Comparative philosophy of religions
Disciplinary challenges
A grammar for comparison
Comparative philosophy of religions
Content, structure, and arguments
Epistemology
Religious epistemology in classical India: in defense of a Hindu god
Interpreting Nyāya epistemology
The Nyāya argument for the existence of Īśvara
Defending the Nyāya argument
Conclusion: Shifting the burden of proof
Against Īśvara: Ratnakīrti's Buddhist critique
The Section on pervasion: the trouble with natural relations
Two arguments
The Section on the reason property
The Section on the target property
Conclusion: Is Īśvara the maker of the world?
Language, mind, and ontology
The theory of exclusion, conceptual content, and Buddhist epistemology
The theory of exclusion
What exclusion is not
Semantic value
Ratnakīrti's inferential argument
Conclusion: Jñānaśrīmitra's three questions
Ratnakīrti's world: toward a Buddhist philosophy of everything
An inventory of mental objects/images
The contents of perception
The contents of inferential/verbal awareness
Nonexistence, existence, and ultimate existence
The Īśvara-inference, revisited
Conclusion: Who created the world?
The values of Buddhist epistemology
Foundational figures and foundational texts
The soteriological significance of epistemology
Jñānaśrīmitra on epistemology as pedagogy
Ratnakīrti's framework of value
Conclusion: Religious reasoning as religious practice.
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Against a Hindu god : Buddhist philosophy of religion in India by Parimal G. Patil. ISBN 9780231513074. Published by Columbia University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
