Re-interpretating the Logic of Emptiness: toward an East Asian network of Analytic Asian Philosophy

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370017
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Deguchi Yasuo 京都大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (20314073)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 空の思想 / 空の論理 / 非古典論理 / 分析アジア哲学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The logic of emptiness is the conceptual and logical structure of philosophy of emptiness of Mahayana Buddhism. This research project aimed to reformulate the logic of emptiness in terms of contemporary non-classical logic so as to revive the philosophy of emptiness as a cogent and viable theoretical option for the contemporary philosophical debates. In particular, concepts such as ‘middle’ and ‘provision’ of Sanlun school of Chinese Buddhism and absolutely contradictory self-identity of the later Nishida are analyzed and reconstructed in the light of a three valued paraconsistent system. As one of the pioneering attempts of Analytic Asian Philosophy, a new field of contemporary philosophy, this project also tried to construct its international research network.

Free Research Field

哲学