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Against Reducing ArthâpattiIn Malcolm Keating (ed.), Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. 2020.
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7Does ‘Fusion Philosophy’ Have a Future?THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN PHILOSOPHY IN KOREA 34 329-342. 2010.
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26Truth as a Buddhist value: whatever works?Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 1-18. 2023.Buddhism is sometimes said to hold a pragmatic conception of truth, according to which a statement is true just in case it leads to the attainment of one’s goals. Since a true utterance would then be one that is likely to lead to the attainment of the interlocutor’s goals, this would show that the Buddha was not inconsistent when he said seemingly incompatible things on different occasions: to assess the truth of an utterance one must consider the context, which includes the goals and the capaci…Read more
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Against Reducing ArthâpattiIn Malcolm Keating (ed.), Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthâpatti, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. 2020.
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43How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist MetaphysicsOxford University Press. 2021."This work is designed to introduce some of the more important fruits of Indian Buddhist metaphysical theorizing to philosophers with little or no prior knowledge of classical Indian philosophy. It is widely known among non-specialists that Buddhists deny the existence of a self. Less widely appreciated among philosophers currently working in metaphysics is the fact that the Indian Buddhist tradition contains a wealth of material on a broad assortment of other issues that have also been foci of …Read more
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19Reductionism ReduxPhilosophy East and West 72 (2): 562-572. 2022.I must begin by expressing my deep appreciation to Nilanjan Das and P. K. Sen for the care they have clearly taken in their thorough examinations of Empty Persons.1 There is quite a lot going on in the work, and even after the revisions made in preparing the second edition, what I wish to say is not always as clear as it might be. The penetrating questions raised in Das’s and Sen’s reviews are just the sort that any author of a philosophical work would welcome.Before coming to these questions, t…Read more
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24The Buddha's Teachings As PhilosophyHackett Publishing Company. 2022.A shorter and less technical treatment of its subject than the author’s acclaimed _Buddhism As Philosophy_ (second edition, Hackett, 2021), Mark Siderits's _The Buddha’s Teachings As Philosophy_ explores three different systems of thought that arose from core claims of the Buddha. By detailing and critically examining key arguments made by the Buddha and developed by later Buddhist philosophers, Siderits investigates the Buddha's teachings as philosophy: a set of claims—in this case, claims abou…Read more
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43Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects, and Other SubjectsPhilosophical Review 130 (3): 467-471. 2021.
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110Buddhism As PhilosophyHackett Publishing Company. 2021.In _Buddhism As Philosophy_, Mark Siderits makes the Buddhist philosophical tradition accessible to a Western audience. Offering generous selections from the canonical Buddhist texts and providing an engaging, analytical introduction to the fundamental tenets of Buddhist thought, this revised, expanded, and updated edition builds on the success of the first edition in clarifying the basic concepts and arguments of the Buddhist philosophers.
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10Kemeth K. S. Ch’en, The Chinese Transformation of Buddhism; Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1973; 345 + ix pages; $15.00 (review)Journal of Chinese Philosophy 6 (1): 111-113. 1979.
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40Born believer?Comparative Philosophy 12 (1). 2021.A Response to Karsten Struhl’s “What Kind of an Illusion is the Illusion of Self”.
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15The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language ed. by Alessandro GraheliPhilosophy East and West 71 (1): 1-5. 2021.This volume is a noble effort to present the fruits of recent research in classical Indian philosophy of language. It is now well known that Indian philosophers had very important things to say in the areas of metaphysics and epistemology. That they also had interesting insights into the nature and uses of language is not as widely appreciated, and the present work seeks to rectify the situation. It is organized into four topical sections on, respectively, the units of speech, word meanings, sen…Read more
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267Some Sceptical Doubts about “Buddhist Scepticism”In Oren Hanner (ed.), Buddhism and Scepticism: Historical, Philosophical, and Comparative Perspectives, Projektverlag. pp. 21-35. 2020.
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62Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness: Tradition and Dialogue (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2020._Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness_ explores a variety of different approaches to the study of consciousness developed by Buddhist philosophers in classical India and China. It addresses questions that are still being investigated in cognitive science and philosophy of mind.
