Table Of ContentThe Moon Points Back
THE MOON
POINTS BACK
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Edited by
KOJI TANAKA,
YASUO DEGUCHI,
JAY L. GARFIELD,
AND
GRAHAM PRIEST
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The moon points back / edited by Koji Tanaka, Yasuo Deguchi, Jay Garfield,
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1. Sunyata. 2. Buddhist philosophy. 3. Analysis (Philosophy) 4. Philosophy,
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Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction—Koji TanaKa, Yasuo Deguchi, jaY L. garfieLD,
anD graham PriesT xi
1. Persons Keeping Their Karma Together: The Reasons
for the Pudgalavāda in Early Buddhism—amber D. carPenTer 1
2. On Minds, Dharmakīrti and Madhyamaka—Tom j. f. TiLLemans 45
3. On Being Humean about the Emptiness
of Causation—ricKi bLiss 67
4. Essence and Emptiness—roY W. PerreTT 97
5. The Net of Indra—graham PriesT 113
6. Buddhist Reductionism and Emptiness in Huayan
Perspective—nichoLaos jones 128
7. Constructing a Logic of Emptiness: Nishitani, Jízāng,
and Paraconsistency—Yasuo Deguchi 150
8. Nāgārjuna’s Logic—aaron j. coTnoir 176
9. Conventional Truth and Intentionality in the
Work of Dharmakīrti—Laura guerrero 189
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10. Relativism in Buddhist Philosophy: Candrakīrti on Mutual
Dependence and the Basis of Convention—eLena WaLsh 220
11. Two Truths and Method—jaY L. garfieLD 245
References 263
Index 279
Contributors
Ricki Bliss is an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania. She wrote her doctoral dissertation under Graham Priest at
the University of Melbourne, Australia, after which she studied with Yasuo
Deguchi for two years at Kyoto University, Japan, as a JSPS postdoctoral
research fellow. She works mainly in analytic metaphysics.
Amber D. Carpenter studied Sanskrit at SOAS to keep her sane while writ-
ing a PhD on Plato’s Philebus at King’s College, London. She has pub-
lished on topics in ancient Greek philosophy and, more recently, on Indian
Buddhist philosophy (Indian Buddhist Philosophy, Routledge 2014). In both
Greek and Indian philosophy, her main interest is in ethics, and particu-
larly in how matters of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical psy-
chology intersect with the questions of who we should be and how we
should live. She is Associate Professor at Yale-NUS College.
Aaron J. Cotnoir received his PhD in philosophy from the University
of Connecticut in 2010. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of
Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He works primarily in meta-
physics and philosophical logic, and has strong research interests in phi-
losophy of religion (both Western and non-Western).
Yasuo Deguchi is Professor of Philosophy, Kyoto. His research inter-
ests include philosophy of science and analytic Asian philosophy. As
for the latter subject, he coauthored several papers with Jay Garfield
and Graham Priest, such as “The Way of Dialetheist: Contradictions in
Buddhism” (Philosophy East and West 2008), and contributed a chapter
titled “Nishitani on Emptiness and Nothingness” to Nothingness in Asian
Philosophy (Routledge 2014).
Jay L. Garfield is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities
and Head of Studies in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of
viii Contributors
Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, Recurrent Visiting
Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, Doris Silbert Professor in the
Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Professor of
Philosophy at Melbourne University, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
at the Central University of Tibetan Studies.
Laura Guerrero is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley
University. Her work focuses on drawing productive connections between
contemporary Western and classical Indian theories of mind, metaphys-
ics, and knowledge.
Nicholaos Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy,
and coordinator for the Program in Science and Technology Studies, at
the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His research interests include
Chinese Buddhism, with a focus on the Huayan School, as well as phi-
losophy of science, with focuses on idealizations and visualizations. His
writings have appeared in Asian Philosophy, Journal of Chinese Philosophy,
Philosophy East and West, Philosophy & Biology, Erkenntnis, and Studies in
History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.
Roy W. Perrett is presently a Research Associate of the School of Historical
and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, and was formerly
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He has pub-
lished widely on both Indian and Western philosophy, including his books
Death and Immortality (Springer 1986), Hindu Ethics: A Philosophical Study
(University of Hawai‘i Press 1998), and the forthcoming An Introduction to
Indian Philosophy (Cambridge University Press).
Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate
Center, City University of New York, and Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus
at the University of Melbourne. He is known for his work on nonclassi-
cal logic, particularly in connection with dialetheism, on the history of
philosophy, and on Buddhist philosophy. He has published articles in
nearly every major philosophy and logic journal. His books include: In
Contradiction: A Study of the Transconsistent (Martinus Nijhoff 1987;
2nd ed., Oxford University Press 2006); Beyond the Limits of Thought
(Cambridge University Press 1995; 2nd ed., Oxford University Press
2002); Towards Non-Being: The Semantics and Metaphysics of Intentionality
(Oxford University Press 2005); Doubt Truth to Be a Liar (Oxford University
Press 2006); Introduction to Non-Classical Logic Form If to Is (Cambridge
University Press 2008); One (Oxford University Press 2014).
Contributors ix
Koji Tanaka is Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, RSSS, at the Australian
National University. His research focuses on logic, history and philosophy
of logic, philosophy of language, Buddhist philosophy, classical Chinese
philosophy and Japanese philosophy.
Tom J. F. Tillemans is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies at the
University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His published work has focused
largely on comparative philosophy, Buddhist logic, epistemology, and
philosophy of the middle (Madhyamaka). His most recent book is How
Do Mādhyamikas Think? (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism,
Somerville, MA: Wisdom). Tillemans was editor of the Journal of the
International Association of Buddhist Studies and is presently editor in chief
of the 84000, a project to translate Buddhist canonical literature from
Tibetan and Sanskrit (http://84000.co).
Elena Walsh is a PhD student in the philosophy department at the
University of Sydney. She has an MA in philosophy from the University
of Melbourne. Her research interests include Buddhist philosophy, moral
psychology, and the philosophy and psychology of emotion.
