Chapter 1 Self-Sceptical Ethics and Selfless Morality: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Overview

Chapter 3 Detachment in Buddhist and Stoic Ethics: Ataraxia and Apatheia and Equanimity

Chapter 4 Skepticism and Religious Practice in Sextus and Nāgārjuna

Chapter 5 Spinoza Through the Prism of Later ‘East-West’ Exchanges: Analogues of Buddhist Themes in the Ethics and the Works of Early Spinozists

Chapter 6 Hume as a Western Mādhyamika: The Case from Ethics

Chapter 7 Anattā and Ethics: Kantian and Buddhist Themes

Chapter 8 The Contingency of Willing: A Vijñānavāda Critique of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

Chapter 9 Selfless Care? Heidegger and anattā

Chapter 10 Echoes of Anattā and Buddhist Ethics in William James and Bertrand Russell

Chapter 11 Altruism in the Charnel Ground: Śāntideva and Parfit on Anātman, Reductionism and Benevolence

Chapter 12 The Ethics of Interconnectedness: Charles Taylor, No-Self, and Buddhism

Chapter 13 Variations on Anātman: Buddhist Themes in Deep Ecology and in Future-Directed Environmental Ethics