Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty PersonsFully revised and updated, and drawing on developments in the author's own thinking, Siderits's 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 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. |
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Abhidharma analysis antirealism argument assertion atoms baseball belief Buddhist antirealism Buddhist antirealist Buddhist Reductionism Buddhist Reductionist Candrakīrti causal causal connections causal series Chapter chariot concepts connectedness Consequentialist context contextualist convenient designator conventional truth conventionally true covalent bond Dharmakīrti diachronic discussion distinct egoistic concern Eliminativism eliminativist emergentism epistemic existence explain fact false formulation foundationalism future given hold hypostatization impersonal Indian instance intrinsic nature involved irreflexivity likewise Madhyamaka mahābhūta Mahāyāna means of knowledge mental events mereological nihilism metaphysical metaphysical nihilism mind-independent molecules moral Nāgārjuna Nāgasena Non-Reductionism notion Nyāya object occur one’s ontological pain Parfit particular perception personal identity personhood possible prapańca projects properties psychological psychophysical elements Pudgalavādin question realist reason Reductionist claims requires response result scepticism seems self-revision semantic sense Siderits sort stance statement strategy suffering supervene Suppose theory things with intrinsic thought truthmakers ultimate truth ultimately real entities Vasubandhu Yogācāra