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

The chapter looks at positions taken in the self versus no-self debate between Buddhism and the Brahmanical traditions. Section 1 identifies key issues in the debate between Nyāya and Buddhism. Section 2 introduces the Śaiva Siddhānta view, honouring its self-representation as falling in the middle ground between Nyāya and Buddhism. Section 3 argues that this self-representation is misleading, that Śaiva Siddhānta’s position is just as extreme as Nyāya’s, and then diagnoses this polarization of the debate as resulting from a shared presupposition. Section 4 identifies some better candidates for the middle ground – Bhāṭṭa Mīmāṃsā, Jainism, Personalist Buddhism (pudgalavāda) and ‘Buddhism without momentariness’ – and explicates their views by placing them on a spectrum.