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Essential necessity and apprehension: what does sahopalambhaniyama prove?
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All are invited to the following Philosophy colloquium talk on 27th January 2025 at 16:40 in AC04 LR303. Refreshments will be served.
Title: Essential necessity and apprehension: what does sahopalambhaniyama prove?
Speaker: Serena Saccone
Abstract: The term sahopalambhaniyama, necessary/invariable co-apprehension, is related to a pivotal argument within the Dharmaki脤鈥瀝tian tradition intended to prove mere-cognition (惫颈箩苍脤茠补辫迟颈尘补脤鈥瀟谤补迟补脤鈥�), in the specific sense of the non-difference between a cognition and its object. The locus classicus for such an argument is in 笔谤补尘补脤鈥瀗脤拢补惫颈苍颈蝉脤聛肠补测补&苍产蝉辫;1.54ab by Dharmaki脤鈥瀝ti. In that work, the sahopalambhaniyama is also related to the establishment of self-awareness of cognitions, insofar as they are verily devoid of an object and a subject. At the same time, some of the debates occurring in the 8th century seem to suggest at least the possibility of interpreting it in different ways. My paper aims at discussing some of the points emerging from an analysis of the 笔谤补尘补脤鈥瀗脤拢补惫颈苍颈蝉脤聛肠补测补&苍产蝉辫;itself, as well as the perspectives from the *叠补脤鈥瀐测补脤鈥沥迟丑补蝉颈诲诲丑颈办补脤鈥沥颈办补脤鈥� by S脤聛ubhagupta and the 罢补迟迟惫补蝉补尘脤拢驳谤补丑补辫补苍脤茠箩颈办补脤鈥�&苍产蝉辫;by Kamalas脤聛i脤鈥瀕a.
Speaker Bio: Serena Saccone is an Associate Professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” She worked for 6 years at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Her main area of research is the intellectual history of Buddhism, focusing on South Asian authors from the early medieval period, with a specific interest in epistemology, logic, and soteriology, as well as their interconnections. Saccone’s monograph, On the Nature of Things (2018), concerns the internal Buddhist debate on cognitions and their object in the eighth century. Her second book, Tantra and Prama脤鈥瀗脤拢a. Studies in the Sa脤鈥瀝aman脤茠jari脤鈥� (2023), co-authored with Pe脤聛ter-Da脤聛niel Sza脤聛nto脤聛, deals with the interrelationship between Tantric Buddhism and the Digna脤鈥瀏a-Dharmaki脤鈥瀝tian tradition of logic and epistemology. She has recently written also on the use of logic in scriptural commentaries.