Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind

This book is the first to fully engage embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended (4E) accounts of mind with Buddhist philosophy, drawing on and integrating enactivism and Buddhist thought. It deepens the dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and 4E philosophy of mind and phenomenology, engaging core issues in the philosophy of mind through this cross-cultural exchange. Indian philosophers developed sophisticated accounts of mind, self, cognition, perception, and embodiment. As a work of cross-cultural philosophy, the book investigates mind and experience in dialogue with Indian and Western thinkers, articulating and defending a dynamic, non-substantialist, and embodied account of experience, subjectivity, and self.

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Abstract

In the last 30 years, embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended (4E) accounts of mind and experience have flourished. A more cosmopolitan and pluralistic approach to the philosophy of mind has also emerged, drawing on analytic, phenomenological, pragmatist, and non-Western sources and traditions. This is the first book to fully engages the 4E approach and Buddhist philosophy, drawing on and integrating the intersection of enactivism and Buddhist thought. This book deepens and extends the dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and 4E philosophy of mind and phenomenology. It engages with core issues in the philosophy of mind broadly construed in and through the dialogue between Buddhism and enactivism. Indian philosophers developed and defended philosophically sophisticated and phenomenologically rich accounts of mind, self, cognition, perception, embodiment, and more. As a work of cross-cultural philosophy, the book investigates the nature of mind and experience in dialogue with Indian and Western thinkers. On the basis of this cross-traditional dialogue, the book articulates and defends a dynamic, non-substantialist, and embodied account of experience, subjectivity, and self.