History Of Indian And Africana Philosophy

Did Indian ideas play a role in shaping ancient Greek philosophy?

An interview with Amber Carpenter about the status of nonhuman animals in ancient Indian philosophy and literature.

Philosophy is put into practice in Kashmir Śaivite Tantra and Buddhist Tantra.

Buddhaghosa, a major figure in the history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, argues against the need for a self to control and coordinate mental activities.

Dignāga argues that all perception is accompanied by self-awareness.

Graham Priest joins Peter to discuss non-classical logic and its connections with Buddhist patterns of reasoning.

Dignāga’s trairūpya theory, which sets out the three conditions required for making reliable inferences.

The great Buddhist thinker Dignāga argues that general concepts and language are mere constructions superimposed on perception.

Vasubandhu’s path to Yogācāra Buddhism, a form of idealism which holds that nothing can be mind-independent.

We're joined by Marie-Hélène Gorisse for a look at the Jain theory of knowledge.

Does the Jain theory of seven predications (saptabhaṇgī) land them in self-contradiction, or help them to avoid it?

The Jain theory of standpoints or non-onesidedness (anekāntavāda) makes truth a matter of perspective.

A discussion with Jan Westerhoff, an expert on the great Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna.

Nāgārjuna’s four-fold argument scheme, the tetralemma (catuṣkoṭi).

Nāgārjuna applies his emptiness theory to motion, change, and cognition.

Nāgārjuna founds the Madhyāmaka (“middle way”) Buddhist tradition by “relinquishing all views” and arguing that everything is “empty.”

An introduction to philosophical developments in Buddhism and Jainism up to the time of Dignāga in the sixth century AD.

Bharata’s Nāṭya-Śāstra and later works from Kashmir explore the idea of rasa, an emotional response to drama, music, and poetry.

Monima Chadha takes Peter through Buddhist-Hindu debates over mind and self.

Pāyasi and the Cārvāka anticipate modern-day theories of mind by arguing that there is no independent soul; rather thought emerges from the body.