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Wilfrid Sellars and Buddhist philosophy: freedom from foundations

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in American philosophyPublication details: Routledge 2018 New YorkDescription: xiv, 254 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780367112097
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 181.043 W4
Summary: This book aims to address the relevance of Wilfrid Sellars’ philosophy to understanding topics in Buddhist philosophy. While contemporary scholars of Buddhism often take Sellars as a touchstone for philosophical analysis, and while many take Sellars’ corpus as their entrée into current philosophical discourse, fewer contemporary philosophers have crossed the bridge in the other direction, using Sellarsian ideas as a way of entering into Buddhist philosophy. The essays in this volume, written by both philosophers and Buddhist Studies scholars, are divided into two sections organized around two of Sellars’ essays that have been particularly influential in Buddhist Studies: "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man" and "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind." The chapters in Part I generally address questions concerning the two truths, while those in Part II concern issues in epistemology and philosophy of mind. The volume will be of interest to Sellars scholars, to scholars interested in the contemporary interaction of Buddhist philosophy and Western philosophy, and scholars of Buddhist Studies. https://www.routledge.com/Wilfrid-Sellars-and-Buddhist-Philosophy-Freedom-from-Foundations/Garfield/p/book/9780367112097
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Two Images and Two Truths
Chapter 1: The World in which Everything is the Self: The Philosophy of the Original Image and Pan-Selfism Naozumi Mitani
Chapter 2: Two Tables, Images and Truths
Chapter 3: Is there an Ideal Scientific Image? Sellars and Dharmakīrti on Levels of Reality
Chapter 4: Sellars and the Stereoscopic Vision of Madhyamaka
Chapter 5: Deflating the Two Images and the Two Truths: Bons baisers du Tibet
Chapter 6: "The Ambience of Principles": Sellarsian Community and Ethical Intent
Part II: The Myth of the Given and Buddhist Philosophy of Mind
Chapter 7: Givenness and Primal Confusion
Chapter 8: Givenness as a Corrollary to Nonconceptual Awareness: Thinking about Thought In Buddhist Philosophy
Chapter 9: Dignāga and Sellars: Through the Lens of Privileged Access
Chapter 10: Who’s Afraid of Nonconceptuality? Rehabilitating Dignāga’s Distinction Between Perception and Thought
Chapter 11: Knowing How to See the Good: Vipaśyanā in Kamalaśīla’s The Process of Mediation
Chapter 12: Mr. Jones and the Surpluses of Reality
References
Index

This book aims to address the relevance of Wilfrid Sellars’ philosophy to understanding topics in Buddhist philosophy. While contemporary scholars of Buddhism often take Sellars as a touchstone for philosophical analysis, and while many take Sellars’ corpus as their entrée into current philosophical discourse, fewer contemporary philosophers have crossed the bridge in the other direction, using Sellarsian ideas as a way of entering into Buddhist philosophy. The essays in this volume, written by both philosophers and Buddhist Studies scholars, are divided into two sections organized around two of Sellars’ essays that have been particularly influential in Buddhist Studies: "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man" and "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind." The chapters in Part I generally address questions concerning the two truths, while those in Part II concern issues in epistemology and philosophy of mind. The volume will be of interest to Sellars scholars, to scholars interested in the contemporary interaction of Buddhist philosophy and Western philosophy, and scholars of Buddhist Studies.

https://www.routledge.com/Wilfrid-Sellars-and-Buddhist-Philosophy-Freedom-from-Foundations/Garfield/p/book/9780367112097

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