Buddhist Philosophy

STEVEN M. EMMANUEL is Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College, USA. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Concept of Revelation (1995) and editor of A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), The Blackwell Guide to the Modern Philosophers: From Descartes to Nietzsche (Wiley Blackwell, 2001), and Modern Philosophy: An Anthology (2002).

• Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments xiAbbreviations xiiiEditor’s Introduction 1Steven M. Emmanuel1 Buddhist Philosophy as a Way of Life: The Spiritual Exercises of Tsongkhapa 11Christopher W. Gowans2 The Other Side of Realism: Panpsychism and Yog¨¡c¨¡ra 29Douglas Duckworth3 Emergentist Naturalism in Early Buddhism and Deweyan Pragmatism 45John J. Holder4 Metaphysical Dependence, East and West 63Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest5 Metaphysics and Metametaphysics with Buddhism: The Lay of the Land 87Tom J.F. Tillemans6 Are Reasons Causally Relevant for Action? Dharmak¨©rti and the Embodied Cognition Paradigm 109Christian Coseru7 Zen’s Nonegocentric Perspectivism 123Bret W. Davis8 Rhetoric of Uncertainty in Zen Buddhism and Western Literary Modernism 145Steven Heine9 From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a Cross©\Cultural Cognitive Science 165Jake H. Davis and Evan Thompson10 Embodying Change: Buddhism and Feminist Philosophy 189Erin A. McCarthy11 Buddhist Modernism and Kant on Enlightenment 205David Cummiskey12 Compassion and Rebirth: Some Ethical Implications 221John PowersFurther Reading 239Index 243