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Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy

 
Christian Coseru (Author)
Synopsis

What turns the continuous flow of experience into perceptually distinct objects? Can our verbal descriptions unambiguously capture what it is like to see, hear, or feel? How might we reason about the testimony that perception alone discloses? Christian Coseru proposes a rigorous and highly original way to answer these questions by developing a framework for understanding perception as a mode of apprehension that is intentionally constituted, pragmatically oriented, and causally effective. By engaging with recent discussions in phenomenology and analytic philosophy of mind, but also by drawing on the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, Coseru offers a sustained argument that Buddhist philosophers, in particular those who follow the tradition of inquiry initiated by Dignga and Dharmakrti, have much to offer when it comes to explaining why epistemological disputes about the evidential role of perceptual experience cannot satisfactorily be resolved without taking into account the structure of our cognitive awareness.

Perceiving Reality examines the function of perception and its relation to attention, language, and discursive thought, and provides new ways of conceptualizing the Buddhist defense of the reflexivity thesis of consciousness-namely, that each cognitive event is to be understood as involving a pre-reflective implicit awareness of its own occurrence. Coseru advances an innovative approach to Buddhist philosophy of mind in the form of phenomenological naturalism, and moves beyond comparative approaches to philosophy by emphasizing the continuity of concerns between Buddhist and Western philosophical accounts of the nature of perceptual content and the character of perceptual consciousness.

Contents: 1. Introduction: taking the structure of awareness seriously. 2. Naturalizing Buddhist epistemology. 3. Sensation and the empirical consciousness. 4. Perception, conception and language. 5. An encyclopedic and compassionate setting for Buddhist epistemology. 6. Perception as an epistemic modality. 7. Foundationalism and the phenomenology of perception. 8. Perception, self-awareness and intentionality. 9. In defense of epistemological optimism. Bibliography.

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Bibliographic information

Title Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy
Format Softcover
Date published: 31.12.2015
Edition 1st. ed.
Language: English
isbn 9780190253110
length 384p.,