JAINA LOGIC

15th Jaina Studies Workshop at SOAS

 

The 13th Annual Jain Lecture

Thursday, 21st March 2013

18.00-19.30 SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

 

Piotr Balcerowicz, University of Warsaw (Poland)

Jaina Logic and Epistemology. Is This How it All Began?

 

19.30 Reception Brunei Gallery Suite

 

Workshop

Friday, 22nd March 2011, SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

 

9.00     Tea and Coffee

 

First Session: Jain perspectivism

 

9.15     Johannes Bronkhorst, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

Anekāntavāda, the Central Philosophy of Ājīvikism?

 

9.45     Masahiro Ueda, Kyoto University (Japan)

Nikṣepa in Akalaṅka’s Works

 

10.15   Peter Flügel, SOAS

Prolegomena to a Phenomenology of Jaina Time-Consciousness

 

10.45  Tea & Coffee

 

Second Session: Jain theory of pramāṇa

 

11.15   Dharmchand Jain, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur (India)

An Appraisal of Jaina Epistemology and Logic

 

11.45   Olle Qvarnström, University of Lund (Sweden)

Haribhadrasūri on Sāṃkhya: Jain Criticism of Sāṃkhya Epistemology

 

 

 

12.15   Marie-Hélène Gorisse, University of Ghent (Belgium)

Jain Theory of Inference in the Parīkṣāmukham

 

12.45   Group Photo

 

13.00   Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite

 

Third Session: Jain theory of nayas

 

14.00   Anne Clavel, University of Lyon (France)

Arthanayas and Śabdanayas: A Structural Analysis

 

14.30   Shahid Rahman, Université de Lille (France)

On Kinds, Jain View-Points and the Constructions of their Predicates: Remarks on a Theory of Content

 

15.00   Tea & Coffee

 

Fourth Session: Jain theory of saptabhaṅgī

 

15.30   Fujinaga, Shin, Miyakonojo (Japan)

Origin and Value of Saptabhaṅgī

 

16.00   Fabien Schang, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France)

A One-valued Logic for Non-One-Sidedness

 

16.30   Brief Break

 

Fifth Session: Oher lights on Jain epistemology

 

16.40   Jayandra Soni, Innsbruck (Austria)

Prabhācandra’s Status in and Contribution to the History of Jaina Philosophical

Speculation

 

17.10    Himal Trikha, University of Vienna (Austria)

Kathañcit and other Key Terms of Jain Perspectivism in Vidyānandin's Satyaśāsanaparīkṣā

 

17.40   Andrew More, Yale University (USA)

The Logic of Legitimation of Jain Lay Life in Sūyagaḍaṃga 2.2 and the Uvavāiya

 

18.10   Final Remarks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Dr Peter Flügel
Chair, Centre of Jaina Studies
Department of the Study of Religions
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG

Tel.: (+44-20) 7898 4776
E-mail: pf8@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies