Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Repetti, Rick

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview & analysis of the state of the field of the philosophy of meditation. It will serve as textbook reading in courses in philosophy of mind, consciousness, selfhood/personhood, metaphysics, or phenomenology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000575699
• Artikelnr.: 63602485

Autorenporträt

Rick Repetti is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and author of four books, including Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will (Routledge 2018), and dozens of articles and chapters on meditation and free will. He is an APPA-certified philosophical counselor, podcaster, and 4th-Dan Shotokan blackbelt, and has taught meditation and yoga since the mid-1970s.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Is meditation philosophy?

PART I: Meditation and philosophy

1 Skeptical doubts about meditation as philosophy

2 The philosophy of meditation: The spoken Tao

3 Meditation and the paradox of self-consciousness

4 The relation between meditation and analytic philosophy

5 Engaging metacognitive practices: On the uses (and possible abuse) of meditation in philosophy

6 Differences and interaction between meditative cultivation and philosophical thought/insight in early and Theravada Buddhism

7 The necessity of meditation in Upanisadic turiya and Yogacara amala vijñana

PART II: Meditation and epistemology

8 Meditation, nonconceptuality, and the reflexive structure of consciousness

9 The experience of presence: Meditation and the nature of consciousness

10 Meditation as cultivating knowledge-how

11 How meditation changes the brain: A neurophilosophical and pragmatic account

12 How a philosophy of meditation can explore the deep connections between mindfulness and contemplative wisdom

13 Psychedelics and meditation: A neurophilosophical perspective

PART III: Meditation and metaphysics

14 Philosophy without a philosopher: Anatman as a special case of dependent arising

15 Meditative experience and the plasticity of self-experience

16 The self: What does mindfulness meditation reveal about it?

17 Control, anxiety, and the progressive detachment from the self

PART IV: Meditation and values

18 Is there a global norm in favor of global attentiveness?

19 Meditation in the context of a naturalized eudaimonic Buddhism

PART V: Meditation and phenomenology

20 The phenomenology of meditation: An Advaita approach

21 What is meditation good for?: Reflections on the use of meditation in the study of consciousness

22 Bare attention, dereification, and meta-awareness in mindfulness: A phenomenological critique

23 Consciousness, content, and cognitive attenuation: A neurophenomenological perspective

PART VI: Meditation in Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions

24 Prosochê as Stoic mindfulness

25 The philosophical presuppositions of Christian meditation: Theo-philosophical anthropology and its corresponding participatory ontology

26 The end of man: Philosophical consummation in Jewish meditative tradition

Rezensionen

"Rick Repetti has invited the leading scholars of the philosophy of meditation to reflect on the significance of this practice. Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation is the most extensive and informative collection of articles on this topic in print. This Handbook is the first stop for anyone interested in the philosophical issues raised by meditation practice." -- Jay L. Garfield, Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities, Smith College and the Harvard Divinity School, USA

"Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation is first of its kind. Rick Repetti, a leader in the field, has edited this excellent collection of original articles from experts with diverse perspectives, masterfully arranging them into themes including phenomenology, metaphysics, epistemology, values, and religion, relating each to the central hypothesis that there is a philosophy of meditation." -- Miri Albahari, Philosophy, University of Western Australia

"This volume includes important new essays from prominent experts on Buddhist thought and from key contributors to the scholarly conversation about meditation. It contains careful, rigorous work from a variety of perspectives, drawing on relevant research in psychology as well as Asian textual traditions. The book will be valuable to philosophers, psychologists, and scholars of Asian religions. It will also be helpful to anyone looking for insights into what meditation is and what it can do for us, both as seekers of knowledge and as suffering humans." -- Charles Goodman, Binghamton University, USA

"The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation is an outstanding contribution to the establishment of the academic subfield of the philosophy of meditation. Edited and introduced by Rick Repetti, it comprises 26 excellent chapters by a group of experts that integrate various elements from the West, ancient and modern, continental and analytic, as well as from the East, especially Indian traditions, although there are also references to Tibetan and East Asian traditions. [...] anyone interested in the philosophy of meditation will undoubtedly be inspired by a careful reading of the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation, which is a meaningful contribution to establishing this subfield within the academe." -- Francisco Figueroa Medina, Kyoto University, Japan. Journal of Contemplative Studies