Bina Gupta

Skepticism: Ancient ‘East’ and Modern ‘West’ – Part III

November 24, 2015

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Bina Gupta [Part I & II of this essay can be accessed here] In this section, I would like to draw special attention to the epistemological problem of perception versus inference, and the bearing it has on the respective metaphysical theories of Hume and Carvaka[i]. There exists a basic similarity between Hume and Carvaka in…
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Skepticism: Ancient ‘East’ and Modern ‘West’ – PART I & II

December 15, 2014

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Bina Gupta A careful examination of the Cārvāka School of ancient Indian materialism reveals a number of interesting parallels to a relatively modern school of western thought, the type of skepticism first formulated by David Hume, to mention only one example. The purpose of this paper is to examine and contrast the respective epistemologies which…
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