Against a Hindu god
Subtitle: Buddhist philosophy of religion in India
By: Parimal G. Patil.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780231142229; 9780231513074
Subjects: Ratnakīrti; Knowledge, Theory of (Buddhism); God (Hinduism); Nyaya; Religion -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Comparative philosophy of religions; title: Disciplinary challenges; title: A grammar for comparison; title: Comparative philosophy of religions; title: Content, structure, and arguments; title: Epistemology; title: Religious epistemology in classical India: in defense of a Hindu god; title: Interpreting Nyāya epistemology; title: The Nyāya argument for the existence of Īśvara; title: Defending the Nyāya argument; title: Shifting the burden of proof; title: Against Īśvara: Ratnakīrti's Buddhist critique; title: The section on pervasion: the trouble with natural relations; title: Two arguments; title: The section on the reason property; title: The section on the target property; title: Is Īśvara the maker of the world?; title: Language, mind, and ontology; title: The theory of exclusion, conceptual content, and Buddhist; title: Epistemology; title: The theory of exclusion; title: What exclusion is not; title: Semantic value; title: Ratnakīrti's inferential argument; title: Jñānaśrīmitra's three questions; title: Ratnakīrti's world: toward a Buddhist philosophy of everything; title: An inventory of mental objects/images; title: The contents of perception; title: The contents of inferential/verbal awareness; title: Nonexistence, existence, and ultimate existence; title: The Īśvara-inference, revisited; title: Who created the world?; title: The values of Buddhist epistemology; title: Foundational figures and foundational texts; title: The soteriological significance of epistemology; title: Jñānaśrīmitra on epistemology as pedagogy; title: Ratnakīrti's framework of value; title: Religious reasoning as religious practice.