The Empirical and the Transcendental A Fusion of Horizons

by Gupta, Bina; Bilimoria, Purushottama; Chakrabarti, Arindam; Carr, David; Deutsch, Eliot; Embree, Lester; Giorgi, Amedeo; Kopf, Gereon; Makkreel, Rudolph A.; Margolis, Joseph; Mohanty, J N.; Patzig, Günther; Philips, Stephen; Rockmore, Tom; Schües, Christi

• ISBN13: 9780742508200
• ISBN10: 074250820X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this work, a distinguished international group of philosophers offers critical assessments of eminent philosopher J. N. Mohanty's work on phenomenology and Indian philosophy. The concluding chapter by Mohanty responds to the critics and contains his assessment of his own philosophical position.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(38)
Bina Gupta
Part 1: Is the Empirical versus Transcendental Distinction Spurious?
Some Difficulties for Husserlian Phenomenology	39	(10)
Joseph Margolis
Essentialism, Phenomenology, and Historical Cognition	49	(12)
Tom Rockmore
The Similarities and Differences between Descriptive and Interpretative Methods in Scientific Phenomenological Psychology	61	(16)
Amedeo Giorgi
Hands	77	(14)
Donn Welton
Logic and Quantum Physics: Some Simple Reflections	91	(12)
Gunther Patzig
Part 2: Transcendental Phenomenology Revisited
Empirical and Transcendental Subjectivity: An Enigmatic Relation?	103	(16)
Christina Schues
Toward Transcendental Relativism: Reading Buddhist Non-Dualism as Phenomenology	119	(20)
Gereon Kopf
Heidegger and Transcendental Philosophy	139	(16)
David Carr
Transcendental Transitions	155	(14)
Rudolf A. Makkreel
How Is Transcendental Philosophy---of Mind and World---Possible?	169	(12)
David Woodruff Smith
Utter Unreflectiveness	181	(6)
Lester Embree
Part 3: Understanding and Knowing from the Indian Perspective
Is Understanding Teachable?	187	(12)
Arindam Chakrabarti
J. N. Mohanty's Critique of Word as a Means of Knowing and ``Authorless Tradition''	199	(20)
Purushottama Bilimoria
Nyaya Realism, Buddhist Critique	219	(16)
Mark Siderits
Part 4: The Possibility of a Global Philosophy: Some Reflections
The Advance of Indian Philosophy in the Works of J. N. Mohanty	235	(6)
Stephen Phillips
Rationality and Tradition(s)	241	(12)
Eliot Deutsch
My Philosophical Position/Response to My Critics	253	(28)
J. N. Mohanty
About the Contributors	281