Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness

Tradition and Dialogue

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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.
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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.
 Notes on Contributors
 Introduction

Part 1: Conceptualism and Nonconceptualism

 Introduction to Part 1

1 Knowing Blue: Ābhidharmika Accounts of the Immediacy of Sense Perception
 Robert H. Sharf

2 Nonconceptual Awareness in Yogācāra and Madhyamaka Thought
 John Spackman

3 Turning Earth to Gold: the Early Yogācāra 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 Mādhyamikas 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 *Svasaṃvitti-saṃvittiReconsidered
 Toru Funayama

8 Dharmapāla on the Cognition of Other Minds (paracittajñāna)
 Shinya Moriyama

Part 3: Mental Consciousness in East Asian Buddhism: MSF

 Introduction to Part 3

9 Mānasa-pratyakṣa as the Perception of Conventionally Real (prajñaptisat) Properties – Interpreting Dignāga’s mānasa-pratyakṣa 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
Advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in the areas of Philosophy (philosophy of mind and consciousness studies) and Buddhist Studies.
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Brill
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English
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x, 346 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440913

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