Allison Aitken
Biographic Data
| ID | 8657632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Aitken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison |
| FAMILY NAME | Aitken |
| SIGNATURE | AITKEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5355-2373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dharmakīrti on relations and persons
A Case Against Simple-mindedness
There’s a common line of reasoning which supposes that the phenomenal unity of conscious experience is grounded in a mind-like simple subject. To the contrary, Mādhyamika Buddhist philosophers beginning with Śrīgupta (seventh–eighth century) argue that any kind of mental simple is incoherent and thus metaphysically impossible. Lacking any unifying principle, the phenomenal unity of conscious experience is instead an unfounded illusion. In this pa…
The Truth about Śrīgupta’s Two Truths
Longchen Rabjampa (1308–64), scholar of the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma tradition, presents a novel doxographical taxonomy of the so-called Svātantrika branch of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy, which designates the Indian Mādhyamika Śrīgupta (c. 7th/8th century) as the exemplar of a Svātantrika sub-school according to which appearance and emptiness are metaphysically distinct. This paper compares Longchenpa’s characterization of this “distinct-appea…
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The Truth about Śrīgupta’s Two Truths
Longchen Rabjampa (1308–64), scholar of the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma tradition, presents a novel doxographical taxonomy of the so-called Svātantrika branch of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy, which designates the Indian Mādhyamika Śrīgupta (c. 7th/8th century) as the exemplar of a Svātantrika sub-school according to which appearance and emptiness are metaphysically distinct. This paper compares Longchenpa’s characterization of this “distinct-appea…
A Case Against Simple-mindedness
There’s a common line of reasoning which supposes that the phenomenal unity of conscious experience is grounded in a mind-like simple subject. To the contrary, Mādhyamika Buddhist philosophers beginning with Śrīgupta (seventh–eighth century) argue that any kind of mental simple is incoherent and thus metaphysically impossible. Lacking any unifying principle, the phenomenal unity of conscious experience is instead an unfounded illusion. In this pa…
Dharmakīrti on relations and persons
Indian and Buddhist Studies (3 works) · Buddhism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Buddhist philosophy (1 work) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)