The History of Indian Philosophy is a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the movements and thinkers that have shaped Indian philosophy over the last three thousand years.

Table of Contents

• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• I Knowledge, context, concepts
• 1 Interpretations or interventions? Indian philosophy in the global cosmopolis - Christian Coseru
• 2 Methodology in Indian philosophy - Nirmalya N. Chakraborty
• 3 Pramāṇa epistemology: origins and developments - Purushottama Bilimoria
• 4 Buddhist hermeneutics - John Powers
• 5 Process philosophy and phenomenology of time in Buddhism - Hari Shankar Prasad
• 6 Philosophy and religion in India - Jessica Frazier
• 7 Indian skepticism - Raghunath Ghosh
• 8 Self in Indian philosophy: questions, answers, issues - Michael P. Levine
• 9 Contents of consciousness: perception - Monima Chadha
• 10 Indian materialism - Raghunath Ghosh
• IIa Philosophical traditions
• 11 Philosophy of the Brāhmaṇas - Herman Tull
• 12 Upaniṣads - Brian Black
• 13 Sāṃkhya - Mikel Burley
• 14 The diverse traditions of Sāṃkhya - Knut A. Jacobsen
• 15 Mīmāṃsā - Elisa Freschi
• 16 The categories in Vaiśeṣika: known and named - ShashiPrabha Kumar
• 17 Nyāya - Stephen Phillips
• 18 The Nyāya on inference and fallacies - J. L. Shaw
• 19 Embodied connectionism: Nyāya philosophy of mind - Douglas L. Berger
• 20 A phenomenological reading of the Nyāya critique of the no-self view: Udayana and the phenomenal separateness of self - Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
• 21 Udayana's theory of extrinsic validity in his theistic monograph - Taisei Shida
• 22 Early Vedānta - Andrew J. Nicholson
• 23 Advaita Vedānta of Śaṅkara - Thomas A. Forsthoefel
• 24 Avidyā: the hard problem in Advaita Vedānta - Stephen Kaplan
• 25 Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta - Christopher Bartley
• 26 An overview of classical Yoga philosophy as a philosophy of embodied self-awareness - Ana Laura Funes Maderey
• 27 A reassessment of classical Yoga philosophy - Ian Whicher
• IIb Philosophical traditions
• 28 Indian Yogācāra Buddhism: a historical perspective - William S. Waldron
• 29 Early Mahāyāna - Peter Gilks
• 30 Abhidharma - Joseph Walser
• 31 Nāgārjuna - Jay L. Garfield
• 32 Nāgārjuna's early Madhyamaka: “deconstruction” and moderation - Douglas L. Berger
• 33 A spectrum of metaphysical positions concerning the existence or non-existence of a self: Nyāya, Śaiva Siddhānta, Mīmāṃsā, Jainism and Buddhism - Alex Watson
• 34 Svātantrika Madhyamaka metaphysics: Bhāvaviveka's conception of reality - Sonam Thakchoe
• 35 The two truths in Madhyamaka: Jñānagarbha - Sonam Thakchoe
• 36 Vajrayāna Buddhism - Joseph Loizzo, edited by Amy Rayner
• IIc Philosophical traditions
• 37 Hermeneutics: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina - Arthur Dudney
• 38 Basic Jaina epistemology - Jayandra Soni
• 39 Anekāntavāda, Nayavāda, and Syādvāda: the history and significance of the Jaina doctrines of relativity - Jeffery D. Long
• 40 Jaina ethics and moral philosophy - Christopher Key Chapple
• 41 Tantra and Kashmiri Śaivism - David Peter Lawrence
• 42 Looking beyond the Darśanas: Tantric knowledge systems and Indian philosophy - Jason Schwartz
• 43 The epistemology of classical Hindu Law - Donald R. Davis, Jr.
• 44 Abhinavagupta - Loriliai Biernacki
• 45 Cognition and language: Buddhist criticism of Bhartṛhari's thesis - Toshiya Unebe
• 46 Alaṃkārkaśāstra as a philosophical discipline - David Mellins
• 47 Indian philosophy of music - William J. Jackson
• III Engaging and encounters: modern and postmodern
• 48 Islamic modernism in India - Muhammad Kamal
• 49 Gur-Sikh dharam - Balbinder Singh Bhogal
• 50 Buddhist ethics - Damien Keown
• 51 Process Buddhism: ethics and social engagement - Peter Paul Kakol, edited by Amy Rayner
• 52 Indian and European philosophy - Thomas B. Ellis
• 53 Modern philosophy in India - A. Raghuramaraju
• 54 Gandhi's truth: debating Bilgrami - Bindu Puri
• 55 Understanding Indian philosophical traditions - Anna-Pya Sjödin
• 56 G. R. Malkani - Sharad Deshpande
• 57 Postmodern approaches - Carl Olson
• 58 Philosophy in an age of postcolonialism - Joseph Prabhu
• Glossary of sanskrit terms