Frits Staal

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Frits Staal

Frits Staal is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Banaras Hindu University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Frits Staal's Degrees

PhD Philosophy University of Amsterdam

Why Is Frits Staal Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Johan Frederik "Frits" Staal was the department founder and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and South/Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Staal specialized in the study of Vedic ritual and mantras, and the scientific exploration of ritual and mysticism. He was also a scholar of Greek and Indian logic and philosophy and Sanskrit grammar.

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Frits Staal's Published Works

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Published Works

The Meaninglessness of Ritual (1979) (184)
Rules Without Meaning: Ritual, Mantras and the Human Sciences (1989) (144)
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science Iii (1968) (136)
Word Order in Sanskrit and Universal Grammar (1967) (64)
Sanskrit and Sanskritization (1963) (63)
A Reader on the Sanskrit Grammarians (1972) (47)
Stalking the Sacrifice (1986) (44)
Universals: Studies in Indian Logic and Linguistics (1988) (44)
Exploring Mysticism: A Methodological Essay (1975) (42)
Syntactic and Semantic Relations in Pāṇini (1969) (40)
Discovering the Vedas: Origins, Mantras, Rituals, Insights (2008) (38)
Ritual and Mantras: Rules without Meaning (1996) (37)
Indian Theories of Meaning (1995) (30)
The Fidelity of Oral Tradition and the Origins of Science (1988) (27)
The independence of rationality from literacy (1989) (25)
Artificial Languages Across Sciences and Civilizations (2006) (25)
Negation and the Law of Contradiction in Indian Thought: A Comparative Study (1962) (25)
The concept of metalanguage and its Indian background introduction (1975) (24)
Greek and Vedic Geometry (1999) (23)
Indian Metaphysics and Epistemology (1978) (21)
The sanskrit of science (1995) (20)
Sanskrit Philosophy of Language (1971) (19)
The science of ritual (1982) (17)
Euclid and Panini (1965) (16)
Nambudiri, Veda recitation (1961) (15)
The Sound of Religion (1986) (15)
The Theory of Definition in Indian Logic (1961) (14)
A Method of Linguistic Description: The Order of Consonants According to Panini (1962) (13)
The concept of paksa in Indian logic (1973) (13)
MANTRAS AND BIRD SONGS (1985) (10)
ORIENTAL IDEAS ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE (1979) (10)
Concepts of science in Europe and Asia (1995) (9)
Advaita and neoplatonism : a critical study in comparative philosophy (1961) (8)
Grammatical Method in Panini: His Treatment of Sanskrit Present Stems (1962) (8)
Some Semantic relations Between Sentoids. (1970) (7)
Contraposition in Indian Logic (1966) (7)
India and beyond : aspects of literature, meaning, ritual and thought : essays in honour of Frits Staal (1997) (7)
How a psychoactive substance becomes a ritual: The case of soma (2001) (6)
Correlations Between Language and Logic in Indian Thought (1960) (6)
THE SEARCH MEANING: MATHEMATICS, MUSIC, AND RITUAL (1984) (5)
Die Logik im Mahābhāṣya@@@Die Logik im Mahabhasya (1963) (5)
Review: Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1967) (5)
Soma and Ecstasy in the Ṛgveda * (2020) (4)
Within ritual, about ritual and beyond (1991) (4)
The Turning-Point in a Living Tradition somayāgam 2003 (2016) (4)
Artificial Languages Between Innate Faculties (2007) (4)
Is There Philosophy in Asia (1988) (4)
What is Happening in Classical Indology?—A Review Article (1982) (3)
Ritual, grammar, and the origins of science in India (1982) (3)
THE CONSTRUCTION OF FORMAL DEFINITIONS OF SUBJECT AND PREDICATE (1960) (3)
Comment: Altar of Fire (1979) (3)
