Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness

Itay Shani is Professor in the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Susanne Kathrin Beiweis is Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

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Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction, Susanne K. Beiweis and Itay Shani (both of Sun Tay-sen University, China)

Part I: Consciousness and Ultimate Reality

1. On the Identification of Being and Consciousness in Advaita Vedanta, Wolfgang Fasching (University of Vienna, Austria)
2. Cosmopsychism and Non-Sankaran Traditions of Hindu Non-dualism: In Search of a Fertile Connection, Itay Shani (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

Part II: Emergence and Mental Causation

3. Consciousness, Physicalism, and the Problem of Mental Causation, Christian Coseru (College of Charleston, USA)
4. Abhinavagupta’s Svatantryavada: Mental Causality, Emergentism and Intuitionist Mathematics, Loriliai Biernacki (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
5. Karma and Mental Causation: A Nikaya Buddhist Perspective, George Wong Soo Lam (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore)

Part III: Realism, Idealism, and Panpsychism

6. Consciousness as the Fundamental Reality of the Universe: A Master Argument for Buddhist Idealism, Alex Watson (Ashoka University, Delhi, India)
7. Huayan Buddhism’s Conceptions of the Realness of Reality: A Transformation from Subjective Idealism into Holistic Realism, JeeLoo Liu (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
8. Converging Outlooks? Contemporary Panpsychism and Chinese Natural Philosophy, Pierfrancesco Basile (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Part IV: Illusionism
9. The Magic of Consciousness: Sculpting an Alternative Illusionism, Bryce Huebner (Georgetown University, USA), Eyal Aviv (George Washington University, USA), and Sonam Kachru (University of Virginia, USA)
10. Cognitive Illusion and Immediate Experience: Perspectives from Buddhist Philosophy, Jay L. Garfield (Smith College, USA)
11. Interrogating Illusionism, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya (San Jose State University, USA)

Index