Illuminating the Mind: An Introduction to Buddhist Epistemology

Illuminating the Mind

An Introduction to Buddhist Epistemology
 
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ISBN13:9780190907549
ISBN10:0190907541
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:280 pages
Size:235x157x17 mm
Weight:404 g
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: Preliminaries
1. Two Histories
2. Core Terms and Concepts
3. Pramana
4. The Episodic Nature of Cognition/Knowledge
5. Main Themes of the Book
Chapter 2: Knowledge
1. Defining Knowledge?
2. Revealing the Unknown
3. Non-deceptive Cognition
4. Analytic Theories of Knowledge and 'The Standard Analysis'
5. Pramana and Reliabilism
Chapter 3: Perception
1. Perception and Non-conceptual Awareness
2. Perceptual Judgment
3. Four Types of Perception
4. Reflexive Perception and Self-awareness
5. Perception, Illusion, and Hallucination
Chapter 4: Inference
1. Two Forms of Inference
2. Inference and Conceptual Cognition
3. The Structure of Inferential Reasoning
4. Evidence and Entailment
5. Epistemic Closure
Chapter 5: Testimony
1. The Nyaya Account and the Buddhist Response
2. Reductive and Non-reductive Theories of Testimonial Knowledge
3. Speakers, Hearers, and Knowledge
4. The Transmission Theory of Testimony
Chapter 6: Ignorance
1. Mistaken Cognition
2. Ignorant Perception
3. Ignorant Veridical Conception
Chapter 7: Skepticism
1. Skepticism and Skeptical Scenarios
2. Knowledge and Instruments of Knowledge
3. Nagarjuna and the Epistemic Regress Problem
4. The Structure of Knowledge
Chapter 8: Sensitivity & Safety
1. Knowledge, Perception, and Inference
2. Tracking and Sensitivity
3. Safety and Knowledge
4. Discrimination and Alternatives
Chapter 9: Internalism & Externalism
1. The Etiology of Cognition
2. Analyzing Knowledge and Internalism
3. Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Determination of Knowledge Status
4. Factive Mental Episodes and Externalism
Chapter 10: Experimental & Cross-cultural Epistemology
1. Philosophical Intuitions and Experimental Epistemology
2. Cross-cultural Intuitions about Knowledge
3. The Value of Buddhist Epistemology
Notes
Bibliography
Index