Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-2953-4 (ISBN)

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Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics introduces the reader to new perspectives on Indian philosophy based on philological research within the last twenty years.

Concentrating on topics such as perception, inference, skepticism, consciousness, self, mind, and universals, some of the most notable scholars working in classical Indian philosophy today examine core epistemological and metaphysical issues. Philosophical theories and arguments from a comprehensive range of Indian philosophical traditions (including the Nyaya, Mimamsa, Saiva, Vedanta, Samkhya, Jain, Buddhist, materialist and skeptical traditions, as well as some 20th century thought) are covered. The contributors to this volume approach the topics from both a philosophical and a philological perspective. They demonstrate the importance of the subject matter for an understanding of Indian thought in general and they highlight its wider philosophical significance.

By developing an appreciation of classical Indian philosophy in its own terms, set against the background of its unique assumptions and historical and cultural development, Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics is an invaluable guide to the current state of scholarship on Indian philosophy. It is a timely and much-needed reference resource, the first of its kind.

Joerg Tuske is Professor in the Philosophy Department at Salisbury University, Maryland, USA.

1. Introduction: Epistemology and Metaphysics in Indian Philosophy, Joerg Tuske
Knowledge, Language and Logic
2. Epistemology, Metaphysics and Logic in Pracina Nyaya and Buddhist Philosophy, Claus Oetke
3. Fallacies and Defeaters in Early Navya Nyaya, Stephen H. Phillips
4. Jayarasi and the Skeptical Tradition, Eli Franco
5. Jainism. Disambiguate the Ambiguous, Piotr Balcerowicz
Consciousness and the External World
6. Proofs of Idealism in Buddhist Epistemology: Dharmakirti’s Refutation of External Objects, Birgit Kellner
7. Materialism in Indian Philosophy: the Doctrine and Arguments, Pradeep P. Gokhale
8. Sakhya: Dualism without Substances, Ferenc Ruzsa
9. Saiva Nondualism, Raffaele Torella
10. An Indian Debate on Optical Reflections and Its Metaphysical Implications: Saiva Nondualism and the Mirror of Consciousness, Isabelle Ratie´
Universals and Momentary Existence
11. A Road Not Taken in Indian Epistemology, John Taber
12. The Role of Causality in Ratnakirti’s Argument for Momentariness, Joel Feldman
Self, No-Self and Self-Knowledge
13. Self or No-Self? The Buddhist-Brahmanical Atman Debate, Alex Watson
14. Where the Self and Other Meet: Early Yogacara Buddhist Approaches to Inter-Subjectivity, Roy Tzohar
15. Luminous Mind: Self-Luminosity vs. Other-Luminosity in Indian Philosophy of Mind, Matthew MacKenzie
16. Solving Kant’s Problem: K. C. Bhattacharyya on Self-Knowledge, Jay L. Garfield
Concepts and Cognitions
17. Nyaya Theory of Concepts, Keya Maitra
18. Vasubandhu’s Arguments for the Cognition of Nonexistent Objects, Zhihua Yao
List of terms
Timeline of philosophers
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.7.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	807 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-4725-2953-7 / 1472529537
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-2953-4 / 9781472529534
Zustand	Neuware