Recognizing the importance of the Kyoto School & its influence on philosophy, politics, religion & Asian studies, this text seeks to initiate a conversation between Japanese & Western philosophers.
Recognizing the importance of the Kyoto School and its influence on philosophy, politics, religion and Asian studies, this text seeks to initiate a conversation between Japanese and Western philosophers.
La rationalité, une ou plurielle?
"Contradiction is impossible"--The origin of logic in China -- Philosophy and geometry in early China -- Greek and Chinese categories -- Words for atoms, atoms for words : comparative considerations on the origins of atomism in ancient Greece and on the absence of atomism in anc…
"What is enlightenment? Wei Zhang brings together the fabled consideration of enlightenment by Kant, his contemporaries, and modern respondents such as Habermas and Foucault with the question "What is Chinese enlightenment?" Kant and his peers began a discussion of the notion of…
In the recent, burgeoning discourse on Buddhist thought and cognitive science, premodern Buddhists are sometimes characterized as veritable "mind scientists" whose insights anticipate modern research on the brain and mind. Aiming to complicate this story, Dan Arnold confronts a …
This constructive work of comparative philosophy explains the concept of dualism, looks at the problems it creates, and suggests how these might be circumnavigated.
This constructive work of comparative philosophy explains the concept of dualism, looks at the problems it creates, and suggests how these might be circumnavigated.
The six lectures that make up this work were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-exami…