can be found on pp. 391-2 of the first volume of the Dover edition (New York, 1959). It is hard to find the Indian source of the cosmological theory that the earth rests on an elephant and this on a tortoise (and the tortoise perhaps on something unknown, or nothing at all, or most intriguing, on adownwards infinite column of further tortoises). The earliest mention of this theory traceable so far comes from a letter written by a Jesuit missionary in India in 1599. Up to now, I have not been able to find any Indian text describing a stacked elephant-tortoise support.

A clear discussion of Vasubandhu’s arguments about the reality of matter is in Matthew Kapstein’s 'Mereological Considerations in Vasubandhu’s “Proof of Idealism”’ reprinted in his

Reason’s Traces (Wisdom, 2001), pp. 181-204. The same issues are taken up later in Immanuel Kant’s so-called second antinomy, on which see James van Cleve, 'Reflections on Kant’s Second Antinomy’,

Synthese,

47(3) (1981): 481-94.

The best introduction to Berkeley’s thought is still his very lively set of

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous . See George Berkeley,

Knowledge and Three Dialogues,

edited by Howard Robinson (Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 97-208.

A tear-free introduction to key quantum mechanical concepts and a clear comparison of the various interpretations of the quantum mechanical formalism can be found in Nick Herbert’s

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