Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics
- London Bloomsbury Publishing 2017
- 436p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Knowledge, Language, and Logic Epistemology, metaphysics, and Logic in Pracina nyaya and Buddhist philosophy ..........13 Fallacies and defeaters in Early Navya nyaya ..................33 Jayarasi and the skeptical tradition .........53 Jainism : Disambiguate the Ambiguous ...75 2. COnsciousness and the External World Proofs of Idealism in Buddhist epistemology....................103 Materialism in indian philosophy: The doctrine and Arguments ........129 Samkhya : Dualism without substances .........................153 Saiva nondualism ..........183 3. Universals and Momentary Existence A road Not taken in Indian Epistemology ....243 The role of Causality in Ratnakirti`s Arguments for Momentariness .......271 4. Self, No-Self, and Self -Knowledge Self-or no-Self ? The Atman Debate in Classical Indian Philosophy .......293 5. Concepts and Cognitions Nyaya theory of Concepts .........381 Vasubandhu`s Arguments for the Cognition ..............397