Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics (eBook, ePUB)

An Outline of Indian Non-Realism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'. This is the view that an independent, external world must be assumed if the features of cognition are to be explained, but that it cannot be proved that there is such a world, independently of an appeal to cognition itself. This position is constructed against idealist denials of externality, realist arguments for an independent world and the sceptical denial of the coherence of cognition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136868979
• Artikelnr.: 40000299

Autorenporträt

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Inhaltsangabe

?a?kara: Externality
Chapter 1 ?a?kara and the Philosophical Framework of Advaita
Chapter 2 ?a?kara, Vasubandhu and the Idealist use of Dreaming
Chapter 3 ?a?kara, Dreaming and Non-Realism
V?Caspati: Determinacy
Chapter 4 V?caspati on Anirvacan?yatva
?r? Har?a: Existence
Chapter 5 Knowledge and Existence
Chapter 6 The Non-Realist Critique of Existence
Applying Non-Realism
Chapter 7 Causal Connections, Cognition and Regularity
Chapter 8 Immediacy and the Direct Theory of Perception