The Routledge handbook on the philosophy of meditation. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook on the philosophy of meditation; Philosophy of meditation
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rick Repetti.
• Editors: Repetti, Rick
• Contents: 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 Theravāda Buddhism; Peter Harvey 7 The necessity of meditation in Upaniṣadic turīya and Yogācāra 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: Anātman 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 Zuihō 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 158.12; Meditation; Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000575743; 9781000575699; 9781003127253
• Related ISBNs: 9780367647469
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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