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Pointing at the Moon : Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (199 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199700707
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pointing at the MoonDDC classification:
  • 294.3361
LOC classification:
  • B162.P65 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Zen and the Unsayable -- 2. Wittgenstein and Zen Buddhism: One Practice, No Dogma -- 3. The No-Thesis View: Making Sense of Verse 29 of Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani -- 4. Why the Buddha Never Uttered a Word -- 5. Is Reductionism Expressible? -- 6. Mountains Are Just Mountains -- 7. How Do Madhyamikas Think?: Notes on Jay Garfield, Graham Priest, and Paraconsistency -- 8. A Dharmakirtian Critique of Nagarjunians -- 9. Would It Matter All That Much if There Were No Selves? -- 10. Svasamvitti as Methodological Solipsism: "Narrow Content" and the Problem of Intentionality in Buddhist Philosophy of Mind -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This volume collects essays by distinguished philosophers and scholars working at the interface of Western philosophy and Buddhist Studies. They address a broad range of topics in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics, and demonstrate the fecundity of the interaction between the Buddhist and Western philosophical and logical traditions.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Zen and the Unsayable -- 2. Wittgenstein and Zen Buddhism: One Practice, No Dogma -- 3. The No-Thesis View: Making Sense of Verse 29 of Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani -- 4. Why the Buddha Never Uttered a Word -- 5. Is Reductionism Expressible? -- 6. Mountains Are Just Mountains -- 7. How Do Madhyamikas Think?: Notes on Jay Garfield, Graham Priest, and Paraconsistency -- 8. A Dharmakirtian Critique of Nagarjunians -- 9. Would It Matter All That Much if There Were No Selves? -- 10. Svasamvitti as Methodological Solipsism: "Narrow Content" and the Problem of Intentionality in Buddhist Philosophy of Mind -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This volume collects essays by distinguished philosophers and scholars working at the interface of Western philosophy and Buddhist Studies. They address a broad range of topics in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics, and demonstrate the fecundity of the interaction between the Buddhist and Western philosophical and logical traditions.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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