ABSTRACT

The History of Indian Philosophy is a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the movements and thinkers that have shaped Indian philosophy over the last three thousand years. An outstanding team of international contributors provide fifty-eight accessible chapters, organised into three clear parts:

  • knowledge, context, concepts

  • philosophical traditions

  • engaging and encounters: modern and postmodern.

This outstanding collection is essential reading for students of Indian philosophy. It will also be of interest to those seeking to explore the lasting significance of this rich and complex philosophical tradition, and to philosophers who wish to learn about Indian philosophy through a comparative lens.

part I|109 pages

Knowledge, context, concepts

chapter 3|13 pages

Pramāṇ a epistemology:

Origins and developments 1

chapter 4|9 pages

Buddhist hermeneutics

chapter 6|12 pages

Philosophy and religion in India

chapter 7|10 pages

Indian skepticism 1

chapter 8|10 pages

Self in Indian philosophy:

Questions, answers, issues

chapter 9|8 pages

Contents of consciousness

Perception 1

chapter 10|11 pages

Indian materialism 1

part IIa|169 pages

Philosophical traditions

chapter 11|9 pages

Philosophy of the Brāhmaṇas

chapter 12|9 pages

Upaniṣads

chapter 13|10 pages

Sāṃkhya

chapter 15|9 pages

Mīmāṃsā

chapter 16|18 pages

The categories in VaiŚeṣ ika:

Known and named 1

chapter 17|9 pages

Nyāya

chapter 18|11 pages

The Nyāya on inference and fallacies

chapter 19|9 pages

Embodied connectionism:

Nyāya philosophy of mind

chapter 20|10 pages

A phenomenological reading of the Nyāya critique of the no-self view:

Udayana and the phenomenal separateness of self

chapter 22|10 pages

Early Vedānta

chapter 24|9 pages

Avidyā:

The hard problem in Advaita Vedānta

chapter 25|12 pages

Viṣiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

part IIb|89 pages

Philosophical traditions

chapter 28|10 pages

Indian Yogācāra Buddhism:

A historical perspective

chapter 29|9 pages

Early Mahāyāna

chapter 30|9 pages

Abhidharma

chapter 31|10 pages

Nāgārjuna

chapter 32|10 pages

Nāgārjuna’s early Madhyamaka:

“Deconstruction” and moderation

chapter 33|12 pages

A spectrum of metaphysical positions concerning the existence or non-existence of a self:

Nyāya, Śaiva Siddhānta, Mīmāṃsā, Jainism and Buddhism 1

chapter 34|8 pages

Svātantrika Madhyamaka metaphysics:

Bhāvaviveka’s conception of reality

chapter 35|9 pages

The two truths in Madhyamaka:

Jñānagarbha 1

chapter 36|10 pages

Vajrayāna Buddhism

part IIc|105 pages

Philosophical traditions

chapter 37|8 pages

Hermeneutics:

Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina

chapter 38|9 pages

Basic Jaina epistemology

chapter 39|9 pages

Anekāntavāda, Nayavāda, and Syādvāda:

The history and significance of the Jaina doctrines of relativity 1

chapter 41|10 pages

Tantra and Kashmiri Śaivism

chapter 42|10 pages

Looking beyond the DarŚanas:

Tantric knowledge systems and Indian philosophy

chapter 44|9 pages

Abhinavagupta

chapter 45|10 pages

Cognition and language:

Buddhist criticism of Bhartṛhari’s thesis 1

chapter 47|9 pages

Indian philosophy of music

part III|103 pages

Engaging and encounters: modern and postmodern

chapter 48|8 pages

Islamic modernism in India

chapter 49|9 pages

Gur-Sikh dharam

chapter 50|10 pages

Buddhist ethics 1

chapter 51|10 pages

Process Buddhism:

Ethics and social engagement

chapter 52|10 pages

Indian and European philosophy

chapter 53|10 pages

Modern philosophy in India

chapter 54|9 pages

Gandhi’s truth:

Debating Bilgrami 1

chapter 56|7 pages

G. R. Malkani

chapter 57|8 pages

Postmodern approaches