This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview & analysis of the state of the field of the philosophy of meditation. It will serve as textbook reading in courses in philosophy of mind, consciousness, selfhood/personhood, metaphysics, or phenomenology.
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Rick Repetti is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and author of four books, including Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will (Routledge 2018), and dozens of articles and chapters on meditation and free will. He is an APPA-certified philosophical counselor, podcaster, and 4th-Dan Shotokan blackbelt, and has taught meditation and yoga since the mid-1970s.
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This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the state of the field of the philosophy of meditation and engages primarily in the philosophical assessment of the merits of meditation practices.
This Handbook unites novel and original scholarship from 28 leading Asian and Western philosophers, scientists, theologians, and other scholars on the philosophical assessment of meditation. It critically assesses the conceptual and empirical validity of meditation, its philosophical implications, its legitimacy as a phenomenological research tool, its potential value as an aid to neuroscience research, its many practical benefits, and, among other considerations, its possibly misleading interpretations, applications, and consequences.
Following the introduction by the editor, the Handbook's chapters are organized in six parts:
. Meditation and philosophy
. Meditation and epistemology
. Meditation and metaphysics
. Meditation and values
. Meditation and phenomenology
. Meditation in Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions
A distinctive, timely, and invaluable reference work, it marks the emergence of a new discipline therein, the philosophy of meditation. The book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience in the fields of philosophy, meditation, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, theology, and Asian and Western philosophy. It will serve as the textbook in any philosophy course on meditation, and as secondary reading in courses in philosophy of mind, consciousness, selfhood/personhood, metaphysics, or phenomenology, thereby helping to restore philosophy as a way of life.
Contenu
Foreword by Owen Flanagan
Introduction: Is meditation philosophy? Rick Repetti
PART I: Meditation and philosophy
1 Skeptical doubts about meditation as philosophy Richard Legum
2 The philosophy of meditation: The spoken Tao Rick Repetti
3 Meditation and the paradox of self-consciousness Ben Abelson
4 The relation between meditation and analytic philosophy Marie Friquegnon
5 Engaging metacognitive practices: On the uses (and possible abuse) of meditation in philosophy Sonam Kachru
6 Differences and interaction between meditative cultivation and philosophical thought/insight in early and Theravada Buddhism Peter Harvey
7 The necessity of meditation in Upani adic turiya and Yogacara amala vijñana Charu Thapliyal
PART II: Meditation and epistemology
8 Meditation, nonconceptuality, and the reflexive structure of consciousness John Spackman
9 The experience of presence: Meditation and the nature of consciousness Wolfgang Fasching
10 Meditation as cultivating knowledge-how Christopher W. Gowans
11 How meditation changes the brain: A neurophilosophical and pragmatic account David R. Vago
12 How a philosophy of meditation can explore the deep connections between mindfulness and contemplative wisdom John Vervaeke
13 Psychedelics and meditation: A neurophilosophical perspective Chris Letheby
PART III: Meditation and metaphysics
14 Philosophy without a philosopher: Anatman as a special case of dependent arising Lou Marinoff
15 Meditative experience and the plasticity of self-experience Matthew MacKenzie
16 The self: What does mindfulness meditation reveal about it? Karsten J. Struhl
17 Control, anxiety, and the progressive detachment from the self Bryce Huebner and Genevieve Hayman
PART IV: Meditation and values
18 Is there a global norm in favor of global attentiveness? Jake H. Davis
19 Meditation in the context of a naturalized eudaimonic Buddhism Seth Zuiho Segall
PART V: Meditation and phenomenology
20 The phenomenology of meditation: An Advaita approach Sthaneshwar Timalsina
21 What is meditation good for?: Reflections on the use of meditation in the study of consciousness Georges Dreyfus
22 Bare attention, dereification, and meta-awareness in mindfulness: A phenomenological critique Odysseus Stone and Dan Zahavi
23 Consciousness, content, and cognitive attenuation: A neurophenomenological perspective Christian Coseru
PART VI: Meditation in Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions
24 Prosochê as Stoic mindfulness Massimo Pigliucci
25 The philosophical presuppositions of Christian meditation: Theo-philosophical anthropology and its corresponding participatory ontology Joseph Terry
26 The end of man: Philosophical consummation in Jewish meditative tradition Tomer Persico