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31Buddhist Non-conceptualism: Building a Smart Border WallPhilosophy East and West 70 (3): 615-637. 2020.Ever since Dignāga drew his bright line between conceptually mediated inference and concept-free perception, there have been efforts to erase it and make cross-border traffic in concepts perfectly legitimate.1 If we understand conceptualization as a mental operation of abstraction that yields knowledge of general, repeatable features or commonalities and facilitates such cognitive operations as categorization, inference, and analogical thought, then we can add Kant to the list of prominent criti…Read more
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6Schopenhauer’s Encounter with Indian Thought: Representation and Will and Their Indian Parallels: By Stephen Cross: New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2014. Pp. xiv + 287. Hardcover 29.25 USD. ISBN 9788121512794 (review)Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 32 (2): 273-278. 2015.
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51The Prapañca ParadoxJournal of Indian Philosophy 47 (4): 645-659. 2019.Madhyamaka claims that while everything is in fact empty, the use of concepts invariably leads to the error known as prapañca or hypostatisation, in the form of the supposition that there are things with intrinsic nature. This may be put as the claim that all conceptualisation falsifies. But this claim is paradoxical in that its truth would entail its falsity. While Mādhyamikas have not directly addressed this problem, a solution might be found utilizing the resources of contextualist semantics.…Read more
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21Joerg Tuske , Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 436 pp., £76.50 , ISBN 978‐1‐4725‐2953‐4 (review)Dialectica 72 (3): 479-484. 2018.
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49The Nyāya-sūtra: Selections with Early Commentaries trans. by Matthew Dasti and Stephen PhillipsPhilosophy East and West 68 (3): 1-3. 2018.This work is a translation of selected sutras of the Nyāya-sūtra, together with relevant extracts from three commentaries: Nyāya-sūtra-bhāṣya of Vātsyāyana; Nyāya-vārttika of Uddyotakara; and Nyāya-vārttika-tātparya-ṭīkā of Vācaspatimiśra. The translators' introduction gives a general overview of the Nyāya school, its overall aims, and its place within classical Indian philosophy. Each of the nine chapters covers a particular topic in the Nyāya scheme: knowledge sources, philosophical method, th…Read more
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Indian Philosophy of Language. Studies in Selected IssuesTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 54 (2): 353-354. 1992.
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200Self, no self?: perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.It is time to bring the rich resources of these traditions into the contemporary debate about the nature of self. This volume is the first of its kind.
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IntroductionIn Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson & Dan Zahavi (eds.), Self, no self?: perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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4Buddhist non-self: the no owner's manualIn Shaun Gallagher (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Self, Oxford University Press. pp. 297--315. 2011.
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70Defending the Semantic Interpretation: A Reply to FerraroJournal of Indian Philosophy 41 (6): 655-664. 2013.In a recent article in this journal, Giuseppe Ferraro mounted a sustained attack on the semantic interpretation of the Madhyamaka doctrine of emptiness, an interpretation that has been championed by the authors. The present paper is their reply to that attack
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Epistemology, Meaning and Metaphysics after Matilal, special issue of Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 3, no. 2, edited by Arindam Chakrabarti (review)Philosophy East and West 48 503-513. 1998.
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121Moonshadows. Conventional Truth in Buddhist PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2011.The doctrine of the two truths - a conventional truth and an ultimate truth - is central to Buddhist metaphysics and epistemology. The two truths (or two realities), the distinction between them, and the relation between them is understood variously in different Buddhist schools; it is of special importance to the Madhyamaka school. One theory is articulated with particular force by Nagarjuna (2nd ct CE) who famously claims that the two truths are identical to one another and yet distinct. One o…Read more
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8Schopenhauer’s Encounter with Indian Thought: Representation and Will and Their Indian Parallels: By Stephen CrossJournal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 32 (2): 273-278. 2015.
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31The Importance of "My" Being Single: A Response to Jiri BenovskyPhilosophy East and West 67 (2): 553-558. 2017.Given how much the issue of the self and diachronic personal identity has been discussed in recent decades, one might wonder why something like Benovsky's pluralist-self view has not already been proposed and critically examined. It does, after all, look promising as a way to negotiate a settlement between the partisans of self and of nonself. For it gives the first party what it says it wants—ontological commitment to selves—while also granting the nonself theorists their core claim that there …Read more
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23Response to LevineJournal of World Philosophies 1 (1): 128-130. 2016.In this short reply to Levine's critique, I defend the enterprise of 'fusion philosophy.' I agree that the sort of careful scholarly examination of Asian philosophical traditions that is often done under the banner of 'comparative philosophy' is of great importance. But it is a separate question whether those traditions have resources that would help us solve philosophical problems of current interest. This is the question fusion philosophy tries to answer.
Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, Korea (Republic of)
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Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
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