Jan Westerhoff

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Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka : a philosophical introduction
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This chapter discusses the meaning of language, meaning, and action of svabhava, the Hindu god of knowledge, in the context of a post-modern world.
Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka
The Dispeller of Disputes
A World of Signs: Baroque Pansemioticism, the Polyhistor and the Early Modern Wunderkammer
This paper is an attempt to argue that there existed a very prominent view of signs and signification in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe which can help us to understand several…
The dispeller of disputes : Nāgārjuna's Vigrahavyāvartanī
1. Introduction 2. Text 3. Commentary 4. The status of the theory of emptiness 5. The Madhyamaka dilemma 6. The sound analogy 7. The no-thesis view 8. Epistemology 9. Establishing the epistemic…
Logical relations between pictures
An implication relation between pictures is defined, it is then shown how conjunctions, disjunctions, negations, and hypotheticals of pictures can be formed on the basis of this. It is argued that…
The no-thesis view: making sense of verse 29 of Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani
Reality: A Very Short Introduction
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This chapter discusses dreams and simulations, which suggest that time is real and persons are real, and the role of matter and persons in this world.
The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy
This book gives a concise account of one of the most vibrant episodes in the history of ancient Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy from the composition of the Abhidharma works…
Madhyamaka and Yogācāra : allies or rivals?
Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: Madhyamaka and Yogacara: Allies or Rivals? - Jay L. Garfield, Jan Westerhoff 1) Pratityasamutpada and Dharmadhatu in Early Mahayana Buddhism - Chaisit…
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