Ganeri: Indian Philosophy, 4-vol. set

The learned editor of this new four-volume collection from Routledge argues that its subject matter is ‘a vast—and vastly undersurveyed—body of inquiry into the most fundamental problems of philosophy. As the broader discipline of philosophy continues to evolve into a genuinely international field, "Indian Philosophy" stands for an unquantifiably precious part of the human intellectual biosphere. For those who are interested in the way in which culture influences structures of thought, for those who want to study alternative histories of ideas, and for those who are merely curious to know what some of the world’s greatest thinkers have thought about some of the most intractable and central philosophical puzzles, Indian Philosophy is a domain of unparalleled richness and importance. And in its potential for cross-fertilization with ideas from other philosophical cultures—Greek, Chinese, European, African, Arabic, and Anglophone—Indian Philosophy is a resource that any creative philosopher can and should draw upon.’ The first of the four volumes (‘Philosophical Inquiry and the Aims of Life’) collects the best scholarship on how Indians have understood the purpose and importance of philosophy; what philosophy as a discipline consists of; the relationship between the study of philosophy and the aims, arts, and ways of life; and, indeed, whether philosophical inquiry is possible. Volume II (‘Self, No Self’), meanwhile, surveys the great diversity of Indian thinking about the mind, with particular emphasis on the vibrant and dynamic work done by a new generation of scholars working at the interface between Buddhist Studies, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, and Phenomenology. Volume III (‘Critical Indian Philosophers’) focuses on the thought of the most important individual thinkers in the Indian tradition, including: Nagarjuna, Sankara, Dignaga, Dharmakirti, Patañjali, Kumarila, and Srihar?a. The final volume in the collection (‘Being and Truth’) collates canonical and cutting-edge pieces on Indian theories of being and what there is; realism and antirealism; the nature of truth and representation; and language and logic. The materials gathered here will enable users to get a grip on the remarkable range of Indian thinking about the structure of the world and its fundamental constitution, as well providing insight into fundamental Indian theories about how we reason and how we talk. With a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, this ambitious collection of major works simultaneously presents Indian philosophy as an autonomous intellectual tradition, with its own internal dynamic and approach, while also demonstrating how the richness of this tradition can have a crucial role in a newly emerging global and international discipline of philosophy, a discipline described by the collection’s editor as one ‘in which no one philosophical tradition claims priority for itself, but rather in which a diversity of traditions exchange ideas and grow through their interaction with one another’.

Volume I: Philosophical Inquiry and the Aims of Life Part 1: The Concept of Philosophy (anvik?iki) 1. Bimal Krishna Matilal, ‘On the Concept of Philosophy in India’, Philosophical Essays: Anantalal Thakur Felicitation Volume (Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1987), pp. 190–8. 2. Wilhelm Halbfass, ‘Darsana, Anvik?iki, Philosophy’, India and Europe: an Essay in Understanding (State University of New York Press, 1988), pp. 263–86. Part 2: Philosophy as the Work of Reason 3. Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, ‘Internal Criticism and Indian Rational Traditions’, in M. Krauz (ed.), Relativism: Interpretation and Confrontation (University of Notre Dame Pres, 1989), pp. 299–325. 4. Arindam Chakrabarti, ‘Rationality in Indian Philosophy’, in Eliot Deutsch and Ron Bontekoe (eds.), A Companion to World Philosophies (Blackwell Publishers, 1997), pp. 259–78. 5. Jonardon Ganeri, ‘Intellectual India: Reason, Identity, Dissent’, New Literary History, 2009, 40, 247–63. Part 3: Philosophy as Medicinal Therapy 6. Wilhelm Halbfass, ‘The Therapeutic Paradigm and the Search for Identity in Indian Philosophy’, Traditions and Reflection: Explorations in Indian Thought (State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 243–63. 7. Jonardon Ganeri, ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life: From the Buddha to Tagore’, in M. McGhee, M. Chase, and S. Clark (eds.), Philosophy as a Way of Life, Ancients and Moderns: Essays in Honour of Pierre Hadot (Blackwell Publishers, 2013), pp. 116–31. 8. Christopher Gowans, ‘Medical Analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic Thought: Tranquillity and Anger’, in Jonardon Ganeri and Clare Carlisle (eds.), Philosophy as Therapeia (Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 11–34. Part 4: Philosophy as a Search for the Self 9. Joel Brereton, ‘The Upani?ads’, in W. T. de Bary and I. Bloom (eds.), Approaches to the Asian Classics (Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. 115–35. 10. Jonardon Ganeri, ‘Hidden in the Cave: The Upani?adic Self’, The Concealed Art of the Soul (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 13–38. Part 5: Philosophical Naturalism 11. Karin C. Preisendanz and Eli Franco, ‘Indian School of Materialism’, in Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998), pp. 178–81. 12. Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, ‘Carvaka Fragments: A New Collection’, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2002, 30, 6, 597–640. 