1 An Introduction to Conventional Truth ........................ 3
Guy Newland and Tom J.F. Tillemans
2 Taking Conventional Truth Seriously: Authority regarding
Deceptive Reality ........................................... 23
Jay L. Garfield
3 Prāsaṅgika Epistemology in Context .......................... 39
Sonam Thakchöe
4 Weighing the Butter, Levels of Explanation, and
Falsification: Models of the Conventional in Tsongkhapa's
Account of Madhyamaka ....................................... 57
Guy Martin Newland
5 Identifying the Object of Negation and the Status of
Conventional Truth: Why the dGag Bya Matters So Much to
Tibetan Mādhyamikas ......................................... 73
Jay I. Garfield and Sonam Thakchöe
6 Can a Mādhyamika Be a Skeptic? The Case of Patsab
Nyimadrak ................................................... 89
Georges Dreyfus
7 Madhyamaka and Classical Greek Skepticism .................. 115
Georges Dreyfus and Jay L. Garfield
8 The (Two) Truths about Truth ............................... 131
Graham Priest, Mark Siderits, and Tom J.F. Tillemans
9 How Far Can a Mādhyamika Buddhist Reform Conventional
Truth? Dismal Relativism, Fictionalism, Easy-Easy Truth,
and the Alternatives ....................................... 151
Tom J.F. Tillemans
10 Is Everything Connected to Everything Else? What the
Gopīs Know ................................................. 167
Mark Siderits
11 Carnap's Pragmatism and the Two Truths ..................... 181
Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka
12 The Merely Conventional Existence of the World ............. 189
Jan Westerhoff
13 Two Truths: Two Models ..................................... 213
Graham Priest
14 Ethics for Mādhyamikas ..................................... 221
Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka
References and Abbreviations .................................. 233
Index ......................................................... 245
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