Indian Philosophy: A Reader

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The selection of essays in this volume aims to present Indian philosophy as an autonomous intellectual tradition, with its own internal dynamics, rhythms, techniques, problematics and approaches, and to show how the richness of this tradition has a vital role in a newly emerging global and international discipline of philosophy, one in which a diversity of traditions exchange ideas and grow through their interaction with one another. This new volume is an abridgement of the four-volume set, Indian Philosophy, published by Routledge in 2016. The selection of chapters was made in collaboration with the editors at Routledge. The purpose of this volume is to reintroduce the heritage of ‘Indian Philosophy’ to a contemporary readership by acquainting the reader with some of the core themes of Indian philosophy, such as the concept of philosophy, philosophy as a search for the self, Buddhist philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, language and logic. Introduction: some critical concepts of Indian philosophy by JONARDON GANERI I: THE CONCEPT OF PHILOSOPHY 1 On the concept of philosophy in India by BIMAL KRISHNA MATILAL 2 Rationality in Indian philosophy by ARINDAM CHAKRABARTI 3 Intellectual India: reason, identity, dissent by JONARDON GANERI II: PHILOSOPHY AS A SEARCH FOR THE SELF 4 The Upaniṣads by JOEL BRERETON 5 Hidden in the cave: the Upaniṣadic self by JONARDON GANERI III: BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 6 Indian theories of mind by GEORGES DREYFUS AND EVAN THOMPSON 7 From the five aggregates to phenomenal consciousness: towards a cross-cultural cognitive science by JAKE H. DAVIS AND EVAN THOMPSON 8 Subjectivity, selfhood and the use of the word ‘I’ by JONARDON GANERI IV: SELF 9 The self as a dynamic constant: Rāmakaṇṭha’s middle ground between a Naiyāyika eternal self-substance and a Buddhist stream of consciousness-moments by ALEX WATSON 10 Arguing from synthesis to the self: Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta respond to Buddhist No-selfism by ARINDAM CHAKRABARTI 11 ‘I am of the nature of seeing’: phenomenological reflections on the Indian notion of witness-consciousness by WOLFGANG FASCHING V: METAPHYSICS 12 The Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika theory of universals by KISOR CHAKRABARTI 13 Objectivity and proof in a classical Indian theory of number by JONARDON GANERI VI: EPISTEMOLOGY 14 A realist view of perception by BIMAL KRISHNA MATILAL 15 Nyāya perceptual theory: disjunctivism or anti-individualism? by ANAND JAYPRAKASH VAIDYA VII: LANGUAGE 16 The context principle and some Indian controversies over meaning by B. K. MATILAL AND P. K. SEN 17 Bhartṛhari’s view of sphoṭa by BIMAL KRISHNA MATILAL 18 “Ākāśa” and other names by JONARDON GANERI VIII: LOGIC 19 Semiotic conceptions in the Indian theory of argumentation by BIMAL KRISHNA MATILAL 20 Jaina logic and the philosophical basis of pluralism by JONARDON GANERI