Mantras between fire and water : reflections on a Balinese rite (2008) (3)
Room at the top in Sanskrit (1966) (3)
Preface: The Generosity of Formal Languages (2007) (3)
Indian Semantics, I (1966) (3)
On the Origins of Zero (2010) (3)
Pāṇini Tested by Fowler's Automaton@@@Panini Tested by Fowler's Automaton (1966) (2)
De protohistorische culturen van Voor-Indië en hun datering (The Proto-Historical Cultures of India and Their Chronology)@@@De protohistorische culturen van Voor-Indie en hun datering (The Proto-Historical Cultures of India and Their Chronology) (1961) (2)
Squares and Oblongs in the Veda (2001) (2)
Theories and facts on ritual simultaneities (2004) (2)
The Science of Language (2007) (2)
Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and Moral Philosophy (1974) (2)
Changing one's mind (1995) (1)
The Pramāṇavārttikam of Dharmakīrti. The First Chapter with the Autocommentary@@@The Pramanavarttikam of Dharmakirti. The First Chapter with the Autocommentary (1964) (1)
Two Whiffs of Air: A Critical Essay (2008) (1)
What Euclid is to Europe, Panini is to India: or are they? (NIAS Lecture No. L1-2005) (2005) (1)
Studies in Indian Grammarians I: The Method of Description Reflected in the Sivasūtras@@@Studies in Indian Grammarians I: The Method of Description Reflected in the Sivasutras (1970) (1)
Altar of fire (2007) (1)
There is No Religion There (1998) (1)
Communications to the Editor (1987) (0)
Simultaneities in Vedic ritual (2003) (0)
Sāmavedic ChantSamavedic Chant (1979) (0)
Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa . By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. xiv, 145 pp. $16.95. (1988) (0)
Nambudiri Veda Recitation: after half a century (2016) (0)
Reviewed Work: Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar. by Frits Staal (1986) (0)
Bibliography of E. W. Beth (1966) (0)
Maṇikaṇa. A Navya-Nyāya Manual@@@Manikana. A Navya-Nyaya Manual (1962) (0)
Recent Insights into the Nature of Language (1969) (0)
Cybercrime and the impact on banks' frontline service employees : a qualitative study towards the impact of cybercrime on the experiences, concerns and actions taken by Frontline Service Employees within the banking sector. (2015) (0)
REIFICATION, QUOTATION AND NOMINALIZATION (2014) (0)
Indian Theorists on Word Order in Sanskrit (1967) (0)
Review: S. S. Barlingay, A Modern Introduction to Indian Logic (1968) (0)
The Generosity of Artificial Languages (2007) (0)
Western Sanskritists on Word Order in Sanskrit (1967) (0)
Formal structures in Indian logic (1960) (0)
The Nambudiri Agnicayana of April 1975 (1976) (0)
Barlinoay S. S.. A modern introduction to indian logic. National Publishing House. Delhi 1965, xv + 238 pp. (1969) (0)
A Critique on the Vivaraṇa School . Studies in some fundamental Advaitist theories. By B. K. Sengupta. Calcutta, K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1959, 278 p., Rs. 12.00 (£1). (1960) (0)
TIIE TIIEORY OF DEFINITION IN INDIAN LOGIC (2016) (0)
Uncontained Rules of Meaning (1973) (0)
The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism. By Agehananda Bharati. Santa Barbara: Ross-Erikson, 1976. 254 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $11.95 (cloth); $4.95 (paper). (1978) (0)
A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy . By Chandradhar Sharma. pp. 415. Rider and Co., London, 1960. (1961) (0)
Review: Robert M. W. Dixon, A Logical Statement of Grammatical Theory as Contained in Halliday's `Categories of the Theory of Grammar.'; Robert M. W. Dixon, Linguistic Science and Logic (1966) (0)
Indian Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Tradition of Nyäya-Vaiśeṣika up to Gaṅgeśa (1979) (0)
Book Reviews (1978) (0)
CRAFTING TRADITION: THE LAURIE BAKER PHENOMENON (2000) (0)
Sāmavedic Chant@@@Samavedic Chant (1979) (0)
South Asia (1998) (0)

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