History of Indian Philosophy

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-57256-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 638 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1122 g

Reihe: Routledge History of World Philosophies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bilimoria, Purushottama

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Knowledge, Context, Concepts 1. Introduction: Textual Scriptual Issues in Philosophy Christian Coseru 2. Methodology in Indian Philosophy Nirmalaya Chakraborty 3. Pramana Epistemology and Testimony Purushottama Bilimoria 4. Buddhist Hermenutics 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 Levine 9. Contents of Consciousness: Perception Monima Chadha 10. Indian Materialism Raghunath GhoshPart Two: Philosophical Traditions, I 11. Philosophy of the Bhramanas Hermann Tull 12. Upanishads Brian Black1 3. Samkhya Mikel Burley 14. The Plurality of Samkhya Traditions Knut A. Jacobsen 15. Mimamsa Elisa Freschi1 6. Vaisesika Shashi Prabha Kumar 17. Nyaya Stephen Philips 18. The Nyaya on Inference and Fallacies Jay Shaw 19. Embodied Connectionism: Nyaya Philosophy of Mind Douglas Berger 20. Udayana and the phenomenal separateness of self Chakravarthi Ram Prasad 21. Udayana’s Theory of Extrinsic Validity in his Theistic Monograph Taisei Shida 22. Early Vedanta Andrew Nicholson 23. Advaita Vedanta of Shankara Thomas Forsthoefel 24. Avidya: the Hard Problem in Advaita Vedanta Stephen Kaplan25. Visistadvaita Vedanta Chris Bartley 26. Classical Yoga Ana Funes27. Yoga Ian Whicher Part 2: Philosophical Traditions, II 28. Indian Yogacara: an Historical Overview William Waldron 29. The Theravada Buddhist Tradition: Philosophical Foundations, Social Activism./part contents

Über Autor(innen)

Purushottama Bilimoria is Honorary Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Studies at Deakin University and Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been Chancellor’s Scholar. He has been a Fellow at Harvard and Oxford (All Souls and OCHS). He serves as Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Doctoral Faculty at the Center for Dharma Studies in the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, as well as Editor-in-Chief of two journals, Sophia and the International Journal of Dharma Studies. His research and publications are on classical Indian philosophy, emotions, aesthetics, comparative ethics, continental philosophy, comparative philosophy of religion, diaspora, bioethics, secularity and customary law.