Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind

Matthew MacKenzie is professor of philosophy at Colorado State University. MacKenzie specializes in Buddhist and Indian philosophy, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. His research takes a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary approach to questions of consciousness, selfhood, and embodiment.

Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind is focused, well-argued, scholarly, accessible, and worthy of discussion by others in the various fields in cognitive science, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, Buddhist studies, contemporary Indian philosophy. This material is very difficult to write about and it isn’t easy to convey it to scholars or the public; yet, Mackenzie’s writing style navigates the terrain in a powerful and inviting way.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction?On Comparative Philosophy?Overview of the Chapters1.Enacting Selves?No-Self?Buddhist Reductionism?Four Problems for Buddhist Reductionism?The Dependent Origination of Sentient Beings?Sentience and Subjectivity?Subjectivity and Self?Self-Making?Conclusion2.Luminosity?Luminosity?Self-Luminosity and Other-Luminosity?Dual-Aspect Reflexivism?Temporality?Dynamic Embodied Nondual Awareness3.Agency and Other Minds?Karma?Agentless Agency?Enactive Agency?Psychological Agency?Other Minds?Conclusion4.Enacting Worlds?The Co-Emergence of Self and World?Enacting Worlds?Enaction, Emptiness, and Realism?The Three Natures of Phenomena5.Cultivating Compassion?The Sa?saric Framework?Bodhicitta, Empathy, and Open Intersubjectivity?Meditative Concentration?The Four Point Mind TrainingoEquality of Self and OtheroThe Limits of Self-CherishingoThe Benefits of AltruismoExchange of Self and OtherConclusionBibliography