Emmanuel - Buddhist philosophy: a comparative approach

Edited by Steven M. Emmanuel

Virginia Wesleyan College
VA, USA

This edition first published 2018
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Names: Emmanuel, Steven M., editor.
Title: Buddhist philosophy : a comparative approach / edited by Steven M. Emmanuel, Virginia Wesleyan College, VA, US.
Other titles: Buddhist philosophy (John Wiley & Sons)
Description: First edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017017089 (print) | LCCN 2017017825 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119068259 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119068402 (epub) | ISBN 9781119068242 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119068419 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Buddhist philosophy.
Classification: LCC B162 (ebook) | LCC B162 .B848 2017 (print) | DDC 181/.043dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017017089

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Ricki Bliss is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lehigh University. Her publications include On Being Humean about the Emptiness of Causation, in The Moon Points Back, edited by Yasuo Deguchi, Jay Garfield, Graham Priest, and Koji Tanaka (Oxford University Press, 2015); Viciousness and Circles of Ground, Metaphilosophy 45(2) (2014); and Viciousness and the Structure of Reality, Philosophical Studies 166(2) (2013).

Christian Coseru is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston. He is the author of Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2012), in addition to a number of articles that explore topics in Buddhist metaphysics and epistemology, including Buddhism, Comparative Neurophilosophy, and Human Flourishing, Zygon 49(1); Taking the Intentionality of Perception Seriously: Why Phenomenology is Inescapable, Philosophy East and West 65(3); Dignga and Dharmakrti on Perception and SelfAwareness, in The Buddhist World, edited by John Powers (Routledge, 2013); and Reason and Experience in Buddhist Epistemology, in A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, edited by Steven M. Emmanuel (WileyBlackwell, 2013).

David Cummiskey is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Bates College. His research focuses on contemporary issues in moral philosophy, political theory, and intercultural philosophy. He is the author of Kantian Consequentialism (Oxford University Press, 1996). Recent articles include Comparative Reflections on Buddhist Political Thought: Asoka, Shambhala and the General Will, in A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, edited by Steven M. Emmanuel (WileyBlackwell, 2013); Competing Conceptions of the Self in Kantian and Buddhist Moral Theories, in Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy (Walter de Gruyter, 2010); and Dignity, Contractualism, and Consequentialism, Utilitas 20(4) (2008).

Bret W. Davis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. Among his books are Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit (Northwestern University Press, 2007); coedited with Brian Schroeder and Jason M. Wirth, Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (Indiana University Press, 2011); and coedited with Fujita Masakatsu, Sekai no naka no Nihon no tetsugaku (Japanese Philosophy in the World) (Showado, 2005). He has also published numerous articles in English and in Japanese on continental and comparative philosophy, on the Kyoto School, and on Zen.

Jake H. Davis is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He trained in Buddhist theory and meditative practice under the meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita of Burma and served for a decade as an interpreter between Burmese and English for meditation retreats in Burma and abroad. He has authored and coauthored articles at the intersection of Buddhist philosophy, moral philosophy, and cognitive science, and is editor of the forthcoming volume, A Mirror is For Reflection: Understanding Buddhist Ethics (Oxford University Press).

Douglas Duckworth is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. He is the author of Mipam on BuddhaNature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition (SUNY Press, 2008) and Jamgn Mipam: His Life and Teachings (Shambhala, 2011). He also translated Btrls Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies: Illuminating Emptiness in a TwentiethCentury Tibetan Buddhist Classic (SUNY Press, 2011).

Christopher W. Gowans is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. In addition to his numerous articles on topics in moral philosophy and Buddhist thought, he is the editor of Moral Disagreements (Routledge, 2000) and Moral Dilemmas (Oxford University Press, 1989), and author of Buddhist Moral Philosophy: An Introduction (Routledge, 2014) and Philosophy of the Buddha (Routledge, 2003).

Steven Heine is Professor of Religious Studies and History as well as Associate Director of the School of International and Public Affairs and Director of Asian Studies at Florida International University. His research specialty is the origins and development of Zen Buddhism, especially the life and teachings of Dgen, founder of the St sect. He has published two dozen books, including