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Moonshadows : conventional truth in Buddhist philosophy / the Cowherds.

By: Material type: TextTextOxford ; New York ; Oxford University Press, 2011Description: xii, 251 pages; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199751426 (hardcover)
  • 9780199751433 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121.088/2943 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ4255 .C69 2011
Contents:
An introduction to conventional truth / Guy Newland and Tom J.F. Tillemans -- Taking conventional truth seriously: authority regarding deceptive reality / Jay L. Garfield -- Prāsaṅgika epistemology in context / Sonam Thakchoe -- Weighing the butter, levels of explanation and falsification: models of the conventional in Tsongkhapa's account of Madhyamaka / Guy Martin Newland -- Identifying the object of negation and the status of conventional truth: why the dgag bya matters so much to Tibetan Madhyamikas / Jay L. Garfield and Sonam Thakchoe -- Can a Madhyamika be a skeptic? the case of Patsab Nyimadrak / Georges Dreyfus -- Madhyamaka and classical Greek skepticism / Georges Dreyfus and Jay L. Garfield -- The (two) truths about truth / Graham Priest, Mark Siderits and Tom J.F. Tillemans -- How far can a Madhyamika Buddhist reform conventional truth? dismal relativism, fictionalism, easy-easy truth and the alternatives / Tom J.F. Tillemans -- Is everything connected to everything else? what the gopīs know / Mark Siderits -- Carnap's pragmatism and the two truths / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka -- The merely conventional existence of the world / Jan Westerhoff -- Two truths: two models / Graham Priest -- Ethics for Madhyamikas / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-243) and index.

An introduction to conventional truth / Guy Newland and Tom J.F. Tillemans -- Taking conventional truth seriously: authority regarding deceptive reality / Jay L. Garfield -- Prāsaṅgika epistemology in context / Sonam Thakchoe -- Weighing the butter, levels of explanation and falsification: models of the conventional in Tsongkhapa's account of Madhyamaka / Guy Martin Newland -- Identifying the object of negation and the status of conventional truth: why the dgag bya matters so much to Tibetan Madhyamikas / Jay L. Garfield and Sonam Thakchoe -- Can a Madhyamika be a skeptic? the case of Patsab Nyimadrak / Georges Dreyfus -- Madhyamaka and classical Greek skepticism / Georges Dreyfus and Jay L. Garfield -- The (two) truths about truth / Graham Priest, Mark Siderits and Tom J.F. Tillemans -- How far can a Madhyamika Buddhist reform conventional truth? dismal relativism, fictionalism, easy-easy truth and the alternatives / Tom J.F. Tillemans -- Is everything connected to everything else? what the gopīs know / Mark Siderits -- Carnap's pragmatism and the two truths / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka -- The merely conventional existence of the world / Jan Westerhoff -- Two truths: two models / Graham Priest -- Ethics for Madhyamikas / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka.