Illuminating the Mind

Illuminating the Mind

An Introduction to Buddhist Epistemology

Stoltz, Jonathan

Oxford University Press Inc

09/2021

280

Mole

Inglês

9780190907549

404

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Preface

Chapter 1: Preliminaries
1. Two Histories
2. Core Terms and Concepts
3. Pramana
4. The Episodic Nature of Cognition/Knowledge
5. Main Themes of the Book

Chapter 2: Knowledge
1. Defining Knowledge?
2. Revealing the Unknown
3. Non-deceptive Cognition
4. Analytic Theories of Knowledge and 'The Standard Analysis'
5. Pramana and Reliabilism

Chapter 3: Perception
1. Perception and Non-conceptual Awareness
2. Perceptual Judgment
3. Four Types of Perception
4. Reflexive Perception and Self-awareness
5. Perception, Illusion, and Hallucination

Chapter 4: Inference
1. Two Forms of Inference
2. Inference and Conceptual Cognition
3. The Structure of Inferential Reasoning
4. Evidence and Entailment
5. Epistemic Closure

Chapter 5: Testimony
1. The Nyaya Account and the Buddhist Response
2. Reductive and Non-reductive Theories of Testimonial Knowledge
3. Speakers, Hearers, and Knowledge
4. The Transmission Theory of Testimony

Chapter 6: Ignorance
1. Mistaken Cognition
2. Ignorant Perception
3. Ignorant Veridical Conception

Chapter 7: Skepticism
1. Skepticism and Skeptical Scenarios
2. Knowledge and Instruments of Knowledge
3. Nagarjuna and the Epistemic Regress Problem
4. The Structure of Knowledge

Chapter 8: Sensitivity & Safety
1. Knowledge, Perception, and Inference
2. Tracking and Sensitivity
3. Safety and Knowledge
4. Discrimination and Alternatives

Chapter 9: Internalism & Externalism
1. The Etiology of Cognition
2. Analyzing Knowledge and Internalism
3. Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Determination of Knowledge Status
4. Factive Mental Episodes and Externalism

Chapter 10: Experimental & Cross-cultural Epistemology
1. Philosophical Intuitions and Experimental Epistemology
2. Cross-cultural Intuitions about Knowledge
3. The Value of Buddhist Epistemology

Notes
Bibliography
Index
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