Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons

✍ Scribed by Mark Siderits

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Series: Ashgate World Philosophies Series
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the publication of Mark Siderits' important book in 2003, much has changed in the field of Buddhist philosophy. There has been unprecedented growth in analytic metaphysics, and a considerable amount of new work on Indian theories of the self and personal identity has emerged. Fully revised and updated, and drawing on these changes as well as on developments in the author's own thinking, Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy, second edition explores the conversation between Buddhist and Western Philosophy showing how concepts and tools drawn from one philosophical tradition can help solve problems arising in another. Siderits discusses afresh areas involved in the philosophical investigation of persons, including vagueness and its implications for personal identity, recent attempts by scholars of Buddhist philosophy to defend the attribution of an emergentist account of personhood to at least some Buddhists, and whether a distinctively Buddhist antirealism can avoid problems that beset other forms of ontological anti-foundationalism.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1 Situating Reductionism
2 Refuting the Self
3 Getting Impersonal
4 Wholes, Parts, and Emergence
5 Ironic Engagement
6 Establishing Emptiness
7 Empty Knowledge
8 The Turn of the True
9 Empty Persons
Bibliography
Index