Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self: The School of Recognition on Linguistics and Philosophy of Mind

ISBN-13: 9780367528232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 156 str.

Marco Ferrante

Opis

This book examines the theory of consciousness developed by the school of Recognition, an Indian philosophical tradition that thrived around the 10th c. CE in Kashmir, and argues that consciousness has a linguistic nature.

Spis treści

1. Historical and Philosophical Contexts  2. The Buddhist Doctrine of Non–Self  3. The True Nature of Self–Awareness  4. Self–Awareness and the Pratyabhijñā’s forerunners  5. A Linguistic Consciousness  6. Subjectivity and First–Person Stance  7. Self

O autorze

Marco Ferrante is a specialist in Indian philosophy, with a special focus on epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He was Berggruen Fellow in Comparative Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK.