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Title

Apoha : Buddhist nominalism and human cognition / edited by Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, Arindam Chakrabarti.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Siderits, Mark, 1946-
• Tillemans, Tom J. F.
• Chakrabarti, Arindam.

Description

viii, 333 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Writing from the vantage points of history, philosophy, and cognitive science, the contributors to this volume clarify the nominalist apoha theory and explore the relationship between apoha and the scientific study of human cognition. They engage throughout in a lively debate over the theory's legitimacy. Classical Indian philosophers challenged the apoha theory's legitimacy, believing instead in the existence of enduring essences. Seeking to settle this controversy, essays explore whether apoha offers new and workable solutions to problems in the scientific study of human cognition. They show that the work of generations of Indian philosophers can add much toward the resolution of persistent conundrums in analytic philosophy and cognitive science."--From publisher description.

Subject

• Buddhist logic
• Nominalism
• Negation (Logic)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

How to talk about ineffable things : Dignāga and Dhārma-kirti on apoha / Tom Tillemans -- Dignāga's apoha theory : its presuppositions and main theoretical implications / Ole Pind -- Key features of Dhārma-kirti's apoha theory / John Dunne -- Dhārma-kirti's discussion of circularity / Pascale Hugon -- Apoha theory as an approach to understanding human cognition / Sh. Katsura -- The apoha theory as referred to in the Nyyamañjar / Masaaki Hattori -- Constructing the content of awareness events / Parimal G. Patil -- The apoha theory of meaning : a critical account / Prabal Kumar Sen -- Apoha as a naturalized account of concept formation / Georges Dreyfus -- Apoha, feature-placing and sensory content / Jonardon Ganeri -- Funes and categorization in an abstraction-free world / Amita Chatterjee -- Apoha semantics : some simpleminded questions and doubts / Bob Hale -- Classical semantics and apoha semantics / Brendan S. Gillon -- Rughna by dusk / Mark Siderits.

ISBN

• 9780231153607 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231153600 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231153614 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0231153619 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780231527385 (ebook)
• 0231527381 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2010049385

OCLC

• 689858544
• SCSB-11606307

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library