Studies in Buddhist Philosophy
Mark Siderits and Jan Westerhoff
Abstract
This book is a collection of essays by Mark Siderits on topics in Indian Buddhist philosophy. The essays are divided into six main systematic sections, dealing with realism and anti-realism, further problems in metaphysics and logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, and specific discussions of the interaction between Buddhist and classical Indian philosophy. Each of the essays is followed by a postscript Mark Siderits has written specifically for this volume. The postscripts make it possible to connect essays of the volume with each other, showing thematic interrelations, or locat ... More
This book is a collection of essays by Mark Siderits on topics in Indian Buddhist philosophy. The essays are divided into six main systematic sections, dealing with realism and anti-realism, further problems in metaphysics and logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, and specific discussions of the interaction between Buddhist and classical Indian philosophy. Each of the essays is followed by a postscript Mark Siderits has written specifically for this volume. The postscripts make it possible to connect essays of the volume with each other, showing thematic interrelations, or locating them relative to the development of Siderits’s thought. In addition, they allow Siderits to discuss which arguments or interpretations in an essay he no longer endorses. Even though the central point of all of the papers included in this collection is still accepted by Siderits, in various cases he has changed his mind about certain details. The postscripts identify these changes and discuss their motivations and further implications. Finally, they provide the opportunity of addressing the fact that for most of these essays, the discussion has moved on since the time of publication. New works have been published, new translations have come out, and additional connections have been discovered. The postscripts make it possible to acquaint the reader with the most important of these developments.
Keywords:
Mark Siderits,
Buddhist philosophy,
anti-realism,
metaphysics,
logic,
epistemology,
philosophy of language,
Classical Indian philosophy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198754862 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198754862.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Mark Siderits, author
Seoul National University
Jan Westerhoff, editor
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
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