13. Jonardon Ganeri, ‘Emergentisms, Ancient and Modern’, Mind, 2011, 120, 671–703. Part 6: Commentary as Philosophy 14. Francis Clooney, ‘Binding the Text: Vedanta as Philosophy and Commentary’, in Jeffrey R. Timm (ed.), Texts in Context: Traditional Hermeneutics in South Asia (State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 47–68. 15. Norman Cutler, ‘Interpreting Tirukkura?: The Role of Commentary in the Creation of a Text’, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1992, 112, 4, 549–66. 16. Jonardon Ganeri, ‘Sanskrit Philosophical Commentary: Reading as Philosophy’, Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2008, 25, 1, 107–27. Part 7: Normative Ethics as Philosophy 17. Amartya Sen, ‘Realizations, Consequences, and Agency’, The Idea of Justice (Belknap Press, 2009), pp. 208–17. 18. Joshua Anderson, ‘Sen and the Bhagavad Gita: Lessons for a Theory of Justice’, Asian Philosophy, 2012, 22, 1, 63–74. 19. Sandeep Sreekumar, ‘An Analysis of Consequentialism and Deontology in the Normative Ethics of the Bhagavadgita’, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2012, 40, 3, 277–315. Volume II: Self, No Self Part 8: Buddhist Philosophy of Mind 20. Georges Dreyfus and Evan Thompson, ‘Asian Perspectives: Indian Theories of Mind’, in Morris Moscovitch, Evan Thompson, and Philip David Zelazo (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 89–116. 21. Christian Coseru, ‘Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2012 edition). 22. Jake Davis and Evan Thompson, ‘From the Five Agreggates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Towards a Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science’, in Steven Emmanuel (ed.), A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy (John Wiley and Sons, 2014) pp. 585–97. 23. Jonardon Ganeri, ‘Subjectivity, Selfhood, and the Use of the Word "I"’, in Dan Zahavi, Evan Thomson, and Mark Siderits (eds.), Self, No-self ? (Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 176–92. 24. Matthew MacKenzie, ‘Self-Awareness Without a Self: Buddhism and the Reflexivity of Awareness’, Asian Philosophy, 2008, 18, 3, 245–66. 25. Charles K. Fink, ‘The "Scent" of a Self: Buddhism and the First-Person Perspective’, Asian Philosophy, 2012, 22, 3, 289–306. 26. Martin Adam, ‘No Self, No Free Will, No Problem’, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 2010, 33, 1–2, 239–65. 27. Jonardon Ganeri, ‘An Irrealist Theory of Self’, Harvard Review of Philosophy, 2004, 12, 61–80. Part 9: Indian Conceptions of Self 28. Alex Watson, ‘The Self as a Dynamic Constant. Bha??a Ramaka??ha’s Middle Ground Between a Naiyayika Eternal Self-Substance and a Buddhist Stream of Consciousness-Moments’, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2014, 42, 173–93. 29. Arindam Chakrabarti, ‘Arguing from Synthesis to the Self: Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta Respond to Buddhist No-self’, in Irina Kuznetsova, Jonardon Ganeri, and C. Ram-Prasad (eds.), Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-Self (Ashgate, 2012), pp. 199–216. 30. Wolfgang Fasching, ‘"I am of the Nature of Seeing": Phenomenological Reflections on the Indian Notion of Witness-Consciousness’, in Dan Zahavi, Evan Thomson, and Mark Siderits (eds.), Self, No-self? (Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 193–216. 31. Wolfgang Fasching, ‘On the Advaitic Identification of Self and Consciousness’, in Irina Kuznetsova, Jonardon Ganeri, and C. Ram-Prasad (eds.), Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-self (Ashgate, 2012), pp. 165–80. 32. John Taber, ‘The Mima?sa Theory of Self-Recognition’, Philosophy East and West, 1990, 40, 1, 35–57. 33. John Taber, ‘Uddyotakara’s Defence of a Self’, in Irina Kuznetsova, Jonardon Ganeri, and C. Ram-Prasad (eds.), Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-self (Ashgate, 2012), pp. 97–114. 34. Jonardon Ganeri, ‘Cross-Modality and the Self’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2000, 61, 3, 639–57. Volume III: Critical Indian Philosophers Part 10: Important Thinkers 35. Ka?ada (100 CE). Anantalal Thakur, ‘Ka?ada: The Propounder of the Vaise?ika System’, Origin and Development of the Vaise?ika System’, History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Vol. 2, Pt. 4 (Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 2003), pp. 3–6. 36. Nagarjuna (150). Jan Westerhoff, ‘Nagarjuna’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 edition). 37. Gautama (150). Eli Franco and Karin Preisendanz, ‘Gautama, Ak?apada’, in Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998), pp. 859–61. 38. Patañjali (375). Edward Byrant, ‘Patañjali’, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 39. Vasubandhu (316–96). Jonathan C. Gold, ‘Vasubandhu’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2012 edition). 40. Buddhaghosa (450). Maria Heim, The Forerunner of All Things (OUP, 2013), pp. 6–15. 41. Vatsyayana (450). Joy Laine, ‘Vatsyayana’, in Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998), pp. 587–8. 42. Bhart?hari (450). Ashok Aklujkar, ‘Bhart?-hari’, in Robert Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers (Blackwell Publishing, 2001), pp. 561–5. 43. Dignaga (480–540). Richard Hayes, ‘Dignaga’, in Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998), pp. 74–6. 44. Candrakirti (600). Jay L. Garfield, ‘Candrakirti’, in Robert Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers (Blackwell Publishing, 2001), pp. 574–7. 45. Uddyotakara (630). Joy Laine, ‘Uddyotakara’, in Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998), pp. 514–6. 46. Dharmakirti (600–60). Vincent Eltschinger, ‘Dharmakirti’, Buddhist Philosophy, 2010, 3, 397–440. 47. Kumarila (600–50). Dan Arnold, ‘Kumarila’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2014 edition).