Classical Indian Philosophy

Origins; 1 Begin at the End: Introduction to Indian Philosophy; 2 Scriptures, Schools, and Systems: A Historical Overview; 3 Kingdom for a Horse: India in the Vedic Period; 4 Hide and Seek: The Upaniṣads; 5 Indra's Search: The Self in the Upaniṣads; 6 You Are What You Do: Karma in the Upaniṣads; 7 Case Worker: Pāṇini's Grammar; 8 Suffering and Smiling: The Buddha; 9 Crossover Appeal: The Nature of the Buddha's Teaching; 10 Carry a Big Stick: Ancient Indian Political Thought; 11 Better Half: Women in Ancient India; 12 Grand Illusion: Dharma and Deception in the Mahābhārata; 13 World on a String: The Bhagavad-gītā; 14 Mostly Harmless: Non-Violence; The Age of the Sūtra; 15 A Tangled Web: The Age of the Sūtra; 16 When in Doubt: The Rise of Skepticism; 17 Master of Ceremonies: Jaimini's Mīmāṃsā-sūtra; 18 Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Mīmāṃsā on Knowledge and Language; 19 Source Code: Bādarāyaṇa's Vedānta-sūtra; 20 No Two Ways About It: Śaṅkara and Advaita Vedānta; 21 Communication Breakdown: Bhartṛhari on Language; 22 The Theory of Evolution: īśvarakṛṣṇa's Sāṃkhya-kārikā; 23 Who Wants to Live Forever? Early āyurvedic Medicine; 24 Practice Makes Perfect: Patañjali's Yoga-sūtra; 25 Where There's Smoke There's Fire: Gautama's Nyāya-sūtra; 26 What You See Is What You Get: Nyāya on Perception; 27 Standard Deductions: Nyāya on Reasoning; 28 The Truth Shall Set You Free: Nyāya on the Mind; 29 Fine Grained Analysis: Kaṇāda's Vaiśeṣika-sūtra; 30 The Whole Story: Vaiśeṣika on Complexity and Causation; 31 A Day in the Life: Theories of Time; 32 The Wolf's Footprint: Indian Naturalism; 33 Mind out of Matter: Materialist Theories of the Self; Buddhists and

Peter Adamson received his BA from Williams College and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He worked at King's College London from 2000 until 2012. He subsequently moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, where he is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy, and is the host of the History of Philosophy podcast. Jonardon Ganeri is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of Attention, Not Self (2017), The Self (2012), The Lost Age of Reason (2011), and The Concealed Art of the Soul (2007). Ganeri's work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. He became the first philosopher to win the Infosys Prize in the Humanities in 2015.