Apoha (eBook)

Mark Siderits is professor of philosophy at Seoul National University and the author of Indian Philosophy of Language, Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy, and Buddhism as Philosophy. Tom Tillemans is professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His books include Scripture, Logic, Language: Essays on Dharmakirti and His Tibetan Successors.Arindam Chakrabarti is professor of philosophy at the University of Hawai'i. He is the author of Denying Existence: The Logic, Epistemology, and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse.

PrefaceIntroduction, by Arindam Chakrabarti and Mark Siderits1. How to Talk About Ineffable Things: Dignaga and Dharmakirti on Apoha, by Tom Tillemans2. Dignaga's Apoha Theory: Its Presuppositions and Main Theoretical Implications, by Ole Pind3. Key Features of Dharmakirti's Apoha Theory, by John D. Dunne4. Dharmakirti's Discussion of Circularity, by Pascale Hugon5. Apoha Theory as an Approach to Understanding Human Cognition, by Shoryu Katsura6. The Apoha Theory as Referred to in the Nyayamañjari, by Masaaki Hattori7. Constructing the Content of Awareness Events, by Parimal G. Patil8. The Apoha Theory of Meaning: A Critical Account, by Prabal Kumar Sen9. Apoha as a Naturalized Account of Concept Formation, by Georges Dreyfus10. Apoha, Feature-Placing, and Sensory Content, by Jonardon Ganeri11. Funes and Categorization in an Abstraction-Free World, by Amita Chatterjee12. Apoha Semantics: Some Simpleminded Questions and Doubts, by Bob Hale13. Classical Semantics and Apoha Semantics, by Brendan S. Gillon14. Srughna by Dusk, by Mark SideritsBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex