Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy

Empty Persons
2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4724-6610-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Ashgate World Philosophies Series

Since the publication of Mark Siderits' important book in 2003, much has changed in the field of Buddhist philosophy. There has been unprecedented growth in analytic metaphysics, and a considerable amount of new work on Indian theories of the self and personal identity has emerged. Fully revised and updated, and drawing on these changes as well as on developments in the author's own thinking, Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy, second edition explores the conversation between Buddhist and Western Philosophy showing how concepts and tools drawn from one philosophical tradition can help solve problems arising in another. Siderits discusses afresh areas involved in the philosophical investigation of persons, including vagueness and its implications for personal identity, recent attempts by scholars of Buddhist philosophy to defend the attribution of an emergentist account of personhood to at least some Buddhists, and whether a distinctively Buddhist antirealism can avoid problems that beset other forms of ontological anti-foundationalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siderits, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; Situating reductionism; Refuting the self; Getting impersonal; Wholes, parts and emergence; Ironic engagement; Establishing emptiness; Empty knowledge; The turn of the true; Empty persons;

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Siderits recently retired from the Philosophy Department of Seoul National University, where he taught Asian and comparative philosophy. His research interests lie in the intersection between classical Indian philosophy on the one hand, and analytic metaphysics and philosophy of language on the other. Among his more recent publications are Buddhism As Philosophy (Ashgate/Hackett), Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons (Ashgate) and, together with ShÅryÅ' Katsura, NÄgÄrjuna’s Middle Way: MÅ'lamadhyamakakÄrikÄ (Wisdom). He has also edited several collections of work on Indian/analytic philosophy.