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Wilfrid Sellars and Buddhist Philosophy: Freedom from Foundations book cover

1st Edition

Wilfrid Sellars and Buddhist Philosophy Freedom from Foundations

Edited By Jay L. Garfield Copyright 2019
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge
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The aim of this book is 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... Read more

Introduction Jay L. Garfield



Part I: Two Images and Two Truths



1. The World in which Everything is the Self: The Philosophy of the Original Image and Pan-Selfism Naozumi Mitani



2. Two Tables, Images and Truths Monima Chadha



3. Is there an Ideal Scientific Image? Sellars and Dharmakīrti on Levels of Reality Catherine Prueitt



4. Sellars and the Stereoscopic Vision of Madhyamaka Douglas Duckworth



5. Deflating the Two Images and the Two Truths: Bons baisers du Tibet Tom Tillemans



6. "The Ambience of Principles": Sellarsian Community and Ethical Intent Sheridan Hough



Part II: The Myth of the Given and Buddhist Philosophy of Mind



7. Givenness and Primal Confusion Jay L. Garfield



8. Givenness as a Corrollary to Nonconceptual Awareness: Thinking about Thought In Buddhist Philosophy Dan Arnold



9. Dignāga and Sellars: Through the Lens of Privileged Access Keya Maitra



10. Who’s Afraid of Nonconceptuality? Rehabilitating Dignāga’s Distinction Between Perception and Thought Sonam Kachru



11. Knowing How to See the Good: Vipaśyanā in Kamalaśīla’s The Process of Mediation Karl Schmid



12. Mr. Jones and the Surpluses of Reality Thomas Doctor

Biography

Jay L. Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Buddhist Studies and director of the Buddhist Studies and Logic programs at Smith College. He is also Visiting Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies. His most recent books are The Concealed Influence of Custom: Hume’s Treatise from the Inside Out (2018); The Essential Jewel of Holy Practice (with Emily McRae, 2017); Minds Without Fear: Philosophy in the Indian Renaissance (with Nalini Bhushan, 2017); Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to Philosophy (2015); and Dignāga’s Investigation of the Percept: A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet (with Duckworth et al., 2015).

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