Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics

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