K. J. Shah

K. J. 'Kanti' Shah (1922–1994) was a 20th century Indian philosopher and professor at Karnataka University.

He attended Cambridge University in the latter half of the 1940s where he was taught by Ludwig Wittgenstein. His lectures notes were later compiled with those of A. C. Jackson and Peter Geach and published as Wittgenstein's Lectures on Philosophical Psychology, 1946–47. While at Cambridge he got to know the author Iris Murdoch who he discussed Wittgenstein with. Iris Murdoch mentions Kanti Shah in her Journal (no. 15, 1992–96 at the Iris Murdoch Collections, Kingston University Archives). In 1948 he travelled to County Galway in Ireland to visit Wittgenstein. Like other students of Wittgenstein, Shah reportedly picked up some of his speaking mannerisms.

His work focused on Indian philosophy, particularly the political philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, whose grandson Ramchandra Gandhi he befriended. Among his friends he also counted Ramaswamy R Iyer, who dedicated his book Towards Water Wisdom: Limits, Justice, Harmony to his memory. The book Word and Sentence; Two Perspectives: Bhartrhari and Wittgenstein, a collection of essays discussing Bhartrhari and Wittgenstein, was the product of a seminar organised by Shah on this topic. It is dedicated to his memory.

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