Description
Book SynopsisIn the last 30 years, embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended (4E) accounts of mind and experience have flourished. A more cosmopolitan and pluralistic approach to the philosophy of mind has also emerged, drawing on analytic, phenomenological, pragmatist, and non-Western sources and traditions. This is the first book to fully engages the 4E approach and Buddhist philosophy, drawing on and integrating the intersection of enactivism and Buddhist thought.
This book deepens and extends the dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and 4E philosophy of mind and phenomenology. It engages with core issues in the philosophy of mind broadly construed in and through the dialogue between Buddhism and enactivism. Indian philosophers developed and defended philosophically sophisticated and phenomenologically rich accounts of mind, self, cognition, perception, embodiment, and more. As a work of cross-cultural philosophy, the book investigates the nature of mind and experience in dialogue with Indian and Western thinkers. On the basis of this cross-traditional dialogue, the book articulates and defends a dynamic, non-substantialist, and embodied account of experience, subjectivity, and self.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
- On Comparative Philosophy
- Overview of the Chapters
- Enacting Selves
- No-Self
- Buddhist Reductionism
- Four Problems for Buddhist Reductionism
- The Dependent Origination of Sentient Beings
- Sentience and Subjectivity
- Subjectivity and Self
- Self-Making
- Conclusion
- Luminosity
- Luminosity
- Self-Luminosity and Other-Luminosity
- Dual-Aspect Reflexivism
- Temporality
- Dynamic Embodied Nondual Awareness
- Agency and Other Minds
- Karma
- Agentless Agency
- Enactive Agency
- Psychological Agency
- Other Minds
- Conclusion
- Enacting Worlds
- The Co-Emergence of Self and World
- Enacting Worlds
- Enaction, Emptiness, and Realism
- The Three Natures of Phenomena
- Cultivating Compassion
- The Saṃsāric Framework
- Bodhicitta, Empathy, and Open Intersubjectivity
- Meditative Concentration
- The Four Point Mind Training
- Equality of Self and Other
- The Limits of Self-Cherishing
- The Benefits of Altruism
- Exchange of Self and Other
Conclusion
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