Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; PART I Two Images and Two Truths; 1 The World in Which Everything Is the Self: The Philosophy of the Original Image and Pan-Self-Ism; 2 Two Tables, Images, and Truths; 3 Is There an Ideal Scientific Image? Sellars and Dharmakīrti on Levels of Reality; 4 Sellars and the Stereoscopic Vision of Madhyamaka; 5 Deflating the Two Images and the Two Truths: Bons baisers du Tibet; 6 The Ambience of Principles: Sellarsian Community and Ethical Intent; PART II The Myth of the Given and Buddhist Philosophy of Mind
7 Givenness and Primal Confusion8 Givenness as a Corollary to Non-Conceptual Awareness: Thinking About Thought in Buddhist Philosophy; 9 Dignāga and Sellars: Through the Lens of Privileged Access; 10 Who's Afraid of Non-Conceptuality? Rehabilitating Digṅāga's Distinction Between Perception and Thought; 11 Knowing How to See the Good: Vipaśyanā in Kamalaśīla's The Process of Mediation; 12 Mr. Jones and the Surpluses of Reality; References; List of Contributors; Index
Summary
The aim of this book is to address the relevance of Wilfrid Sellars' philosophy to understanding topics in Buddhist philosophy. While contemporary scholars of Buddhism often take Sellars as a touchstone for philosophical analysis, and while many take Sellars' corpus as their entrée into current philosophical discourse, fewer contemporary philosophers have crossed the bridge in the other direction, using Sellarsian ideas as a way of entering into Buddhist philosophy. The essays in this volume, written by both philosophers and Buddhist Studies scholars, are divided into two sections organized around two of Sellars' essays that have been particularly influential in Buddhist Studies: "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man" and "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind." The chapters in Part I generally address questions concerning the two truths, while those in Part II concern issues in epistemology and philosophy of mind. The volume will be of interest to Sellars scholars, to scholars interested in the contemporary interaction of Buddhist philosophy and Western philosophy and to scholars of Buddhist Studies
