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How Things Are - An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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How Things Are - An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics (Hardcover)
Series: Buddhist Philosophy For Philosophers
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It is widely known that Buddhists deny the existence of the self.
However, Buddhist philosophers defend interesting positions on a
variety of other issues in fundamental ontology. In particular,
they have important things to say about ontological reduction and
the nature of the causal relation. Amidst the prolonged debate over
global anti-realism, Buddhist philosophers devised an innovative
approach to the radical nominalist denial of all universals and
real resemblances. While some defend presentism, others propound
eternalism. In How Things Are, Mark Siderits presents the arguments
that Buddhist philosophers developed on these and other issues.
Those with an interest in metaphysics may find new and interesting
insights into what the Buddhists had to say about their ideas. This
work is designed to introduce some of the more important fruits of
Buddhist metaphysical inquiry to philosophers with little or no
prior knowledge of that tradition. While there is plenty of
scholarship on the Indian Buddhist philosophical tradition, it is
primarily concerned with the historical details, often presupposes
background knowledge of the major schools and figures, and makes
ample use of untranslated Sanskrit technical terms. What has been
missing from this area of philosophical inquiry, are studies that
make the Buddhist tradition accessible to philosophers who are
interested in solving metaphysical problems. This work fills that
gap by focusing not on history and texts but on the metaphysical
puzzles themselves, and on ways of trying to solve them.
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