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Moonshadows: Concentional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy

By Cowherds (Authors)

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780199751426, 9780199751433, 9780199826506, 0199826501
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2283497 bytes)
Pages
xii, 251 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
PHILOSOPHY--Epistemology;Truth--Religious aspects-

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An introduction to conventional truth / Guy Newland and Tom J.F. Tillemans -- Taking conventional truth seriously: authority regarding deceptive reality / Jay L. Garfield -- Prāsaṅgika epistemology in context / Sonam Thakchoe -- Weighing the butter, levels of explanation and falsification: models of the conventional in Tsongkhapa's account of Madhyamaka / Guy Martin Newland -- Identifying the object of negation and the status of conventional truth: why the dgag bya matters so much to Tibetan Madhyamikas / Jay L. Garfield and Sonam Thakchoe -- Can a Madhyamika be a skeptic? the case of Patsab Nyimadrak / Georges Dreyfus -- Madhyamaka and classical Greek skepticism / Georges Dreyfus and Jay L. Garfield -- The (two) truths about truth / Graham Priest, Mark Siderits and Tom J.F. Tillemans -- How far can a Madhyamika Buddhist reform conventional truth? dismal relativism, fictionalism, easy-easy truth and the alternatives / Tom J.F. Tillemans -- Is everything connected to everything else? what the gopīs know / Mark Siderits -- Carnap's pragmatism and the two truths / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka -- The merely conventional existence of the world / Jan Westerhoff -- Two truths: two models / Graham Priest -- Ethics for Madhyamikas / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka.;The Cowherds, a team of 10 scholars of Buddhist Studies, address the nature of conventional truth as it is understood in the Madhyamaka tradition deriving from Nagarjuna and Candrakarti. They combine textual scholarship with philosophical analysis to elucidate the metaphysical, epistemological and ethical consequences of this doctrine. An introduction to conventional truth / Guy Newland and Tom J.F. Tillemans -- Taking conventional truth seriously: authority regarding deceptive reality / Jay L. Garfield -- Prāsaṅgika epistemology in context / Sonam Thakchoe -- Weighing the butter, levels of explanation and falsification: models of the conventional in Tsongkhapa's account of Madhyamaka / Guy Martin Newland -- Identifying the object of negation and the status of conventional truth: why the dgag bya matters so much to Tibetan Madhyamikas / Jay L. Garfield and Sonam Thakchoe -- Can a Madhyamika be a skeptic? the case of Patsab Nyimadrak / Georges Dreyfus -- Madhyamaka and classical Greek skepticism / Georges Dreyfus and Jay L. Garfield -- The (two) truths about truth / Graham Priest, Mark Siderits and Tom J.F. Tillemans -- How far can a Madhyamika Buddhist reform conventional truth? dismal relativism, fictionalism, easy-easy truth and the alternatives / Tom J.F. Tillemans -- Is everything connected to everything else? what the gopīs know / Mark Siderits -- Carnap's pragmatism and the two truths / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka -- The merely conventional existence of the world / Jan Westerhoff -- Two truths: two models / Graham Priest -- Ethics for Madhyamikas / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka.

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