| Summary: | Praise for the 1st edition: 'Analytic philosophers should be awakened from their East-shunning dogmatic slumber by this seductive synthesis of vintage Buddhism, philosophical ingenuity and analytical rigour. In this path-breaking study in Buddhism-inspired analytic philosophy , Mark Siderits has critically reconstructed the intricate chain of arguments behind Buddhist reductionism and anti-realism about persons. ...Siderits establishes himself as one of those handful of contemporary philosophers of language who can handle Indian and Western materials with equal dexterity.' Arindam Chakrabarti, Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA '...a philosophically subtle and provocative book. Siderits offers original and powerful arguments. His reading of Buddhist ideas of personhood, his critique of the realist nature of reductionism, and the sustainability of an anti-realist ethics of personhood are all bound to provoke and challenge.' C. Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University, UK 'Perhaps no contemporary philosopher has taken up an Indian philosophical view and argued for it as tenaciously and persuasively as Mark Siderits does in this book. Whether or not one agrees in the end with the position he is defending, this work is a landmark of philosophy and Buddhist Studies.' John Taber, University of New Mexico, USA
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