List of Abbreviations ......................................... vii
Introduction .................................................... 1
Jan Westerhoff
1 Madhyamaka and Anti-realism ................................. 13
1.1 Nāgārjuna as Anti-realist .............................. 13
1.2 Thinking on Empty: Madhyamaka Anti-realism and Canons
of Rationality ......................................... 24
1.3 On the Soteriological Significance of Emptiness ........ 38
1.4 A Note on the Early Buddhist Theory of Truth ........... 52
2 Logical and Metaphysical Problems ........................... 62
2.1 Perceiving Particulars: A Buddhist Defence ............. 62
2.2 Do Persons Supervene on Skandhas? ...................... 77
2.3 Causation and Emptiness in Early Madhyamaka ............ 92
2.4 Contradiction in Buddhist Argumentation ............... 114
2.5 Deductive, Inductive, Both, or Neither? ............... 120
3 Philosophy of Language ..................................... 138
3.1 Buddhist Nominalism and Desert Ornithology ............ 138
3.2 Apohavāda, Nominalism, and Resemblance Theories ....... 152
3.3 The Sense-Reference Distinction in Indian Philosophy
of Language ........................................... 160
4 Epistemology ............................................... 181
4.1 The Madhyamaka Critique of Epistemology I ............. 181
4.2 The Madhyamaka Critique of Epistemology II ............ 204
4.3 Madhyamaka on Naturalized Epistemology ................ 237
5 Ethics ..................................................... 249
5.1 Buddhist Paleocompatibilism ........................... 249
5.2 Buddhist Reductionism and the Structure of Buddhist
Ethics ................................................ 263
6 Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Indian Philosophy ................ 277
6.1 Nyāya Realism, Buddhist Critique ...................... 277
6.2 Distinguishing the Mдdhyamika from the Advaitin:
A Field Guide ......................................... 289
Bibliography .................................................. 301
Index ......................................................... 309
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