Buddhist philosophy of consciousness : tradition and dialogue
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Buddhist philosophy of consciousness : tradition and dialogue
(Value inquiry book series, v. 354)(Cognitive Science)
Brill Rodopi, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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 (paracittajnana)
Shinya Moriyama
Part 3: Mental Consciousness in East Asian Buddhism: MSF
Introduction to Part 3
9 Manasa-pratyaksa as the Perception of Conventionally Real (prajnaptisat) 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
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