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The moon points back /

"The Moon Points Back investigates central areas of Buddhist philosophy--most importantly the notion of emptiness (s?unyata?)--applying the techniques of contemporary analytic philosophy and logic. This allows for novel understandings and insights of these areas, and shows how Buddhist philosop...

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Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Group Author: Tanaka, Koji; Deguchi, Yasuo; Garfield, Jay L.; Priest. Graham
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford ; New York :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Sunyata.
Buddhist philosophy.
Analysis (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Comparative.
PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist.
RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist).
PHILOSOPHY / Religious.
Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=b81fe255b42d4557b2c227b1200f59d0
Summary: "The Moon Points Back investigates central areas of Buddhist philosophy--most importantly the notion of emptiness (s?unyata?)--applying the techniques of contemporary analytic philosophy and logic. This allows for novel understandings and insights of these areas, and shows how Buddhist philosophers can engage with debates in contemporary Western philosophy"--
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi, 285 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.
ISBN: 9780190226886
9780190226879
Index Number: BQ4275
CLC: B94
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction - Deguchi Yasuo, Jay L. Garfield, Graham Priest, and Koji Tanaka -- Chapter 1: Persons Keeping Their Karma Together: The Reasons for the Pudgalavada in Early Buddhism - Amber Carpenter -- Chapter 2: On Minds, Dharmakirti and Madhyamaka - Tom J.F. Tillemans -- Chapter 3: On Being Humean about the Emptiness of Causation - Ricki Bliss -- Chapter 4: Essence and Happiness - Roy W. Perrett -- Chapter 5: The Net of Indra - Graham Priest -- Chapter 6: Buddhist Reductionism and Emptiness of Huayan Perspective - Nicholaos Jones -- Chapter 7: Constructing Logic of Emptiness: Nishitani, Jizang, and Paraconsistency - Yasuo Deguchi -- Chapter 8: Nagarjuna's Logic - Aaron Cotnoir -- Chapter 9: Conventional Truth and Intentionality in the Work of Dharmakirti - Laura Guerrero -- Chapter 10: Relativism in Buddhist Philosophy: Candrakirti on Mutual Dependence and the Basis of Convention - Elena Walsh -- Chapter 11: Two Truths and Method - Jay L. Garfield -- Contributors -- References -- Index.

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