Comparative philosophy without borders /
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Bloomsbury Academic,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; On borders; On the inescapability of comparison; The subject matter of comparative philosophy; The need for a third in comparing two philosophies; Naked comparison; Clothed comparison; Can comparative philosophy be hard-core philosophy?; On the putative comparative-analytic rift; An example: On reflexivity of consciousness and concept-free perception; Three grave objections threatening the possibility of comparative philosophy; Three stages of comparative philosophy
- Celebrating the collaborative philosophical eclecticism of this collectionConcluding hopes and warnings: Futures of fusion thinking; Notes; References; Chapter 1 Count Nouns, Mass Nouns, and Translatability: The Case of Tibetan Buddhist Logical Literature; Appendix; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Translation, Interpretation, and Alternative Epistemologies; Introduction; Truth in the Twi language of the Akan of Ghana; Truth in Western epistemology; Truth in the language of the Yoruba of Nigeria; Comparative philosophy; Further conclusions; Notes; References
- Chapter 3 Resolving the Ineffability ParadoxPrologue; A preliminary approach; The mechanism of indication; Resolving the paradox; Epilogue; Notes; References; Chapter 4 The Bowstring is Like a Woman Humming: The Vedic Hymn to the Weapons and the Transformative Properties of Tools; The questions; The hymn: Background; The hymn: Interpretation; Weapons, orientation, and the expansion of agency; Notes; References; Chapter 5 How Do We Read Others' Feelings? Strawson and Zhuangzi Speak to Dharmakirti, Ratnakīrti, and Abhinavagupta; Our feelings, their feelings
- I am not You: Zhuangzi and Huizi wrangle about how to know that the fish are happyOur unsocial sociability and the trouble with "you"; The analogical argument from J. S. Mill (1872) and back-tracking to Dharmakirti (seventh century CE); Refutation of the analogical argument: Ratnakīrti's rigorous defense of solipsism; Peter Strawson and a certain peculiarity of P-predicates; Two contemporary routes to reading others' feelings; Abhinavagupta refutes Dharmakirti's "Proof of the Other Mind-Stream"; Objectivity/intersubjectivity within a unity of consciousness and public practice; Notes