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36Jin Y. Park in Conversation with Erin McCarthy, Leah Kalmanson, Douglas L. Berger, and Mark A. NathanJournal of World Philosophies 5 (2): 155-182. 2020.These essays engage Jin Y. Park’s recent translation of the work of Kim Iryŏp, a Buddhist nun and public intellectual in early twentieth-century Korea. Park’s translation of Iryŏp’s Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun was the subject of two book panels at recent conferences: the first a plenary session at the annual meeting of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and the second at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association on a group program session sponsored by the…Read more
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Religious Identities and the Contesting Civilizations of Contemporary IndiaJournal of Dharma 29 95-106. 2004.
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3Comparative Philosophy and Method: Contemporary Practices and Future Possibilities ed. by Steven Burik, Robert Smid and Ralph Weber (review)Philosophy East and West 74 (2): 1-5. 2024.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Comparative Philosophy and Method: Contemporary Practices and Future Possibilities ed. by Steven Burik, Robert Smid and Ralph WeberDouglas L. Berger (bio)Comparative Philosophy and Method: Contemporary Practices and Future Possibilities. Edited by Steven Burik, Robert Smid and Ralph Weber. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. vi + 272. Paperback $40.28, isbn 978-1-350-29704-3.The editors Steven Burik, Rober…Read more
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6Neil Young and Philosophy (edited book)Lexington Books. 2019.Neil Young and Philosophy examines the music, career, and life of Neil Young from a variety of philosophical perspectives in ethics, socio-political thought, and aesthetics. It will be of great interest both to Neil Young fans and to scholars and teachers of philosophy and culture.
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53Symposium: Does Cross-Cultural Philosophy Stand in Need of a Hermeneutic Expansion?Journal of World Philosophies 2 (1): 121-143. 2017.Does cross-cultural philosophy stand in need of a hermeneutical expansion? In engaging with this question, the symposium focuses upon methodological issues salient to cross-cultural inquiry. Douglas L. Berger lays out the ground for the debate by arguing for a methodological approach, which is able to rectify the discipline’s colonial legacies and bridge the hermeneutical distance with its objects of study. From their own perspectives, Hans-Georg Moeller, Paul Roth and A. Raghuramaraju analyze w…Read more
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11The Vivekacudamani of Sankaracarya Bhagavatpada: An Introduction and Translation (review) (review)Philosophy East and West 55 (4): 616-619. 2005.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Vivekacūḍāmaṇi of Śaṅkarācarya Bhagavatpāda: An Introduction and TranslationDouglas L. BergerThe Vivekacūḍāmaṇi of Śaṅkarācarya Bhagavatpāda: An Introduction and Translation. Translated by John Grimes. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004. Pp. xii + 292.The Vivekacūḍāmaṇi or Crown Jewel of Discrimination has for centuries been celebrated as one of the most effective prakaraṇa grantha or independent pedagogi…Read more
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19Review of Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer, by R. Raj Singh (review)Philosophy East and West 59 (1): 115-118. 2009.
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16Lessons from Intercultural Philosophy: Getting Over Reductive Comparisons and Attending to OthersEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 3 (1): 134-140. 2019.
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12Illocution, No-Theory and Practice in Nagarjuna’s SkepticismThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 24 7-13. 1998.In verse nine of the Vigrahavyavartani, Nagarjuna gives a defense of his skepticism by insisting that he makes no proposition concerning the nature of reality. B. K. Matilal has argued that this position is not an untenable one for a skeptic to hold, using as an explanatory model Searle’s distinction between a propositional and an illocutionary negation. The argument runs that Nagarjuna does not refute rival philosophical positions by simply refuting whatever positive claims those positions migh…Read more
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14Review of Die Interkulturalitätsdebatte: Leit- und Streitbegriffe / Intercultural Discourse: Key and Contested Concepts, edited by Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Gita Dharampal-Frick and Minou Friele: Frieburg: Karl Alber Verlag, 2012, ISBN: 979-3495485415, pb, 363pp (review)Sophia 52 (3): 561-564. 2013.
