Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind: A Constructive Engagement: Matthew MacKenzie: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind

A Constructive Engagement

Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind

A Constructive Engagement

Description

In 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 engage 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.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
?On Comparative Philosophy
?Overview of the Chapters
1.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
2.Luminosity
?Luminosity
?Self-Luminosity and Other-Luminosity
?Dual-Aspect Reflexivism
?Temporality
?Dynamic Embodied Nondual Awareness
3.Agency and Other Minds
?Karma
?Agentless Agency
?Enactive Agency
?Psychological Agency
?Other Minds
?Conclusion
4.Enacting Worlds
?The Co-Emergence of Self and World
?Enacting Worlds
?Enaction, Emptiness, and Realism
?The Three Natures of Phenomena
5.Cultivating Compassion
?The Sa?saric Framework
?Bodhicitta, Empathy, and Open Intersubjectivity
?Meditative Concentration
?The Four Point Mind Training
oEquality of Self and Other
oThe Limits of Self-Cherishing
oThe Benefits of Altruism
oExchange of Self and Other
Conclusion
Bibliography

Product details

Published	25 Mar 2024
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	196
ISBN	9781538160145
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	230 x 151 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Matthew MacKenzie

Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind is focused, well-argued, scholarly, accessible, and worthy of discussion by others in the various fields in cognitive science, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, Buddhist studies, contemporary Indian philosophy. This material is very difficult to write about and it isn’t easy to convey it to scholars or the public; yet, Mackenzie’s writing style navigates the terrain in a powerful and inviting way.

Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, San Jose State University