Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics and Morality (Coseru 2023)

Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics and Morality (Coseru 2023)

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Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of “fusion” or “confluence philosophy", a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights.

Exemplifying the many virtues of the confluence approach, this collection of essays covers all core areas of Buddhist philosophy, as well as topics and disputes in contemporary Western philosophy relevant to its study. They consider in particular the ways in which questions concerning personal identity figure in debates about agency, cognition, causality, ontological foundations, foundational truths, and moral cultivation.

Most of these essays engage Siderits’ work directly, building on his pathbreaking ideas and interpretations. Many deal with issues that have become a common staple in philosophical engagements with traditions outside the West. Their variety and breadth bear testimony to the legacy of Siderits’ impact in shaping the contemporary conversation in Buddhist philosophy and its reverberations in mainstream philosophy, giving readers a clear sense of the remarkable scope of his work. (Source: Springer)

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Coseru, Christian, ed. Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics and Morality. Essays in Honor of Mark Siderits. Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures 36. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Publishing, 2023.

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Can We Know Whether Śāntideva was a Consequentialist? (Goodman 2023)

This paper, part of a collection of essays in honor of Mark Siderits, defends a consequentialist interpretation of Śāntideva.

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• Introduction1
  • Christian Coseru

• Part I Mind
• But Aren’t We Conscious? A Buddhist Reflection on the Hard Problem19
  • Georges Dreyfus

• Reasons and Conscious Persons35
  • Christian Coseru

• Descartes and the Buddha—a rapprochement?63
  • Galen Strawson

• The Imperfect Reality of Persons87
  • Jonardon Ganeri

• Eliminating Selves, Reducing Persons105
  • Monima Chadha and Shaun Nichols

• The Curious Case of the Conscious Corpse: A Medieval Buddhist Thought Experiment121
  • Robert H. Sharf

• How Can Buddhists Account for the Continuity of Mind After Death?141
  • Jan Westerhoff

• What’s in a Concept? Conceptualizing the Nonconceptual in Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science165
  • Evan Thompson

• On Necessary Connection in Mental Causation––Nāgārjuna’s Master Argument Against the Sautrāntika-Vasubandhu: A Mādhyamika Response to Mark Siderits211
  • Sonam Thakchoe

• Part II Metaphysics
• A Post-Reductionist Buddhism?231
  • Matthew MacKenzie

• Madhyamaka, Ultimate Reality, and Ineffability247
  • Jay L. Garfeld and Graham Priest

• The Real According to Madhyamaka, Or: Thoughts on Whether Mark Siderits and I Really Disagree259
  • Dan Arnold

• Anti-Realism and Realism About the Past: A Present for Mark Siderits283
  • Arindam Chakrabarti

• Buddhist Shipping Containers295
  • Koji Tanaka

• Finite and Infinite: On Not Making ‘Them’ Different Enough307
  • Rupert Read and Christian Greiffenhagen

• Part III Epistemology
• Mark Siderits on Anumāna327
  • Shoryu Katsura

• Buddhist Reductionism, Fictionalism, and Expressibility345
  • Laura P. Guerrero

• The Presupposition Strategy and the Two Truths363
  • John Spackman

• Part IV Morality
• Ideas and Ethical Formation: Confessions of a Buddhist-Platonist387
  • Amber Carpenter

• Self-Cultivation Philosophy as Fusion Philosophy: An Interpretation of Buddhist Moral Thought417
  • Christopher W. Gowans

• Can We Know Whether Śāntideva Was a Consequentialist?437
  • Charles Goodman

• Selfhood and Resentment459
  • Rick Repetti

• Publications of Mark Siderits477
• Index483

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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