Description
The History of Indian Philosophy is a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the movements and thinkers that have shaped Indian philosophy over the last three thousand years. An outstanding team of international contributors provide fifty-eight accessible chapters, organised into three clear parts:
- knowledge, context, concepts
- philosophical traditions
- engaging and encounters: modern and postmodern.
This outstanding collection is essential reading for students of Indian philosophy. It will also be of interest to those seeking to explore the lasting significance of this rich and complex philosophical tradition, and to philosophers who wish to learn about Indian philosophy through a comparative lens.
Table of Contents
I Knowledge, context, concepts
1 Interpretations and interventions: Indian philosophy and the cosmopolitan approach
Christian Coseru
2 Methodology in Indian philosophy
Nirmalya N. Chakraborty, with Prabal Kumar Sen
3 Pramāna epistemology: origins and developments
Purushottama Bilimoria
4 Buddhist hermeneutics
John Powers
5 Process philosophy and phenomenology of time in Buddhism
Hari Shankar Prasad
6 Philosophy and religion in India
Jessica Frazier
7 Indian skepticism
Raghunath Ghosh
8 Self in Indian philosophy: questions, answers, issues
Michael P. Levine
9 Contents of consciousness: perception
Monima Chadha
10 Indian materialism
Raghunath Ghosh
IIa Philosophical traditions
11 Philosophy of the Brāmanas
Herman Tull
12 Upanisads
Brian Black
13 Sāmkhya
Mikel Burley
14 The diverse traditions of Sāmkhya
Knut A. Jacobsen
15 Mīmāmsā
Elisa Freschi
16 The categories in Vaisesika: known and named
ShashiPrabha Kumar
17 Nyāya
Stephen Phillips
18 The Nyāya on inference and fallacies
J. L. Shaw
19 Embodied connectionism: Nyāya philosophy of mind
Douglas L. Berger
20 A phenomenological reading of the Nyāya critique of the no- self view: Udayana and the phenomenal separateness of self
Chakravarthi RamPrasad
21 Udayana’s theory of extrinsic validity in his theistic monograph
Taisei Shida
22 Early Vedānta
Andrew J. Nicholson
23 Advaita Vedānta of Śankara
Thomas A. Forsthoefel
24 Avidyā: the hard problem in Advaita Vedānta
Stephen Kaplan
25 Visistādvaita Vedānta
Christopher Bartley
26 An overview of classical Yoga philosophy as a philosophy of embodied self- awareness
Ana Laura Funes Maderey
27 A reassessment of classical Yoga philosophy
Ian Whicher
IIb Philosophical traditions
28 Indian Yogācāra Buddhism: a historical perspective
William S. Waldron
29 Early Mahāyāna
Peter Gilks
30 Abhidharma
Joseph Walser
31 Nāgārjuna
Jay L. Garfield
32 Nāgārjuna’s early Madhyamaka: "deconstruction" and moderation
Douglas L. Berger
33 A spectrum of metaphysical positions concerning the existence or non-existence of a self: Nyāya, Śaiva Siddhānta, Mīmāmsā, Jainism and Buddhism
Alex Watson
34 Svātantrika Madhyamaka metaphysics: Bhāvaviveka’s conception of reality
Sonam Thakchoe
35 The two truths in Madhyamaka: Jñānagarbha
Sonam Thakchoe
36 Vajrayāna Buddhism
Joseph Loizzo, edited by Amy Rayner
IIc Philosophical traditions
37 Hermeneutics: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina
Arthur Dudney
38 Basic Jaina epistemology
Jayandra Soni
39 Anekāntavāda, Nayavāda, and Syādvāda: the history and significance of the Jaina doctrines of relativity
Jeffery D. Long
40 Jaina ethics and moral philosophy
Christopher Key Chapple
41 Tantra and Kashmiri Śaivism
David Peter Lawrence
42 Looking beyond the Darsanas: Tantric knowledge systems and Indian philosophy
Jason Schwartz
43 The epistemology of classical Hindu law
Donald R. Davis, Jr.
44 Abhinavagupta
Loriliai Biernacki
45 Cognition and language: Buddhist criticism of Bhartrhari’s thesis
Toshiya Unebe
46 Alamkārkasāstra as a philosophical discipline
David Mellins
47 Indian philosophy of music
William J. Jackson
III Engaging and encounters: modern and postmodern
48 Islamic modernism in India
Muhammad Kamal
49 Gur-Sikh dharam
Balbinder Singh Bhogal
50 Buddhist ethics
Damien Keown
51 Process Buddhism: ethics and social engagement
Peter Paul Kakol, edited by Amy Rayner
52 Indian and European philosophy
Thomas B. Ellis
53 Modern philosophy in India
A. Raghuramaraju
54 Gandhi’s truth: debating Bilgrami
Bindu Puri
55 Understanding Indian philosophical traditions
Anna-Pya Sjödin
56 G. R. Malkani
Sharad Deshpande
57 Postmodern approaches
Carl Olson
58 Philosophy in an age of postcolonialism
Joseph Prabhu
Index
