1st Edition

Metaphysics Indian Philosophy

Edited By Roy W. Perrett Copyright 2001

    First Published in 2001. Part of the Indian Philosophy collection of readings, this volume focuses on Metaphysics. The complement to pramdna theory is prameya theory. Wherea s th e pramdnas are the means of knowledge, the prameyas are the knowables. cognizable entities which constitute the world. With respect to the number and kinds of such entities, there was a very wide variety of opinion among classical Indian philosophers. Moreover, since according to most Indian systems knowledge of reality is at least a necessary condition for liberation , these metaphysical disputes were taken to be of practical as well as theoretical import.

    Ontological problems in ny?ya, buddhism and jainism a comparative analysis *; Ved?ntaparibh??? as systematic reconstruction; The nyay?-vai?e?ika theory of universals; Review article more things in heaven and earth; Negative Facts and Knowledge of Negative Facts *; Mereological considerations in vasubandhu's “proof of idealism” *; Causality in the Ny?ya-Vai?e?ika school; An ontology of concbete connectors 1; Dependent arising and the emptiness of emptiness: why did n?c?rjuna start with causation?; Freedom and Determinism from an Indian Perspective *; Reductionist and nonreductionist theories of persons in indian buddhist philosophy; Self-construction in buddhism; Buddhist reductionism; The M?m??s? theory of self-recognition; I Touch What I Saw; Deh?tmav?da or the body as soul; An eccentric ghost in the machine: Formal and quantitative aspects of the S?? khya-Yoga dualism; Mind/Consciousness Dualism in S??khya-Yoga Philosophy *; The Self in Advaita Ved?nta *; The Concept Of The Absolute And Its Alternative Forms

    Biography

    Series Editor- Roy W. Perrett, Massey University