ABSTRACT

The selection of essays in this volume aims to present Indian philosophy as an autonomous intellectual tradition, with its own internal dynamics, rhythms, techniques, problematics and approaches, and to show how the richness of this tradition has a vital role in a newly emerging global and international discipline of philosophy, one in which a diversity of traditions exchange ideas and grow through their interaction with one another.

This new volume is an abridgement of the four-volume set, Indian Philosophy, published by Routledge in 2016. The selection of chapters was made in collaboration with the editors at Routledge. The purpose of this volume is to reintroduce the heritage of ‘Indian Philosophy’ to a contemporary readership by acquainting the reader with some of the core themes of Indian philosophy, such as the concept of philosophy, philosophy as a search for the self, Buddhist philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, language and logic.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

Some critical concepts of Indian philosophy

part I|46 pages

The concept of philosophy

chapter Chapter 1|12 pages

On the concept of philosophy in India

chapter Chapter 2|19 pages

Rationality in Indian philosophy

chapter Chapter 3|14 pages

Intellectual India

Reason, identity, dissent

part II|14 pages

Philosophy as a search for the self

chapter Chapter 4|14 pages

The Upaniṣads

chapter Chapter 5|20 pages

Hidden in the cave

The Upaniṣadic self

part III|31 pages

Buddhist philosophy of mind

chapter Chapter 6|31 pages

Indian theories of mind

chapter Chapter 7|13 pages

From the five aggregates to phenomenal consciousness

Towards a cross-cultural cognitive science

part IV|23 pages

Self

chapter Chapter 9|23 pages

The self as a dynamic constant

Rāmakaṇṭha’s middle ground between a Naiyāyika eternal self-substance and a Buddhist stream of consciousness-moments

chapter Chapter 10|16 pages

Arguing from synthesis to the self

Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta respond to Buddhist No-selfism

chapter Chapter 11|18 pages

‘I am of the nature of seeing’

Phenomenological reflections on the Indian notion of witness-consciousness

part V|17 pages

Metaphysics

part VI|16 pages

Epistemology

chapter chapter 14|16 pages

A realist view of perception

chapter Chapter 15|23 pages

Nyāya perceptual theory

Disjunctivism or anti-individualism?

part VII|23 pages

Language

part VIII|11 pages

Logic