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Distribution AgreementDistribution Agreement • September 26th, 2022
This dissertation engages two medieval Indian philosophical traditions on the question of how humans construct and experience their worlds. Both Dharmakīrtian Buddhism (7th century onward) and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism (10th century onward) define themselves through dialogical encounters. The problematics of the earlier Buddhist views that Dharmakīrti inherits fundamentally shape his famous theory that concepts refer merely to the exclusion of what is other, and that these concepts guide successful activity in the everyday world despite not being ultimately real. While his thought generally proceeds as if the Abhidharma ontology of ultimately real particulars were correct, at key moments he rejects the idea that any kind of diversity—from spatial extension to the mere differentiation of a moment of awareness into subject and object—could be ultimately real. Following Vasubandhu (4th century), Dharmakīrti finally affirms that, ultimately, the appearance of a dualistically structured world is
