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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| India and the History of Philosophy | |
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| Defining the Subject-Matter | |
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| Histories of Western Philosophy | |
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| Secular Reason and the Dichotomy of Tradition vs Modernity | |
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| Indian Materialism - A Counter-Example | |
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| Can Philosophy be Indian? | |
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| Is there 'Philosophy' in Ancient India? | |
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| Why consider 'Indian Philosophy'? | |
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| The Varieties of Hindu Philosophy | |
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| The Origins and Nature of Hindu Philosophy | |
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| Bhartrhari and the Philosophy of Linguistic Analysis (vyakarana) | |
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| The Varieties of Hindu Philosophy | |
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| The Prior Exegesis School (Purva Mimamsa) | |
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| The Later Exegesis (Uttara Mimamsa) or 'End of the Vedas' (Vedanta) School | |
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| The Particularist School (Vaisesika) | |
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| The School of Reasoning (Nyaya) | |
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| The School of Enumeration (Samkhya) | |
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| The Classical Yoga School | |
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| Buddhist Philosophy in India | |
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| Buddhism in India | |
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| The Doctrinal Foundations of Buddhist Philosophy | |
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| The Buddhist Philosophy of No-Abiding-Self (anatman) | |
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| Mainstream Buddhist Philosophy (Abhidharma) | |
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| Mahayana Buddhism in India | |
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| Ontology: What really exists? | |
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| Vaisesika: Classifying Reality | |
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| Reality as Process: The Abhidharma Response | |
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| Rejecting Ontology: The Mahayana Philosophy of Emptiness | |
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| Epistemology: How do we know what we know? | |
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| The Foundations of Knowledge (pramana) | |
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| Inference (anumana) and the Nyaya School | |
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| Emptiness and Nagarjuna's Critique of Pramana Theory | |
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| Perception: Do we see things as they are? | |
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| The Nature of Perception | |
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| Perception in Advaita Vedanta: Reconciling the Everyday World and Monism | |
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| The Image Theory of Perception (sakara-jnana-vada) | |
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| Consciousness and the Body: What are we? | |
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| The Dualism of the Samkhya School | |
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| The Samkhya Philosophy of Isvarakrsna | |
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| The Yoga System of Patanjali | |
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| Creation and Causality: Where do we come from? | |
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| Myth and History | |
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| Ancient Indian Cosmogonies | |
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| Creation and Causality in Buddhism | |
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| God and Causality in Nyaya-Vaisesika | |
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| Causal Theory in Samkhya and Yoga | |
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| The Early Vedanta of the Brahma Sutra | |
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| Sankara and the Philosophy of Non-Dualism (Advaita Vedanta) | |
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| Causal Theory in Advaita | |
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| Ramanuja and Non-Dualism of the Qualified (Visistadvaita Vedanta) | |
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| Philosophy in a Post-Colonial World | |
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| Postmodernism, Ethnocentricity and Western Philosophy | |
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| The Politics of Translation | |
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| Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Entering the Western Philosophical Arena | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography of Cited Works | |
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| Index and Glossary of Important Sanskrit Terms | |