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-Universität München, 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.

The ideal introduction to Indian philosophy for someone new to the field. The notes and bibliography provide ample opportunity to delve deeper into the subject matter... I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

• 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 Jainas 34: We Beg to Differ: The Buddhists and Jainas 35: It All Depends: Nāgārjuna on Emptiness 36: Motion Denied: Nāgārjuna on Change 37: No Four Ways About It: Nāgārjuna's Tetralemma 38: Taking Perspective: The Jaina Theory of Standpoints 39: Well Qualified: The Jainas on Truth 40: Change of Mind: Vasubandhu and Yogācāra Buddhism 41: Who's Pulling Your Strings? Buddhaghosa on No-Self and Autonomy 42: Under Construction: Dignāga on Perception and Language 43: Follow the Evidence: Dignāga's Logic 44: Doors of Perception: Dignāga on Consciousness Beyond Ancient India 45: In Good Taste: The Rasa Aesthetic Theory 46: Learn by Doing: Tantra 47: Looking East: Indian Influence on Greek Thought 48: The Buddha and I: Indian Influence on Islamic and European Thought 49: What Happened Next: Indian Philosophy After Dignāga

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-Universität München, 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.

The ideal introduction to Indian philosophy for someone new to the field. The notes and bibliography provide ample opportunity to delve deeper into the subject matter... I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

• 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 Jainas 34: We Beg to Differ: The Buddhists and Jainas 35: It All Depends: Nāgārjuna on Emptiness 36: Motion Denied: Nāgārjuna on Change 37: No Four Ways About It: Nāgārjuna's Tetralemma 38: Taking Perspective: The Jaina Theory of Standpoints 39: Well Qualified: The Jainas on Truth 40: Change of Mind: Vasubandhu and Yogācāra Buddhism 41: Who's Pulling Your Strings? Buddhaghosa on No-Self and Autonomy 42: Under Construction: Dignāga on Perception and Language 43: Follow the Evidence: Dignāga's Logic 44: Doors of Perception: Dignāga on Consciousness Beyond Ancient India 45: In Good Taste: The Rasa Aesthetic Theory 46: Learn by Doing: Tantra 47: Looking East: Indian Influence on Greek Thought 48: The Buddha and I: Indian Influence on Islamic and European Thought 49: What Happened Next: Indian Philosophy After Dignāga

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-Universität München, 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.

The ideal introduction to Indian philosophy for someone new to the field. The notes and bibliography provide ample opportunity to delve deeper into the subject matter... I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

• 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 Jainas 34: We Beg to Differ: The Buddhists and Jainas 35: It All Depends: Nāgārjuna on Emptiness 36: Motion Denied: Nāgārjuna on Change 37: No Four Ways About It: Nāgārjuna's Tetralemma 38: Taking Perspective: The Jaina Theory of Standpoints 39: Well Qualified: The Jainas on Truth 40: Change of Mind: Vasubandhu and Yogācāra Buddhism 41: Who's Pulling Your Strings? Buddhaghosa on No-Self and Autonomy 42: Under Construction: Dignāga on Perception and Language 43: Follow the Evidence: Dignāga's Logic 44: Doors of Perception: Dignāga on Consciousness Beyond Ancient India 45: In Good Taste: The Rasa Aesthetic Theory 46: Learn by Doing: Tantra 47: Looking East: Indian Influence on Greek Thought 48: The Buddha and I: Indian Influence on Islamic and European Thought 49: What Happened Next: Indian Philosophy After Dignāga