Mario D'Amato is Assistant Professor of Religion at Rollins College. He specializes in Yog¿c¿ra philosophy and philosophy of religion. His study and translation of the Yog¿c¿ra treatise Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes will be published in 2009.
Jay L. Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in India. His research addresses topics in Buddhist philosophy, Cognitive Science, and cross-cultural hermeneutics.
Tom J.F. Tillemans is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is one of the world's foremost authorities on Buddhist logic and epistemology, and is General Secretary of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.

• Introduction


• 1: Chris Mortensen: Zen and the Unsayable


• 2: Rupert Read: Wittgenstein and Zen Buddhism: One Practice, No Dogma


• 3: Jan Westerhoff: The No-Thesis View: Making Sense of Verse 29 of N¿g¿rjuna's Vigrahavy¿vartan¿


• 4: Mario D'Amato: Why the Buddha Never Uttered a Word


• 5: Mark Siderits: Is Reductionism Expressible?


• 6: Jay L. Garfield and Graham Priest: Mountains Are Just Mountains


• 7: Tom J.F. Tillemans: How Do M¿dhyamikas Think? Notes on Jay Garfield, Graham Priest, and Paraconsistency


• 8: Koji Tanaka: A Dharmak¿rtian Critique of N¿g¿rjunians


• 9: Raymond Martin: Would It Matter All That Much If There Were No Selves?


• 10: Dan Arnold: Svasa?vitti as Methodological Solipsism: "Narrow Content" and the Problem of Intentionality in Buddhist Philosophy of Mind


• Bibliography

This volume collects essays by philosophers and scholars working at the interface of Western philosophy and Buddhist Studies. Many have distinguished scholarly records in Western philosophy, with expertise in analytic philosophy and logic, as well as deep interest in Buddhist philosophy. Others have distinguished scholarly records in Buddhist Studies with strong interests in analytic philosophy and logic. All are committed to the enterprise of cross-culturalphilosophy and to bringing the insights and techniques of each tradition to bear in order to illuminate problems and ideas of the other. These essays address a broad range of topics in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics, and demonstrate the fecundity of theinteraction between the Buddhist and Western philosophical and logical traditions.