July 2011

Probability in Ancient India: Response to Witzel

As modified and posted on H-ASIA, June 25, 2011. 
Witzel will be remembered for the amusing botch he has made. This sort of thing is an extremely common occurrence among Western scholars whose scholarship is hence unreliable, for they are so often so eager to demonstrate their own superiority by trying to score a point. (Remember that editor of a  Cambridge journal who solicited my book for review, and passed it on to an “expert” so  illiterate in philosophy that he did not even understand that the philosophy was in chp. 8!)
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By C. K. Raju, ago

Probability in Ancient India: the H-Asia debate

The debate seems to have generated wide interest, so I thought I would record it here. Here is my original post on H-Asia. The comment from Michael Witzel, of Harvard University, is given in the comments section under that.
Probability in Ancient India
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The history of Asia is somehow understood in the West in such a way as to *exclude* the history of science, and, by extension, the possibility that the Asian philosophies can ever contribute significantly to present-day science.
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By C. K. Raju, ago