In the last 30 years, embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended (4E) accounts of mind and experience have flourished. A more cosmopolitan and pluralistic approach to the philosophy of mind has also emerged, drawing on analytic, phenomenological, pragmatist, and non-Western sources and traditions. This is the first book to fully engages the 4E approach and Buddhist philosophy, drawing on and integrating the intersection of enactivism and Buddhist thought. This book deepens and extends the dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and 4E philosophy of mind and phenomenology. It engages with core issues in the philosophy of mind broadly construed in and through the dialogue between Buddhism and enactivism. Indian philosophers developed and defended philosophically sophisticated and phenomenologically rich accounts of mind, self, cognition, perception, embodiment, and more. As a work of cross-cultural philosophy, the book investigates the nature of mind and experience in dialogue with Indian and Western thinkers. On the basis of this cross-traditional dialogue, the book articulates and defends a dynamic, non-substantialist, and embodied account of experience, subjectivity, and self.
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.
Acknowledgements Introduction On Comparative Philosophy Overview of the Chapters 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 Conclusion Luminosity Luminosity Self-Luminosity and Other-Luminosity Dual-Aspect Reflexivism Temporality Dynamic Embodied Nondual Awareness Agency and Other Minds Karma Agentless Agency Enactive Agency Psychological Agency Other Minds Conclusion Enacting Worlds The Co-Emergence of Self and World Enacting Worlds Enaction, Emptiness, and Realism The Three Natures of Phenomena Cultivating Compassion The Samsaric Framework Bodhicitta, Empathy, and Open Intersubjectivity Meditative Concentration The Four Point Mind Training Equality of Self and Other The Limits of Self-Cherishing The Benefits of Altruism Exchange of Self and Other Conclusion Bibliography
