History of Indian and Africana Philosophy
Summary: Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, and Chike Jeffers present the philosophical traditions of India, Africa, and the African Diaspora. Further reading and info at www.historyofphilosophy.net.
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Podcasts:
Vasubandhu’s path to Yogācāra Buddhism, a form of idealism which holds that nothing can be mind-independent.
We're joined by Marie-Hélène Gorisse for a look at the Jain theory of knowledge.
Does the Jain theory of seven predications (saptabhaṇgī) land them in self-contradiction, or help them to avoid it?
The Jain theory of standpoints or non-onesidedness (anekāntavāda) makes truth a matter of perspective.
A discussion with Jan Westerhoff, an expert on the great Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna.
Nāgārjuna’s four-fold argument scheme, the tetralemma (catuṣkoṭi).
Nāgārjuna applies his emptiness theory to motion, change, and cognition.
Nāgārjuna founds the Madhyāmaka (“middle way”) Buddhist tradition by “relinquishing all views” and arguing that everything is “empty.”
An introduction to philosophical developments in Buddhism and Jainism up to the time of Dignāga in the sixth century AD.
Bharata’s Nāṭya-Śāstra and later works from Kashmir explore the idea of rasa, an emotional response to drama, music, and poetry.
Monima Chadha takes Peter through Buddhist-Hindu debates over mind and self.
Pāyasi and the Cārvāka anticipate modern-day theories of mind by arguing that there is no independent soul; rather thought emerges from the body.
The Cārvāka or Lokāyata tradition rejects the efficacy of ritual and belief in the afterlife, and restricts knowledge to the realm of sense-perception.
Ancient Indian cosmology and the Vaiśeṣika defense of the reality of time and space.
The Vaiśeṣika response to Buddhist skepticism about wholes made up of parts.