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11Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China. Encounters of Mind explores a crucial step in the philosophical journey of Buddhism from India to China, and what influence this step, once taken, had on Chinese thought in a broader scope. The relationship of concepts of mind, or awareness, to the constitution of personhood in Chinese traditions of reflection was to change profoundly after the Cognition School of Buddhism made its way to China during the si…Read more
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11Indian and intercultural philosophy: personhood, consciousness, and causalityBloomsbury Academic. 2021.For over twenty years Douglas Berger has advanced research and reflection on Indian philosophical traditions from both classical and cross-cultural perspectives. This volume reveals the extent of his contribution by bringing together his perspectives on these classical Indian philosophies and placing them in conversation with Confucian, Chinese Buddhist and medieval Indian Sufi traditions. Delving into debates between Nyaya and Buddhist philosophers on consciousness and identity, the nature of S…Read more
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15Nothingness in Asian Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2014.A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions--including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the Japanese Kyoto School. These traditions share the insight that in order to explain both the great mysteries and mundane facts about our experience, ideas of "nothingness" must play a primary role. This colle…Read more
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19Nothingness in Asian Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2014.A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions—including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the Japanese Kyoto School. These traditions share the insight that in order to explain both the great mysteries and mundane facts about our experience, ideas of "nothingness" must play a primary role. This collec…Read more
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Nothingness in Asian Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2014.A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about _nothingness _or _emptiness _have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions—including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the Japanese Kyoto School. These traditions share the insight that in order to explain both the great mysteries and mundane facts about our experience, ideas of "nothingness" must play a primary role. This co…Read more
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Assessing Hacker's Critique of Vedantic and Schopenhauerian EthicsSchopenhauer Jahrbuch 29-38. 2007.
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2The Veil of Maya: Schopenhauer's Theory of Falsification: The Key to Schopenhauer's Appropriation of Pre-Systematic Indian Philosophical ThoughtDissertation, Temple University. 2000.Schopenhauer, perhaps more than any other Western philosopher, has been associated with Asian, and specifically Indian philosophy. The problem in the last hundred years of commentarial literature has been assessing what his relationship to pre-systematic Indian philosophical thought was. Both European and Indian scholars have vacillated over the years from great confidence that Schopenhauer's system was inspired by and even representative of classical Indian thought to a concurrence that Schopen…Read more
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48Relational and intrinsic moral roots: A brief contrast of confucian and hindu concepts of dutyDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 7 (2): 157-163. 2008.
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85A reply to Garfield and Westerhoff on "acquiring emptiness"Philosophy East and West 61 (2): 368-372. 2011.I am most grateful to Professors Garfield and Westerhoff for their comments on my article "Acquiring Emptiness: Interpreting Nāgārjuna's MMK 24 : 18" in the January 2010 issue of Philosophy East and West. Their responses to my essay and the critiques they offer, grounded in their considerable expertise in Buddhist philosophical schools, are well argued and rooted in thorough commentarial analysis. In what follows, I attempt to respond to their critiques and concerns.There can be no doubt that th…Read more
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111Indian and Cross-Cultural Philosophy in the Works of Ramakrishna Puligandla (review)Philosophy East and West 57 (2). 2007.
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22Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gītā Commentaries by Chakravarthi Ram-PrasadPhilosophy East and West 65 (2): 626-630. 2015.
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18Review of Parimal G. Patil, Against a Hindu God: Buddhist Philosophy of Religion in India (review)Journal of Buddhist Philosophy 1 235-237. 2015.
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44In search of affinities: Knowledge and action in indian thought (review)Philosophy East and West 58 (4). 2008.None
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31Categorisation in Indian Philosophy: Thinking Inside the Box ed. by Jessica FrazierPhilosophy East and West 66 (2): 655-660. 2016.In Categorisation in Indian Philosophy: Thinking Inside the Box, Jessica Frazier has brought together an impressive array of scholars who have contributed nine essays, plus an introductory and concluding chapter, both written by her, which collectively provide a most fruitful perspective for examining classical South Asian traditions of thought. Creating categorial frameworks was certainly a prolific activity among the ancient and medieval authors of the darśanas, and indeed these authors drew h…Read more
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123Acquiring emptiness: Interpreting nāgārjuna's mmk 24:18Philosophy East and West 60 (1). 2010.A pivotal focus of exegesis of Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārïkā (MMK) for the past half century has been the attempt to decipher the text's philosophy of language, and determine how this best aids us in characterizing Madhyamaka thought as a whole. In this vein, MMK 24:18 has been judged of particular weight insofar as it purportedly insists that the concepts pratītyasamutpāda (conditioned co-arising) and śūnyatā (emptiness), both indispensable to Buddhist praxis, are themselves only "nominal" o…Read more
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18"Veil of Maya, The": Schopenhauer's System and Early Indian ThoughtState University of New York Press. 2004.
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83Did buddhism ever go east?: The westernization of buddhism in Chad Hansen's daoist historiographyPhilosophy East and West 61 (1): 38-55. 2011.The scholarly career of Professor Chad Hansen has been devoted in large measure to an elucidation of the relationship between the classical Chinese language and the structure and aims of pre-Qin philosophical thought. His “mass-noun” hypothesis of classical Chinese thought, his notion of dao 道 as “guiding discourse,” and his clarifications of the significance of Mohism are marked achievements from which all of us have benefited immensely. In the opening chapters of A Daoist Theory of Chinese Tho…Read more