How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics 1st Edition

How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197606919,0197606911,9780197606933, 0197606938

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0197606938
• ISBN-13: 9780197606933
• Author: Mark Siderits

In How Things Are, Mark Siderits presents the arguments that Buddhist philosophers developed on these and other issues. Those with an interest in metaphysics may find new and interesting insights into what the Buddhists had to say about their ideas.This work is designed to introduce some of the more important fruits of Buddhist metaphysical inquiry to philosophers with little or no prior knowledge of that tradition. While there is plenty of scholarship on the Indian Buddhist philosophical tradition, it is primarily concerned with the historical details, often presupposes background knowledge of the major schools and figures, and makes ample use of untranslated Sanskrit technical terms. What has been missing from this area of philosophical inquiry, are studies that make the Buddhist tradition accessible to philosophers who are interested in solving metaphysical problems. This work fills that gap by focusing not on history and texts but on the metaphysical puzzles themselves, and on ways of trying to solve them.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Buddhist Metaphysical Landscape
2. Non-Self I
3. Non-Self II
4. Fundamental Ontology
5. Causation
6. Buddhist Nominalism
7. Time
8. The External World
9. The Internal World
10. Anti-Realisms Local and Global

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