You might find part of the answer in the seminal role played by William of Ockham. Some are of the opinion that western and Indian philosophy started diverging from the time that William of Ockham made his contributions to philosophy.
--- On Mon, 28/3/11, manikuttyanand <[email protected]> wrote: From: manikuttyanand <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [silk] ancient Indian thought To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 28 March, 2011, 22:04 Yes. All the more reason why the contributions of all these great inventors/discoverers (Dalton, Thompson and Panini) are to be lauded without regard to national origin. As one data point, J. J. Thompson won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906 (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1906/). Panini would have won the leading prize of his day had there been institutions and institutional recognition in his time. I don't know what philosophical contributions it is that you are referring to, but generally, Indians don't figure prominently in all-time lists of influential philosophers. Would you say that this list is inaccurate? And to put the ball further in your court : what may have been the reason for the non-inclusion of, say, Sankara in this list? http://www.thoughts.com/herman_bergson/the-100-philosophers-list Anand --- In [email protected], Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@...> wrote: > > Anand Manikutty [27/03/11 16:04 -0700]: > >considered generally speculative. The ideas in mathematics and linguistics > >are, > >however, well grounded and rightfully acclaimed. > > and rightly so - but then mathematics and linguistics are much more > scientific, certainly far less abstract, than philosophy > > grounded in reality, at least. >
