Bimal Krishna Matilal

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Bimal Krishna Matilal was a renowned Indian philosopher and scholar of Indian logic and ethics who played a major role in bringing classical Indian philosophical traditions into dialogue with contemporary Western philosophy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indian philosopher
ethicist
logician
person
philosopher
academicAdvisor Daniel Ingalls NERFINISHED
areaOfInfluence analytic philosophy
comparative philosophy
countryOfCitizenship India
dateOfBirth 1935-06-01
dateOfDeath 1991-06-08
educatedAt Harvard University
University of Calcutta NERFINISHED
employer University of Oxford
University of Toronto NERFINISHED
familyName Matilal NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Indian logic
Indian philosophy
Sanskrit studies
ethics
philosophy
givenName Bimal NERFINISHED
hasAcademicDiscipline Buddhist logic NERFINISHED
Mīmāṃsā NERFINISHED
Navya-Nyāya NERFINISHED
Nyāya
influenced contemporary comparative ethics
scholarship on Indian logic in the West
knownFor bringing classical Indian philosophy into dialogue with contemporary Western philosophy
scholarship on Navya-Nyāya logic
work on Indian ethics
languageOfWorkOrName Bengali
English
Sanskrit NERFINISHED
name Bimal Krishna Matilal NERFINISHED
nationality Indian
notableWork Logic, Language and Reality: Indian Philosophy and Contemporary Issues NERFINISHED
Moral Dilemmas in the Mahābhārata NERFINISHED
Perception: An Essay on Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge NERFINISHED
The Navya-Nyāya Doctrine of Negation NERFINISHED
The Word and the World: India’s Contribution to the Study of Language NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth India NERFINISHED
Joynagar Majilpur NERFINISHED
West Bengal NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Oxford NERFINISHED
United Kingdom
positionHeld Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics
religion Hinduism
workLocation Oxford NERFINISHED
Toronto NERFINISHED

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