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On Matsyanyaya : the state of nature in Indian thought (from Asian philosophy)In Jon D. Carlson & Russell Arben Fox (eds.), The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives, Lexington Books. 2013.
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7Managing the Transition from Patient-Centered Care to ProtocolNarrative Inquiry in Bioethics 12 (2): 111-112. 2022.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Managing the Transition from Patient-Centered Care to ProtocolDavid SlakterI learned that I would need a kidney transplant in the summer of 2015. This was not a complete surprise to me, as I had been subjected to a number of tests and invasive procedures to investigate nephritis since I was a child. I had heard similar stories of clinicians performing repeated tests on my father for similar reasons without any conclusions. Following …Read more
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An Exposition and Defence of Jayanta Bhatta’s InclusivismIn David Cheetham, Ulrich Winkler, Oddbjørn Leirvik & Judith Gruber (eds.), Interreligious Hermeneutics in Pluralistic Europe: Between Texts and People, Brill. pp. 49-55. 2011.In the Āgamaḍambara (‘Much Ado About Religion’), Bhaṭṭa Jayanta presents an argument for an inclusivist approach to the problem of religious diversity, building upon some of the arguments given in his Nyāyamañjarī. Although his arguments are restricted to consideration of a form of Hinduism particular in time and place, I argue that Jayanta’s solution to the problem of religious diversity has wide-ranging relevance and some applicability to contemporary debates in the philosophy of religion. I…Read more
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16Masaharu Mizumoto, Jonardon Ganeri, and Cliff Goddard: Ethno-Epistemology: New Directions for Global Epistemology, 2020 (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24 (1): 411-413. 2021.
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14The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.
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Reformed epistemology and the dilemma of religious pluralismSkepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 15 (1). 2004.
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374On Mātsyanyāya : The State of Nature in Indian ThoughtAsian Philosophy 21 (1): 23-34. 2011.This paper calls attention to matsyanyaya, or state of nature theories, in classical Indian thought, and their significance. The focus is on those discussions of matsyanyaya found in the law books, political treatises and the Mahabharata epic. The significance and relevance of matsyanyaya theories are shown through a comparison with early modern state of nature theories and an elaboration on the possible place of rights and dharma in matsyanyaya and the consequences of this for classical Indian …Read more
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267Though He Is One, He Bears All Those Diverse Names: A Comparative Analysis of Jayanta Bhaṭṭa’s Argument for TolerationPhilosophy East and West 65 (2): 430-443. 2015.In the Āgamadambara (“Much Ado about Religion”), Jayanta Bhatta appears to be making a case for religious toleration and pluralism. This paper considers whether Jayanta has a concept like toleration in mind at all, or at least something that we today might understand to be toleration. If he is doing neither, our understanding of the nature of tolerance and its conceptual limits may be furthered by determining exactly what he is talking about and why it looks so much like tolerance.
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