Introduction

Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati, and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein, and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls non-realism.

Overview of Non-Realism

This is the view that an independent, external world must be assumed if the features of cognition are to be explained, but that it cannot be proved that there is such a world, independently of an appeal to cognition itself.

Context and Arguments

This position is constructed against idealist denials of externality, realist arguments for an independent world, and the skeptical denial of the coherence of cognition.