Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness: Tradition and Dialogue

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Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness explores a variety of different approaches to the study of consciousness developed by Buddhist philosophers in classical India and China. It addresses questions that are still being investigated in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness: Tradition and Dialogue Copyright Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Conceptualism and Nonconceptualism 1 Knowing Blue: Abhidharmika Accounts of the Immediacy of Sense Perception 2 Nonconceptual Cognition in Yogacara and Madhyamaka Thought 3 Turning Earth to Gold: The Early Yogacara Understanding of Experience Following Non-conceptual Cognition Part 2: Meta-cognition Intoduction to Part 2 4 Whose Consciousness? Reflexivity and the Problem of Self-Knowledge 5 Should Madhyamikas Refute Subjectivity? Thoughts on What Might be at Stake in Debates on Self-awareness 6 Self-Knowledge and Non-self 7 The Genesis of *Svasa?vitti-sa?vitti Reconsidered 8 Dharmapala on the Cognition of Other Minds (paracittajñana) Part 3: Mental Consciousness in East Asian Buddhism: MSF 9 Manasa-pratyak?a as the Perception of Conventionally Real (prajñaptisat) Properties - Interpreting Dignaga's manasa-pratyak?a Based on Clues From Kuiji 10 Mental Consciousness and Its Objects 11 Vasubandhu's Theory of Memory: a Reading based on the Chinese Commentaries Index