Buddhist philosophy: a comparative approach

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Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Editor s Introduction 1 Steven M. Emmanuel 1 Buddhist Philosophy as a Way of Life: The Spiritual Exercises of Tsongkhapa 11 Christopher W. Gowans 2 The Other Side of Realism: Panpsychism and Yog..!c..!ra 29 Douglas Duckworth 3 Emergentist Naturalism in Early Buddhism and Deweyan Pragmatism 45 John J. Holder 4 Metaphysical Dependence, East and West 63 Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest 5 Metaphysics and Metametaphysics with Buddhism: The Lay of the Land 87 Tom J.F. Tillemans 6 Are Reasons Causally Relevant for Action? Dharmak..(c)rti and the Embodied Cognition Paradigm 109 Christian Coseru 7 Zen s Nonegocentric Perspectivism 123 Bret W. Davis 8 Rhetoric of Uncertainty in Zen Buddhism and Western Literary Modernism 145 Steven Heine 9 From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a Cross(c)\Cultural Cognitive Science 165 Jake H. Davis and Evan Thompson 10 Embodying Change: Buddhism and Feminist Philosophy 189 Erin A. McCarthy 11 Buddhist Modernism and Kant on Enlightenment 205 David Cummiskey 12 Compassion and Rebirth: Some Ethical Implications 221 John Powers Further Reading 239 Index 243