Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind: A Constructive Engagement

The book explores the intersection of enactivism and Buddhist thought, drawing on and integrating their insights to offer a comprehensive and pluralistic approach to the philosophy of mind. It engages with core issues in the philosophy of mind broadly construed in and through the dialogue between Buddhism and enactivism, investigating the nature of mind and experience in dialogue with Indian and Western thinkers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 196 pages
Publication date: 25 March 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

The last 30 years have seen a significant growth in the popularity of embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended (4E) accounts of mind and experience. This has led to a more cosmopolitan and pluralistic approach to the philosophy of mind, drawing on analytic, phenomenological, pragmatic, and non-Western sources and traditions. This book is the first to fully engage the 4E approach and Buddhist philosophy, drawing on and integrating the intersection of enactivism and Buddhist thought.

The 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 have 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.

Weight: 308g
Dimension: 230 x 151 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538160145