The Non-Existence of the Real World

ISBN-13: 9780198847915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 384 str.

Jan Westerhoff

Recenzje

...a tightly defended view of Madhyamaka nonfoundationalism...this tour de force of analytic philosophy marshals the resources available in Western philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, mathematics, and other disciplines to push a sophisticated line of argumentation that explains why the "existence of the external and the internal world as ordinarily conceived" is unviable, and why a true theory of ontology is "an unobtainable mirage.

O autorze

Jan Westerhoff was educated at Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has taught Philosophy at the Universities of Oxford and Durham and is presently Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His books include Ontological Categories (2005), Nãgãrjuna's Madhyamaka (2009), The Dispeller of Disputes (2010), Twelve Examples of Illusion (2010) Reality. A Very Short Introduction (2011), and The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy (2018), all published by Oxford University Press.