Moonshadows

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface 1. An Introduction to Conventional Truth Guy Newland and Tom J F Tillemans 2. Taking Conventional Truth Seriously: Authority Regarding Deceptive Reality Jay L Garfield 3. Prasangika Epistemology in Context Sonam Thakchöe 4. Weighing the Butter, Levels of Explanation and Falsification: Models of the Conventional in Tsongkhapa's Account of Madhyamaka Guy Martin Newland 5. Identifying the Object of Negation and the Status of Conventional Truth: Why the dgag bya Matters So Much to Tibetan Madhyamikas Jay L Garfield and Sonam Thakchöe 6. Can a Madhyamaka be a Skeptic? The Case of Patsab Nyimadrak Georges Dreyfus 7. Madhyamaka and Classical Greek Skepticism Georges Dreyfus and Jay L Garfield 8. The (Two) Truths about Truth Graham Priest, Mark Siderits and Tom J F Tillemans 9. How Far can a Madhyamika Buddhist Reform Conventional Truth? Dismal Relativism, Fictionalism, Easy-easy Truth and the Alternatives Tom J F Tillemans 10. Is Everything Connected to Everything Else? What the Gopis Know Mark Siderits 11. Carnap's Pragmatism and the Two Truths Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka 12. The Merely Conventional Existence of the World Jan Westerhoff 13. Two Truths: Two Models Graham Priest 14. Ethics for Madhyamikas Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka References and Abbreviations Index