Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness

Mark Siderits, Ph.D. (1976, Yale), is retired Professor of Philosophy, Seoul National University. He has published widely on the intersection between Buddhist philosophy and analytic metaphysics, including Buddhist Philosophy and Personal Identity (Ashgate, 2015). Ching Keng, Ph.D. (2009, Harvard), is Associate Professor at National Taiwan University. His main interest is to explore how studies of Chinese Buddhist philosophical texts could contribute to a better understanding of Buddhist philosophy as a whole. John Spackman, Ph.D. (1996, Yale), is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College. His work focuses on contemporary philosophy of mind and its intersections with Buddhist philosophy. His publications include articles on nonconceptual experience and Madhyamaka philosophy.

 Notes on Contributors

 Introduction



Part 1: Conceptualism and Nonconceptualism



 Introduction to Part 1



1 Knowing Blue: Ābhidharmika Accounts of the Immediacy of Sense Perception

 Robert H. Sharf



2 Nonconceptual Awareness in Yogācāra and Madhyamaka Thought

 John Spackman



3 Turning Earth to Gold: the Early Yogācāra Understanding of Experience Following Non-conceptual Cognition

 Roy Tzohar



Part 2: Meta-cognition



 Introduction to Part 2



4 Whose Consciousness? Reflexivity and the Problem of Self-Knowledge

 Christian Coseru



5 Should Mādhyamikas Refute Subjectivity? Thoughts on what might be at stake in debates on self-awareness

 Dan Arnold



6 Self-Knowledge and Non-self

 Mark Siderits



7 The Genesis of *Svasaṃvitti-saṃvittiReconsidered

 Toru Funayama



8 Dharmapāla on the Cognition of Other Minds (paracittajñāna)

 Shinya Moriyama



Part 3: Mental Consciousness in East Asian Buddhism: MSF



 Introduction to Part 3



9 Mānasa-pratyakṣa as the Perception of Conventionally Real (prajñaptisat) Properties – Interpreting Dignāga’s mānasa-pratyakṣa based on Clues from Kuiji

 Ching Keng



10 Mental Consciousness and Its Objects

 Zhihua Yao



11 Vasubandhu’s Theory of Memory: a Reading based on the Chinese Commentaries

 Chen-kuo Lin



 Index