Project

Indian realism from contemporary perspective

Code
01D08913
Looptijd
01-11-2013 → 31-10-2019
Financiering
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Trefwoorden
categorieën van zijn tijd Indische filosofie metafysica ruimte geest-lichaam problematiek persoonlijke identiteit causaliteit vergelijkende filosofie
 
Projectomschrijving

The research will focus on comparative philosophy, it will combine contemporary western metaphysics with the Indian metaphysics of the Nyaya-Vaisesika school. The four main points of interest are: 1. categories of being, 2. space and time and 3. the mind-body connection and personal identity.