3 papers in the library · publishing 2023
February 8, 2023 Shilpa Ashok Pandit
The greatest tragicomedy in the human enterprise, esp. in psychology, is the challenges in defining the philosophies of mind and consciousness. Euro-American philosophies assume that the philosophy of mind is the philosophy of consciousness. Vedānta, which is perhaps the only authentic philosophy of consciousness and not a philosophy of mind assumes that mind is a particular process through...
February 8, 2023 Shilpa Ashok Pandit
Consciousness is experienced as embodied in the human experience. The chapter disabuses the notions that consciousness in Indian psychology is otherworldly and, therefore, disembodied. Indeed, IKS presents a nuanced conceptualization of three bodies. These three bodies are also seen in Buddhist texts. One of the three bodies is the physical body; the rest are the bodies in consciousness. The...
February 8, 2023 Shilpa Ashok Pandit
There is substantial literature on cognition, and indeed, it is conventional to assume that consciousness and cognitive processes are co-determinate. The question that Indian psychology asked millennia ago is more radical – Do we see the reality as it is? Without getting into disciplinary siloes of metaphysics and philosophy, this question is central to cognitive psychology. Human cognition can...