Self, No Self?

Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions
Herausgeber: Siderits, Mark; Zahavi, Dan; Thompson, Evan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Self, No Self? is the first book of its kind. It brings together leading philosophical scholars of the Indian and Tibetan traditions with leading Western philosophers of mind and phenomenologists to explore issues about consciousness and selfhood from these multiple perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780199672011
• ISBN-10: 0199672016
• Artikelnr.: 36648597

Autorenporträt

Mark Siderits is Professor of Philosophy at Seoul National University. He received his BA from University of Hawaii and his Ph.D. from Yale University. His work is situated in the intersection between analytic metaphysics and classical Indian philosophy. He is the author of Indian Philosophy of Language (Kluwer, 1991), Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons (Ashgate, 2003), and Buddhism as Philosophy (Hackett, 2007). Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He received his B.A. from Amherst College in Asian Studies and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. He is the author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Harvard University Press, 2007) and Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception (Routledge Press, 1995). He is also co-author of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (MIT Press, 1991). Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He obtained his Ph.D. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1994 and his Dr.phil. (Habilitation) from University of Copenhagen in 1999. He was elected member of Institut International de Philosophie in 2001 and of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2007. He has served as president of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology in the years 2001-2007, and is currently co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. In his systematic work, Zahavi has mainly been investigating the nature of selfhood, self-consciousness and intersubjectivity.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson, Dan Zahavi: Introduction
* 2: Joel Krueger: The Who and How of Experience
* 3: Dan Zahavi: The Experiential Self: objections and clarifications
* 4: Miri Albahari: Nirvana and Ownerless consciousness
* 5: Georges Dreyfus: Self and Subjectivity: A Middle Way Approach
* 6: Evan Thompson: Self-No-Self? Memory and Reflexive Awareness
* 7: Jonardon Ganeri: Subjectivity, Selfhood and the Use of the Word
'I'
* 8: Wolfgang Fasching: 'I am of the nature of Seeing':
Phenomenological Reflections on the Indian Notion of
Witness-Consciousness
* 9: Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad: Situating the Elusive Self of Advaita
Vedãnta
* 10: Matthew MacKenzie: Enacting the Self: Buddhist and Enactivist
Approaches to the Emergence of the Self
* 11: Galen Strawson: Radical self-awareness
* 12: Mark Siderits: Buddhas as Zombies: A Buddhist Reduction of
Subjectivity
* Notes on Contributors
* Index