Acknowledgments ............................................... vii
Foreword
Harold Garfinkel ............................................ ix
Part I: A Postcolonial Inquiry into Tibetan Dialectics .......... l
1 Orientalism and Tibetological Praxis ......................... 3
2 Ethnomethodology and the Retrieval of Ordinary Society ...... 25
3 The Organization of Reasoning in Tibetan Philosophical
Debates ..................................................... 51
Part II: Philosophical Praxis in the Tibetan Academy ........... 79
4 Organizing the Objectivity of the Discourse: Dialectics
and Communication ........................................... 81
5 Reason as a Public Activity ................................ 107
6 Rhymes and Reason: Reason as the In Vivo, Concerted Work
of Tibetan Philosophers .................................... 121
7 Strategies in Tibetan Philosophical Debates ................ 165
Part III: A Sociology of Reasoning ............................ 235
8 Using Reasons: Capabilities of Formal Analysis ............. 237
9 Some Betrayals of Formal Analysis .......................... 273
Bibliography .................................................. 309
Index ......................................................... 319
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