Perceiving reality: consciousness, intentionality, and cognition in Buddhist philosophy

New York: Oxford University Press (2012)
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Abstract

This book examines the epistemic function of perception and the relation between language and conceptual 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.

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Naturalizing Buddhist Epistemology

This chapter examines the main presuppositions that are implicit in any scholarly endeavour concerned with the analysis and interpretation of non-Western philosophical traditions: the method and style of argumentation, the theoretical intuitions that inform our argumentative strategies, an... see more

In Defense of Epistemological Optimism

This chapter offers a justification for taking Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla as representative figures of the Buddhist epistemological project, and raises certain questions about methodology in the study of Non-Western philosophical traditions. One of the key issues addressed is whether ther... see more

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