Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy

Empty Persons

Mark Siderits (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2015 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-6610-5 (ISBN)

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Since the publication of Mark Siderits' important book in 2003, much has changed in the field of Buddhist philosophy. There has been unprecedented growth in analytic metaphysics, and a considerable amount of new work on Indian theories of the self and personal identity has emerged. Fully revised and updated, and drawing on these changes as well as on developments in the author's own thinking, Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy, second edition explores the conversation between Buddhist and Western Philosophy showing how concepts and tools drawn from one philosophical tradition can help solve problems arising in another. Siderits discusses afresh areas involved in the philosophical investigation of persons, including vagueness and its implications for personal identity, recent attempts by scholars of Buddhist philosophy to defend the attribution of an emergentist account of personhood to at least some Buddhists, and whether a distinctively Buddhist antirealism can avoid problems that beset other forms of ontological anti-foundationalism.

Mark Siderits recently retired from the Philosophy Department of Seoul National University, where he taught Asian and comparative philosophy. His research interests lie in the intersection between classical Indian philosophy on the one hand, and analytic metaphysics and philosophy of language on the other. Among his more recent publications are Buddhism As Philosophy (Ashgate/Hackett), Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons (Ashgate) and, together with ShÅryÅ« Katsura, NÄgÄrjuna’s Middle Way: MÅ«lamadhyamakakÄrikÄ (Wisdom). He has also edited several collections of work on Indian/analytic philosophy.

Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; Situating reductionism; Refuting the self; Getting impersonal; Wholes, parts and emergence; Ironic engagement; Establishing emptiness; Empty knowledge; The turn of the true; Empty persons;

Reihe/Serie	Ashgate World Philosophies Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	589 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-4724-6610-1 / 1472466101
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-6610-5 / 9781472466105
Zustand	Neuware