Associate Professor of Religion, Amherst College

This book will be a major contribution to scholarship in Buddhist Studies, as well as to the discipline of moral psychology more generally. The scholarship is impeccable, the attention to canonical material and secondary literature in Buddhist Studies as well as to relevant work in Western philosophy and social theory is meticulous. The book is rich in hermeneutical and philosophical insight, carefully argued, and written with uncommon perspicuity, grace and even humor I would not be surprised if it were to be recognized as one of the most significant recent contributions to Buddhist philosophy.

• Table of Contents ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Chapter One: Constructing Experience: Intention in the Suttas ; Chapter Two: The Work of Intention: Mental Life in the Abhidhamma ; Chapter Three: Culpability and Disciplinary Culture in the Vinaya ; Chapter Four: Making Actions Intelligible: Intention and Mind in Stories ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index

Associate Professor of Religion, Amherst College

This book will be a major contribution to scholarship in Buddhist Studies, as well as to the discipline of moral psychology more generally. The scholarship is impeccable, the attention to canonical material and secondary literature in Buddhist Studies as well as to relevant work in Western philosophy and social theory is meticulous. The book is rich in hermeneutical and philosophical insight, carefully argued, and written with uncommon perspicuity, grace and even humor I would not be surprised if it were to be recognized as one of the most significant recent contributions to Buddhist philosophy.

• Table of Contents ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Chapter One: Constructing Experience: Intention in the Suttas ; Chapter Two: The Work of Intention: Mental Life in the Abhidhamma ; Chapter Three: Culpability and Disciplinary Culture in the Vinaya ; Chapter Four: Making Actions Intelligible: Intention and Mind in Stories ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index