The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy tells the story of
philosophy in India through a series of exceptional individual acts
of philosophical virtuosity. It brings together forty leading
international scholars to record the diverse figures, movements,
and approaches that constitute philosophy in the geographical
region of the Indian subcontinent, a region sometimes nowadays
designated South Asia. The volume aims to be ecumenical, drawing
from different locales, languages, and literary cultures, inclusive
of dissenters, heretics and sceptics, of philosophical ideas in
thinkers not themselves primarily philosophers, and reflecting
India's north-western borders with the Persianate and Arabic
worlds, its north-eastern boundaries with Tibet, Nepal, Ladakh and
China, as well as the southern and eastern shores that afford
maritime links with the lands of Theravda Buddhism. Indian
Philosophy has been written in many languages, including Pali,
Prakrit, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu,
Bengali, Marathi, Persian, Kannada, Punjabi, Hindi, Tibetan, Arabic
and Assamese. From the time of the British colonial occupation, it
has also been written in English. It spans philosophy of law,
logic, politics, environment and society, but is most strongly
associated with wide-ranging discussions in the philosophy of mind
and language, epistemology and metaphysics (how we know and what is
there to be known), ethics, metaethics and aesthetics, and
metaphilosophy. The reach of Indian ideas has been vast, both
historically and geographically, and it has been and continues to
be a major influence in world philosophy. In the breadth as well as
the depth of its philosophical investigation, in the sheer bulk of
surviving texts and in the diffusion of its ideas, the
philosophical heritage of India easily stands comparison with that
of China, Greece, the Latin west, or the Islamic world.
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