The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy tells the story of philosophy in India through a series of exceptional individual acts of philosophical virtuosity. It brings together forty leading international scholars to record the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute philosophy in the geographical region of the Indian subcontinent, a region sometimes nowadays designated South Asia. The volume aims to be ecumenical, drawing from different locales, languages, and literary cultures, inclusive of dissenters, heretics and sceptics, of philosophical ideas in thinkers not themselves primarily philosophers, and reflecting India's north-western borders with the Persianate and Arabic worlds, its north-eastern boundaries with Tibet, Nepal, Ladakh and China, as well as the southern and eastern shores that afford maritime links with the lands of Theravda Buddhism. Indian Philosophy has been written in many languages, including Pali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Persian, Kannada, Punjabi, Hindi, Tibetan, Arabic and Assamese. From the time of the British colonial occupation, it has also been written in English. It spans philosophy of law, logic, politics, environment and society, but is most strongly associated with wide-ranging discussions in the philosophy of mind and language, epistemology and metaphysics (how we know and what is there to be known), ethics, metaethics and aesthetics, and metaphilosophy. The reach of Indian ideas has been vast, both historically and geographically, and it has been and continues to be a major influence in world philosophy. In the breadth as well as the depth of its philosophical investigation, in the sheer bulk of surviving texts and in the diffusion of its ideas, the philosophical heritage of India easily stands comparison with that of China, Greece, the Latin west, or the Islamic world.

Jonardon Ganeri is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, and the author of The Lost Age of Reason (OUP 2011) and The Self (OUP 2012).

Introduction: Why Indian Philosophy? Why Now? Jonardon Ganeri
Timeline: Indian Philosophy in 100+ Thinkers Jonardon Ganeri

Methods, Literatures, Histories
1. Interpreting Indian Philosophy: Three Parables (Matthew Kapstein)
2. History and Doxography of the Philosophical Schools (Ashok Aklujkar)
3. Philosophy as a Distinct Cultural Practice: The Transregional Context (Justin E. H. Smith)
4. Comparison or Confluence in Philosophy? (Mark Siderits)

Legacies of Sutta & S?tra: Philosophy Before Dign?ga (100-480)
5. N?g?rjuna on Emptiness: A Comprehensive Critique of Foundationalism (Jan Westerhoff)
6. Philosophical Quietism in N?g?rjuna and Early Madhyamaka (Tom Tillemans)
7. Habit and Karmic Result in the Yoga??stra (Christopher Framarin)
8. Vasubandhu on the Conditioning Factors and the Buddha's Use of Language (Jonathan Gold)
9. Buddhaghosa on the Phenomenology of Love and Compassion (Maria Heim)
10. The Philosophy of Mind of Kundakunda and Um?sv?ti (Piotr Balcerowicz)
11. V?tsy?yana: Cognition as a Guide to Action (Matthew Dasti)
12. Bhart?hari on Language, Perception and Consciousness (Vincenzo Vergiani)

The Age of Dialogue: A Sanskrit Cosmopolis (480-800)
13. Coreference and Qualification: Dign?ga Debated by Kum?rila and Dharmak?rti (John Taber and Kei Kataoka)
14. Reflexive Awareness & No-Self: Dign?ga Debated by Uddyotakara & Dharmak?rti (Monima Chadha)
15. The Metaphysics of Self in Pra?astap?da's Differential Naturalism (Shalini Sinha)
16. Proving Idealism: Dharmak?rti (Birgit Kellner)
17. ??ntideva's Impartialist Ethics (Charles Goodman)
18. A History of Materialism from Ajita to Udbha?a (Ramkrishna Bhattacharya)
19. Consciousness & Causal Emergence: ??ntarak?ita against Physicalism (Christian Coseru)
20. Pushing Idealism Beyond its Limits: The Place of Philosophy in Kamala??la's Steps of Cultivation (Dan Arnold)

The Age of Disquiet (800-1300)
21. Jayar??i Against the Philosophers (Piotr Balcerowicz)
22. Two Theories of Motivation and their Assessment by Jayanta (Rajam Raghunathan)
23. Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta on the Freedom of Consciousness (Isabelle Ratié)
24. The Nature of Idealism in the Mok?op?ya/ Yoga-v?si??ha (François Chenet)
25. Logic in the Tradition of Prabh?candra (Marie-Hélène Gorisse)
26. An Indian Philosophy of Law: Vijñ?ne?vara's Epitome of the Law (Donald Davis)
27. ?r?har?a's Dissident Epistemology: Of Knowledge as Assurance (Jonardon Ganeri)

Philosophy From Ga?ge?a (1300-1460)
28. A Defeasibility Theory of Knowledge in Ga?ge?a (Stephen Phillips)
29. Jayat?rtha and the Problem of Perceptual Illusion (Michael Williams)
30. M?dhava's Garland of Jaimini's Reasons as Exemplary M?m??s? Philosophy (Francis Clooney)
31. Hindu Disproofs of God: Refuting Ved?ntic Theism in the S??khya-s?tra (Andrew Nicholson)

Early Modernity: New Philosophy in India (1460-1757)
32. Raghun?tha ?iro?ani and the Examination of the Truth about the Categories (Michael Williams)
33. N?laka??ha Caturdhara's Advaita Ved?nta (Christopher Minkowski)
34. Mu?ibball?h Il?h?b?d? on Ontology: Debates over the Nature of Being (Shankar Nair)

Freedom & Identity on the Eve of Independence (1857-1947)
35. Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Contexts of Indian Secularism (Akeel Bilgrami)
36. Freedom in Thinking: The Immersive Cosmopolitanism of Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (Jonardon Ganeri)
37. Bimrao Ramji Ambedkar's Modern Moral Idealism: A Metaphysics of Emancipation (Gopal Guru)
Anukul Chandra Mukerji: The Modern Subject (Nalini Bhushan & Jay L. Garfield)