HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna
July 23, 2017
A discussion with Jan Westerhoff, an expert on the great Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna.
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HPI 46 - No Four Ways About It - Nagarjuna’s Tetralemma
July 9, 2017
Nāgārjuna’s four-fold argument scheme, the tetralemma (catuṣkoṭi).
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HPI 45 - Motion Denied - Nagarjuna on Change
June 25, 2017
Nāgārjuna applies his emptiness theory to motion, change, and cognition.
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HPI 44 - It All Depends - Nagarjuna on Emptiness
June 11, 2017
Nāgārjuna founds the Madhyāmaka (“middle way”) Buddhist tradition by “relinquishing all views” and arguing that everything is “empty.”
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HPI 43 - We Beg to Differ - the Buddhists and Jains
May 28, 2017
An introduction to philosophical developments in Buddhism and Jainism up to the time of Dignāga in the sixth century AD.
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HPI 42 - In Good Taste - The Aesthetics of Rasa
May 14, 2017
Bharata’s Nāṭya-Śāstra and later works from Kashmir explore the idea of rasa, an emotional response to drama, music, and poetry.
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HPI 41 - Monima Chadha on Indian Philosophy of Mind
April 30, 2017
Monima Chadha takes Peter through Buddhist-Hindu debates over mind and self.
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HPI 40 - Mind out of Matter - Materialist Theories of the Self
April 16, 2017
Pāyasi and the Cārvāka anticipate modern-day theories of mind by arguing that there is no independent soul; rather thought emerges from the body.
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HPI 39 - The Wolf’s Footprint - Indian Naturalism
April 2, 2017
The Cārvāka or Lokāyata tradition rejects the efficacy of ritual and belief in the afterlife, and restricts knowledge to the realm of sense-perception.
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HPI 38 - A Day in the Life - Theories of Time
March 19, 2017
Ancient Indian cosmology and the Vaiśeṣika defense of the reality of time and space.
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