Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness: Tradition and Dialogue

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44089-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 354, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book

Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness brings Buddhist voices to the study of consciousness. This book explores a variety of different Buddhist approaches to consciousness that developed out of the Buddhist theory of non-self. Topics taken up in these investigations include: how we are able to cognize our own cognitions; whether all conscious states involve conceptualization; whether distinct forms of cognition can operate simultaneously in a single mental stream; whether non-existent entities can serve as intentional objects; and does consciousness have an intrinsic nature, or can it only be characterized functionally? These questions have all featured in recent debates in consciousness studies. The answers that Buddhist philosophers developed to such questions are worth examining just because they may represent novel approaches to questions about consciousness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siderits, Mark

Keng, Ching

Spackman, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Conceptualism and Nonconceptualism

Introduction to Part 1

1 Knowing Blue: Abhidharmika Accounts of the Immediacy of Sense Perception

Robert H. Sharf

2 Nonconceptual Awareness in Yogacara and Madhyamaka Thought

John Spackman

3 Turning Earth to Gold: the Early Yogacara Understanding of Experience Following Non-conceptual Cognition

Roy Tzohar

Part 2: Meta-cognition

Introduction to Part 2

4 Whose Consciousness? Reflexivity and the Problem of Self-Knowledge

Christian Coseru

5 Should Madhyamikas Refute Subjectivity? Thoughts on what might be at stake in debates on self-awareness

Dan Arnold

6 Self-Knowledge and Non-self

Mark Siderits

7 The Genesis of *Svasamvitti-samvittiReconsidered

Toru Funayama

8 Dharmapala on the Cognition of Other Minds (paracittajñana)

Shinya Moriyama

Part 3: Mental Consciousness in East Asian Buddhism: MSF

Introduction to Part 3

9 Manasa-pratyaksa as the Perception of Conventionally Real (prajñaptisat) Properties – Interpreting Dignaga’s manasa-pratyaksa based on Clues from Kuiji

Ching Keng

10 Mental Consciousness and Its Objects

Zhihua Yao

11 Vasubandhu’s Theory of Memory: a Reading based on the Chinese Commentaries

Chen-kuo Lin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Siderits, Ph.D. (1976, Yale), is retired Professor of Philosophy, Seoul National University. He has published widely on the intersection between Buddhist philosophy and analytic metaphysics, including Buddhist Philosophy and Personal Identity (Ashgate, 2015).

Ching Keng, Ph.D. (2009, Harvard), is Associate Professor at National Taiwan University. His main interest is to explore how studies of Chinese Buddhist philosophical texts could contribute to a better understanding of Buddhist philosophy as a whole.

John Spackman, Ph.D. (1996, Yale), is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College. His work focuses on contemporary philosophy of mind and its intersections with Buddhist philosophy. His publications include articles on nonconceptual experience and Madhyamaka philosophy.