32. What You See Is What You Get: Nyāya on Perception

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Nyāya philosophers explain how perception can bring us knowledge.

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Further Reading

• B. K. Matilal, “A Realist View Of Perception,” in P. K. Sen and R. R. Verma (eds), The Philosophy of P.F. Strawson (New Delhi: 1995), 305–26; reprinted in his Mind, Language and World (Delhi: 2001).

• B. K. Matilal, Perception: An Essay on Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge (Oxford: 1986).

• P.K. Mondal, “Some Aspects of Perception in Old Nyāya,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 10 (1982), 357–376.

• C.F. Oliver, “Perception in Early Nyāya: Nyāyabhāsya and Nyāyavārttika on Nyāyasūtra 1,1,4,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 6 (1978), 243-66.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: “Perceptual Experience and Concepts in Classical Indian Philosophy.”

A chance to perceive the absence of Ferris Bueller (note that one of the other students is named “Adamson”!).

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Episodes 18 - 42: Age of the Sutra

18. The Age of the Sutra
19. The Rise of Skepticism
20. Mimamsa-Sutra
21. Mimamsa on Knowledge
22. Freschi on Mimamsa
23. Vedanta-Sutra
24. Advaita Vedanta
25. Bhartrihari on Language
26. Clooney on Vedanta
27. Samkhya
28. Ayurvedic Medicine
29. Yoga-Sutra
30. Maas on Yoga
31. Nyaya-Sutra
32. Nyaya on Perception
33. Nyaya on Reasoning
34. Nyaya on the Mind
35. Jha and Jha on Nyaya
36. Vaisesika-Sutra
37. Vaisesika on Complexity
38. Theories of Time
39. Naturalism
40. Materialism and the Self
41. Chadha on Philosophy of Mind
42. Aesthetics of Rasa