1. BOOK REVIEWS 2. Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons. By Mark Siderits. Ashgate, 2003. 231 pages $79.95. 3. Author Affiliations: University of Chicago
This self-styled essay in “fusion philosophy” should gain a wider hearing for the sophisticated reconstructions of Indian Buddhist arguments that Mark Siderits has developed in articles published over the last twenty years. This is as it should be. The book will, however, inevitably have a limited readership; although lucidly written, its idiom is very much that of analytic philosophy, and it will be tough going for readers without philosophical training. Moreover, this idiom tends to get the better of the Buddhist materials that inform the arguments, and it may not be clear to those unacquainted with Buddhist philosophy where (or even whether) Siderits’s arguments closely track particular Buddhist discussions. It is to be hoped, though, that these difficulties will not prevent the appreciation of this...
