- Foundations of Dharmakīrti's Philosophy
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- A Note on the Sanskrit and Tibetan Translations
- Introduction
- 1. Pramāṇa Theory: Dharmakīrti’s Conceptual Context
- 1.1 The Process of Knowing and Its Instrument
- Two Ubiquitous Instruments: Perception and Inference
- Shared Notions Concerning Perceptual Awareness
- Shared Notions Concerning Inference
- The Basic Structure of Inference
- The Evidence-Predicate Relation and Its Exemplification
- The Evidence-Subject Relation
- A Restatement
- 1.2 Prameya: The “Real”
- The Simplicity of the Real and a Fundamental Difference
- 1.3 Purpose as Context
- 1.4 Points of Divergence: The Action and Agent
- 1.5 Summary
- 2. Dharmakīrti’s Method and Ontology
- 2.1 The Scale of Analysis: Dharmakīrti’s Method
- External Realism as a Level of Analysis
- Divergent Interpretations of External Realism
- 2.2 Dharmakīrti’s Ontology
- The Two Prameyas—The Two Realities
- 2.3 More on Particulars
- The Perceptible as Ultimately Real
- The Ultimately Real as Inexpressible and Momentary
- Do Particulars Have Spatial Extension?
- 2.4 Universals
- Summary of Dharmakīrti’s Apoha -Theory
- Concerning Sameness of Effect
- Are Universals Permanent?
- Three Ways of Construing Apoha
- 3. Svabhāvapratibandha: The Basis of Inference
- 3.1 Relation through Svabhāva: Beyond “Co-Presence”
- The Two Senses of Svabhāva
- Svabhāva as “Property”
- Svabhāva as “Nature”
- Nature-svabhāva and the Causal Complex
- The Subject (dharmin) and Svabhāva as “Nature”
- 3.2 The Production-mode of the Svabhāvapratibandha
- Some Issues in the Application of the Production-mode
- Concerning Necessity
- The Determination of the Production-mode
- 3.3 On the Relationship between Property and Nature
- Some Heuristic Terms
- The Subordination of Property to Nature
- 3.4 Svabhāva -evidence and the Identity-mode
- A Few Problems
- 4. Instrumentality: Justifying the Sources of Knowledge
- 4.1 Prāmāṇya as “Instrumentality”
- Purpose and Instrumentality
- The Role of Scripture
- A Seeming Circularity
- Scriptural Inference and Dharmakīrti’s Rejection of Credibility
- Axiological Concerns: Mutual Restraint of Path and Goal
- 4.2 Dharmakīrti on Instrumentality: The Earliest Commentarial Account
- Some Basic Definitions
- “Telic Function” (arthakriyā)
- Instrumentality (prāmāṇya) in Terms of Two Effects
- Instrumentality in Terms of the Mediated Effect
- Instrumentality in Terms of the Unmediated Effect
- The Two Effects and the Two Senses of Arthakriyā
- The Primacy of Puruṣārtha
- Instrumentality in Terms of Human Aims: Some Problems and Solutions
- A Disparity in Time
- Obstructed Action
- Perception and Confirmation
- Perception as Motivator (pravartaka): The Question of Novelty
- Inference, Error, and Trustworthiness
- Ultimate and Conventional Pramāṇa
- Conclusion
- Appendix of Translations
- 5. Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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