The Vindication of the World

Malcolm Keating is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Massachusetts. He is the author of Reason in an Uncertain World: Nyāya Philosophers on Argumentation and Living Well (2024), Classical Sanskrit for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners (2024), Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy: Mukula Bhaṭṭa’s Fundamentals of the Communicative Function (2019), and editor of Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti (2020). Matthew R. Dasti is Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University. He is author of Vātsyāyana’s Commentary on the Nyāya-sūtra: A Guide (2023) and, with Stephen Phillips, coauthor of The Nyāya-sūtra: Selections with Early Commentaries (2017) and God and the World’s Arrangement (2021). He is also the co-editor of Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy (2014) and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals.

Introduction Part 1: Early and Classical Indian Philosophy 1. Following Phillips’s Lead: Fallacies, Critical Thinking, and Contemplation Matthew Dasti and Malcolm Keating 2. Seven to One: Fusing Vaiśeṣika’s Categories with Abhidharma Ontology Mark Siderits 3. Is Indian Epistemology Externalist? John Taber 4. Udayana on the Indefinability of Distinctness Nilanjan Das Part 2: Gaṅgeśa and Navya-Nyāya 5. Gaṅgeśa and the Gettier Problem Joel Feldman 6. In Search of Certification Anand Jayprakash Vaidya 7. Is Nyāya Disjunctivist? The Ontology of Illusion Jonardon Ganeri 8. The Nyāya on Truth J. L. Shaw Part 3: Advaita Vedānta 9. Metaphors for Māyā: Philosophical Illustrations in Śaṅkara’s Advaita Vedānta Neil Dalal 10. Phillips’s Points and Padmapāda’s Possible Defense Nirmalya Guha