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7The Golden Path and Multicultural Meanings of LifeIn Kevin S. Decker (ed.), Dune and Philosophy, Wiley. 2022-10-17.Leto II discusses not just the meaning of life for individuals as for ancient Earth philosophers from the Buddha and Socrates to Albert Camus and Susan Wolf, but the meaning of life for humanity itself. In God Emperor of Dune, Leto II talks with the Duncans, Moneo, and Hwi Noree not just about the meaning of life for individuals, but for humanity as a whole, across vast reaches of time. So for the Buddha, the meaning of life is to end suffering. But for Socrates the meaning of life is to examine…Read more
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19International audience.
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Mystical Experience as a Skeptical Scenario: Śrīharṣa's Skeptical Advaita in the KhaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādyaIn Ayon Maharaj (ed.), The Bloomsbury research handbook of Vedānta, Bloomsbury Academic. 2020.
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41Three Skepticisms in Cārvāka Epistemology: The Problem of Induction, Purandara’s Fallibilism, and Jayarāśi’s Skepticism about PhilosophyInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 12 (1). 2021.The classical Indian Cārvāka (“Materialist”) tradition contains three branches with regard to the means of knowledge (pramāṇas). First, the standard Cārvākas accept a single means of knowledge, perception, supporting this view with a critique of the reliability and coherence of inference (anumāna). Second, the “more educated” Cārvākas as well as Purandara endorse a form of inference limited to empirical matters. Third, radical skeptical Cārvākas like Jayarāśi attempt to undermine all accounts or…Read more
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1359Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fictional Feminist DaoismJournal of Science Fiction and Philosophy 3 1-21. 2020.It is hardly a novel claim that the work of Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) contains influences from philosophical Daoism, but I argue that this influence has yet to be fully understood. Several scholars criticize Le Guin for misrepresenting Daoist ideas as they appear in ancient Chinese philosophical texts, particularly the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi. While I have sympathy for this charge, especially as it relates to Le Guin’s translation of the Dao De Jing, I argue that it fails to understand …Read more
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847Nāgārjuna’s Scepticism about PhilosophyIn Oren Hanner (ed.), Buddhism and Scepticism: Historical, Philosophical, and Comparative Perspectives, Projektverlag. pp. 55-81. 2020.
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25Replies to Laura guerrero, rachanna Kamtekar, and Jennifer NagelComparative Philosophy 10 (2). 2019.
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18Three Pillars of Skepticism in Classical India: Nagarjuna, Jayarasi, and Sri HarsaLexington Books. 2018.This book argues that the philosophical history of India contains a tradition of skepticism about philosophy represented most clearly by three figures: Nāgārjuna, Jayarāśi, and Śrī Harṣa. Furthermore, understanding this tradition ought to be an important part of our contemporary metaphilosophical reflections on the purposes and limits of philosophy.
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28Lokāyata/Cārvāka: A Philosophical Inquiry by Pradeep P. GokhalePhilosophy East and West 68 (2): 645-648. 2018.The greatest strength of Pradeep P. Gokhale's Lokāyata/Cārvāka: A Philosophical Inquiry is its much-needed enrichment of the vocabulary for the study of the Indian Lokāyata/Cārvāka school. For too long this school has been studied in the rather limited terms of its opponents in texts such as Mādhava's Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha, which identify a single Cārvāka position advocating extreme empiricism in epistemology, materialism in metaphysics, and hedonism and irreligiousness in ethics. Gokhale establi…Read more
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79External-World Skepticism in Classical India: The Case of VasubandhuInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (3): 147-172. 2017._ Source: _Volume 7, Issue 3, pp 147 - 172 The Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu has seldom been considered in conjunction with the problem of external-world skepticism despite the fact that his text, _Twenty Verses_, presents arguments from ignorance based on dreams. In this article, an epistemological phenomenalist interpretation of Vasubandhu is supported in opposition to a metaphysical idealist interpretation. On either interpretation, Vasubandhu gives an invitation to the problem of ex…Read more
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63Nāgārjuna’s Pañcakoṭi, Agrippa’s Trilemma, and the Uses of SkepticismComparative Philosophy 7 (2): 44-66. 2016.While the contemporary problem of the criterion raises similar epistemological issues as Agrippa’s Trilemma in ancient Pyrrhonian skepticism, the consideration of such epistemological questions has served two different purposes. On one hand, there is the purely practical purpose of Pyrrhonism, in which such questions are a means to reach suspension of judgment, and on the other hand, there is the theoretical purpose of contemporary epistemologists, in which these issues raise theoretical problem…Read more
Ethan Mills
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga
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University Of Tennessee At ChattanoogaDepartment of Philosophy and ReligionAssistant Professor
University of New Mexico
PhD, 2013
APA Eastern Division
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States of America