The Empirical and the Transcendental: A Fusion of Horizons (Philosophy and the Global Context)

This volume is a collection of critical studies of Professor J. N. Mohanty's work on phenomenology and Indian philosophy. The essays were written especially for this collection by philosophers from India, Europe, the United States, and Australia. The concluding chapter of this volume contains his assessment of his own philosophical position and his response to his critics. The diversity of the topics on which Mohanty has written attests to the multidimensional character and fecundity of his work. The writings in this new collection make the multifaceted character of Mohanty's writings obvious and facilitate the sort of "comparative philosophy" which Mohanty himself has pursued so vigorously. Introduction (Bina Gupta)......Page 2 PART I: IS THE EMPIRICAL VERSUS TRANSCENDENTAL DISTINCTION SPURIOUS?......Page 37 1. Some Difficulties for Husserlian Phenomenology (Joseph Margolis)......Page 38 2. Essentialism, Phenomenology, and Historical Cognition (Tom Rockmore)......Page 47 3. The Similarities and Differences between Descriptive and Interpretative Methods in Scientific Phenomenological Psychology (Amedeo Giorgi)......Page 59 4. Hands (Donn Welton)......Page 74 5. Logic and Quantum Physics: Some Simple Reflections (Gunther Patzig)......Page 88 PART II: TRANSCENDENTAL PHENOMENOLOGY REVISITED......Page 98 6. Empirical and Transcendental Subjectivity: An Enigmatic Relation? (Christina Schues)......Page 99 7. Toward Transcendental Relativism: Reading Buddhist Non-Dualism as Phenomenology (Gereon Kopf)......Page 114 8. Heidegger and Transcendental Philosophy (David Carr)......Page 134 9. Transcendental Transitions (Rudolf A. Makkreel)......Page 150 10. How Is Transcendental Philosophy - of Mind and World - Possible? (David Woodruff Smith)......Page 163 11. Utter Unreflectiveness (Lester Embree)......Page 174 PART III: UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWING FROM THE INDIAN PERSPECTIVE......Page 178 12. Is Understanding Teachable? (Arindam Chakrabarti)......Page 179 13. J. N. Mohanty's Critique of Word as a Means of Knowing and "Authorless Tradition" (Purushottama Bilimoria)......Page 191 14. Nyaya Realism, Buddhist Critique (Mark Siderits)......Page 211 PART IV: THE POSSIBILITY OF A GLOBAL PHILOSOPHY: SOME REFLECTIONS......Page 224 15. The Advance of Indian Philosophy in the Works of J. N. Mohanty (Stephen Philips)......Page 225 16. Rationality and Tradition(s) (Eliot Deutsch)......Page 231 17. My Philosophical Position Today/Response to My Critics (J. N. Mohanty)......Page 243 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.