TY - BOOK AU - Gokhale, Pradeep P. TI - Lokayata/Carvaka: A Philosophical Enquiry SN - 9780199460632 U1 - 181.46 PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Humanities and Social Science N1 - Philosophy in the Indian tradition is often believed to be essentially religious in character. Even schools like Nyāya and Buddhism correlate their logic and epistemology with a transcendent religious goal. Yet, there exists a purely secular and rational exercise within the Indian philosophical traditions—the Lokāyata/Cārvāka school of philosophy. Owing to a lack of substantial literary sources, Lokāyata has received only scant attention from scholars till now ER -