Mind, Body and Self: Perspectives on Consciousness

ISBN-13: 9783031421228 / Angielski

Jaysankar Lal Shaw; Purushottama Bilimoria; Anand Vaidya

Spis treści

 -          Chapter 1: Narrative construction of the self and the accuracy problem - David Lumsden

-          Chapter 2: A Corporeal Self: New Perspectives on the Subject in the Contemporary Phenomenological Debate - Valerie Bizzari

-          Chapter 3: The Subject of Consciousness, Higher-Order Thought, and Bodily Representation - Karen Yan

-          Chapter 4: Deranged Soul for Itself: Hegel’s Anthropological Account of the Mind-Body Relation in the Causes and Symptoms of Mental Illness - Daniel Tkatch

-          Chapter 5: Conscious Authorship: Empirical Models of Mental Causation - Joana Rigato

-          Chapter 6: From Subject to Subjectivity: A Conceptual Shift in the Discourse on Self - Robin Luke Varghese

-          Chapter 7: On Two Senses of Identity, or art is Art - iBaris Gedizlioglu         

-          Chapter 8: A Māori Perspective of Mind and Self - Piripi Whaanga

-          Chapter 9: Vedāntic Concept of the Major Constituents of Human Personality and their role on its Sustained Development - Dilip Dutta

-          Chapter 10: ‘I Celebrate Myself, and Sing Myself’: the Dehātmavāda of Ancient Cārvākas and Modern Science - Papia Mitra

-          Chapter 11: Self: A Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Perspective - Patralekha Mitra

-          Chapter 12: Mind and Mental States: East and West - Jaysankar Lal Shaw

 

O autorze

Dr Shaw’s research in the field of Indian and Comparative Philosophy is considered to be pioneering. His aim is to suggest some new solutions which involve both scholarship and creativity. His papers have been the first of their kinds in many Western journals of philosophy and logic. The seminars he organised were also the first of their kinds. He has presented some 160 papers at conferences or seminars in several countries. He has also received around 130 funded invitations from institutions or universities around the world, directed orientation courses on comparative philosophy, and received a grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (Washington, D.C.) to train American philosophers in Hawaii. In 1993, he represented New Zealand at the World Parliament of Religions in Calcutta.

Purushottama Bilimoria is an Australian-American academic of Indian origin. He is a former Fellow of the College of the All Souls of the Faithful Departed, University of Oxford, a senior research fellow with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, The University of Oxford; distinguished teaching and research fellow and core doctoral faculty at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; a Chancellor's Scholar, lecturer and visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley; former visiting scholar with the Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California at Berkeley; an honorary professor at the Deakin University; and senior fellow with the School of Philosophical and Historical Studies and the Australia India Institute in the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; editor-in-chief of both 'Sophia' and 'Journal of Dharma Studies' (Springer), and editor of Routledge History of Indian Philosophy (2018).
Bilimoria is also the editor-in-chief of the Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Culture (currently at 30 volumes; with Springer).

Anand Vaidya is an associate professor of philosophy and Director of the Centre for Comparative philosophy at San Jose State University. Trained as an analytic philosopher, his current areas of research include epistemology, philosophy of mind, critical thinking, and comparative philosophy, with an expanded interest in cross-cultural and multidisciplinary study of mind, ways of knowing about reality, and critical thinking in democracy. His primary interest in this area is on Indo-Anglo-Analytic philosophy that engages cognitive science.

 

Blurb

This book is a unique collaboration of philosophers from across the world bringing together contemporary concepts of consciousness, the Māori conception of self, as well as Indian and Buddhist concepts of self and mental states. Contemporary concepts of consciousness include higher-order consciousness and phenomenological approaches. The idea behind this volume came from an international conference on ‘Mind, Body and Self’ held at Victoria University of Wellington; organised by the Society for Philosophy and Culture. The authors herein contribute to the relationship between concepts of self, mind and body.  The wide variety of contributors from across cultural backgrounds add to a diverse and valuable conversation on the nature of human existence and thoughts of self. This book appeals to students and researchers working in philosophy and religious studies.