[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021) › c2.15 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c2.15 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c2.15 - **Language:** English ### [c2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.15) \*Vāda\* has manifested in our responses to the opinions on Indian traditions of intellectual discourse by Western philosophers. S. Radhakrishnan gave a critique of Albert Switzer’s view which he had expressed in \*Indian Thought and Its Development\* in 1939. Switzer had opined that Indian philosophy has been escapist. Radhakrishnan challenged his views in his \*Eastern Religion and Western Thought\* in the year 1939 itself. In another work he also presented a critique of Burgsan. - [Previous: c2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.14) - [Next: c2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.16) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.15) · Pramāṇa