Professor Shaw holds an MA from Calcutta University and PhD from Rice University, and has taught at Victoria University of Wellington, Calcutta University, Jadavpur University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Hawaii. He is the author of Knowledge, Belief and Doubt: Some Contemporary Problems and their Solutions from the Nyaya Perspective, Causality and Its Application: Samkhya, Bauddha, and Nyaya, and Some Logical Problems Concerning Existence, in addition to a number of other books and academic papers.