Epistemology of Perception: Gangesa's Tattvacintamani

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.

The present work is a translation of The Perception Chapter of Jewel of Reflection on the Truth, a foundational text by the great fourteenth-century Indian logician Gangesa Upadhyaya. 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.

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.