Religion W4620. Nonduality in Indian and Tibetan Thought

Columbia University, Fall 2002

Tuesday, November 12
The Dogmaticist-Dialecticist Controversy

Assigned Reading

• R. Thurman, Central Philosophy:
  pp. 130-173 (Introduction),
  pp. 265-287 (Chapter 4),
  pp. 288-344 (Chapter 5),
  pp. 345-363 (Chapter 6),
  pp. 364-385 (Chapter 7).

Related Material

• G. Newland, The Two Truths In the Madhyamika Philosopphy (on reserve in Butler).

Western Relevance

• Hare and Gillette, The Discursive Mind: a team effort by an eminent philosopher and neuroscientist to offer a Wittgensteinian critique of cognitive science and its subtle, residual dualism; it resonates with the Prasangika critique of Svatantrika Centrism.

Links of interest