Mark Siderits

Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy

Empty Persons

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fully revised and updated, and drawing on developments in the author's own thinking, Siderits's 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 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781472466105
• ISBN-10: 1472466101
• Artikelnr.: 43918258

Autorenporträt

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 ShÅ?ryÅ' Katsura, NÄ?gÄ?rjuna's Middle Way: MÅ'lamadhyamakakÄ?rikÄ? (Wisdom). He has also edited several collections of work on Indian/analytic philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

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