5 papers in the library · 14 citations · publishing 2009-2022
March 14, 2022 Christian Coseru 4 citations
Nirvana is sometimes described as stopping the world – transcending what phenomenologists describe as the (conventional) life-world. This chapter examines the implications of cognitive attenuation in such meditative absorptions, raising philosophical and phenomenological questions about the ways examination of such states, and their neuroscientific underpinnings, may play a role in resolving...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science June 1, 2020 Christian Coseru
Abstract The problem of free will is associated with a specific and significant kind of control over our actions, which is understood primarily in the sense that we have the freedom to do otherwise or the capacity for self‐determination. Is Buddhism compatible with such a conception of free will? The aim of this article is to address three critical issues concerning the free will problem: (1)...
March 15, 2018 Christian Coseru 3 citations
This chapter considers the sheer amount of literature associated with the exploration of consciousness in Indian philosophy. It focuses on a range of methodological and conceptual issues, drawing on three main sources: the naturalist theories of mind of Nyaya and Vaisesika, the mainly phenomenological accounts of mental activity and consciousness of Abhidharma and Yogacara Buddhism, and the...
Oxford Handbooks Online June 2, 2016 Christian Coseru
In challenging the physicalist conception of consciousness advanced by Cārvāka materialists such as Bṛhaspati, the Buddhist philosopher Śāntarakṣita addresses a series of key issues about the nature of causality and the basis of cognition. This chapter considers whether causal accounts of generation for material bodies are adequate in explaining how conscious awareness comes to have the...
Asian Philosophy October 21, 2009 Christian Coseru 7 citations
In this paper I propose a naturalist account of the Buddhist epistemological discussion of svasa[mdot]vitti (‘self-awareness’, ‘self-cognition’) following similar attempts in the domains of phenomenology and analytic epistemology. First, I examine the extent to which work in naturalized epistemology and phenomenology, particularly in the areas of perception and intentionality, could be...