Tushar K. Sarkar

Tushar K. Sarkar, a Premchand-Roychand Scholar of the U of Calcutta. He obtained his Ph.D.’s from the University of Calcutta, India, and also from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Former Professor at the Centre of Advanced Studies, Jadavpur University, India; and an Adjunct Visiting Professor (1999-2006), at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Professor Sarkar was the Director (1983-84) of a premier Research Institute [Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR)]. He was the Founder-Editor of the Journal of ICPR. He is also the Founder-Coordinator of the School of Cognitive Science at the Jadavpur University. Main Areas of his Research interest are: Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Logic and Jaina Philosophy. The author is well-published in India and abroad.

 

Issue: 12:1/2 (The forty fifth issue)

This paper presents an integralist approach to Jaina logic. This is built around an analysis of the pivotal notion of antarvyāpti in Jaina logic. It is shown in this connection why antarvyāpti needs to be considered the ‘Core Perspective/Problem’ of Jaina logic. Next, it is shown how all the salient features of Jaina logic (as viewed from its language-oriented perspective and the epistemic perspective respectively) stand intimately related to the so-called core perspective. In the remaining sections of the paper topics like relationship of the core perspective i) to various non-standard systems of logic [DL, FL, NMR etc.,], ii) to the four pillars and to the eight MPC’s of Jaina philosophy, iii) to some bluntly unimaginative ways of looking at Jaina logic [e.g., Ducko-Rabbitism], iv) to the scheme of classification of propositions in Jaina logic, v) to the resulting conceptual economies related to methodology, and especially to a unified theory of Hetvābhāsa and, finally, vi) to a re-assessment of Frege-Husserl discord in the light of the significance of Jñānātmakatā vs Vākyātmakatā in Jaina logic, etc., have been discussed.