Contrary Thinking Selected Essays of Daya Krishna

includes index and biblioraphy

PART i Entree 1. Thinking versus Thought: Strategies for Conceptual Creativity PART ii Thinking about Thinking 2. Thinking Creatively about the Creative Act 3. Thinking with Causality about "Causality:" Reflections on a "Concept" Determining All Thought about Action and Knowledge PART in Samvada 4. Comparative Philosophy: What It Is and What It Ought To Be 5. Apoha and Samavaya in Kantian Perspective 6. Is "Tat Tvam Asi" the Same Type of Identity Statement as "The Morning Star Is the Evening Star?" PART iv Vaidalya 7. Rasa: The Bane of Indian Aesthetics 8. Substance: The Bane of Philosophy PART v Negation 9. Negation: Can Philosophy Ever Recover from It? 10. Some Problems Regarding Thinking about Abhava in the Indian Tradition PART vi Knowledge 11. Knowledge: Whose Is It, What Is It, and Why Has It to Be "True?" 12. Definition, Deception, and the Enterprise of Knowledge PART vii Truth 13. Madness, Reason, and Truth 14. Illusion, Hallucination, and the Problem of Truth 15. Reality, Imagination, and Truth PART vin Indian Philosophical Reflections 16. The "Shock-Proof;` "Evidence-Proof," "Argument-Proof" World of Sampradayika Scholarship of Indian Philosophy 17. Can the Analysis ofAdhyasa Ever Eead to an Advaitic Conclusion? PART ix Sruti 18. Is the Doctrine ofArthavada Compatible with the Idea of Sruti`? The Basic Dilemma for the Revelatory Texts of Any Tradition 19. The Mimamsaka versus the Yajiiika: Some Further Problems in the Interpretation of Sruti PART x Veda 20. Rgveda: The Mantra, the Sitkta, and the Mandala, or The Rsi, the Devata, the Chanda: The Structure of the Text and the Problems Regarding It 21. The Vedic Corpus and the Two Sutra-Texts Concerned with It: The Mimamsasutra and the Brahmasutra PART xi Transgressions 22. Did the Gopis Really Eove Krsna? Some Reflections on Bhakti as a Purusartha in the Indian Tradition 23. Reflections on an Alleged Anecdote in Sankara`s Life PART xn Free Thinking 24. Freeing Philosophy from the "Prison-House" of "I-Centricity" 25. Freedom, Reason, Ethics, and Aesthetics Envoi 26. Eros, Nomos, Logos