Vaisesika
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The research is a comparative study of the atomic theories of Kanada and Democritus. Because of their pluralistic tendencies, emphasis on causality, their materialistic account of sense knowledge, and their attempt to explain the physical... more
An overview of the "six systems" of Hindu philosophy
Not yet a critical edition, still it may be useful as it uses more manuscripts than Jambuvijayaji's editio princeps and it notes all the variant readings. I make it available to scholars as there is no real hope that I could finish it in... more
It has been generally recognized that the extremely important philosophical sūtras, most of them the oldest surviving texts of Indian philosophical schools, contain some interpolated material. In this paper the suggestion is put forward... more
"Religion 43 (2013), no. 4, pp. 487-498 (+ addendum). ""This article supplements Jens Schlieter’s discussion of the cognitive metaphor of a karmic bank-account,... more
In this article an attempt is made to detect what could have been the dialectical reasons that impelled the Cārvāka thinker Udbhaṭabhaṭṭa to revise and reformulate the classical materialistic concept of cognition. If indeed according to... more
A refutation of the fundamental idea of Vaiśeṣika philosophy, i.e., the existence of 6 different categories or padārthas, which leads to the refutation of the whole of Vaiśeṣika philosophy. The method used is Vitaṇḍā. I have provided both... more