen Phillips
Chapter 20 16: Rationality and Tradition(s) by Eliot Deutsch
Chapter 21 17: My Philosophical Position/ Response to My Critics
by J.N. Mohanty