Categorisation in Indian philosophy: thinking inside the box

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Contents: Foreword: remarks on the philosophical use of categories, Gavin Flood Introduction: the importance of 'thinking inside the box', Jessica Frazier VyAE karaa(1)a: BhAE va as the ultimate category, Eivind Kahrs NyAE ya: pramAE a(1)a (knowledge-generators) as natural kinds, Stephen Phillips SAE a(1)fkhya: the analysis of experience in classical sAE a(1)fkhya, Mikel Burley VedAE nta: metaphors for the category of existence, Jessica Frazier Early vaiA&gt ea(1)GBPika: the concept of categories in vaiA&gt ea(1)GBPika philosophy, Shashiprabha Kumar Later vaiA&gt ea(1)GBPika: the 'seven category ontology' reaffirmed, Jonardon Ganeri Madhyamaka: conventional categories in madhyamaka philosophy, Jan Westerhoff Jainism: from ontology to taxonomy in the jaina colonisation of the universe, W. J. Johnson Historical perspectives: the origin of categories in Indian philosophy, Johannes Bronkhorst The order of things: the goals and categories of categorisation in India, Jessica Frazier Bibliography Appendices Index.