LEADER 04641nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910816783103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-51821-8 024 7 $a10.7312/arno14546 035 $a(CKB)2550000000101648 035 $a(EBL)909579 035 $a(OCoLC)818857164 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000654718 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12256575 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000654718 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10673446 035 $a(PQKB)10902214 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000087859 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909579 035 $a(DE-B1597)458612 035 $a(OCoLC)796815881 035 $a(OCoLC)979683023 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231518215 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909579 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10563205 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL684478 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000101648 100 $a20110414d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBrains, Buddhas, and believing $ethe problem of intentionality in classical Buddhist and cognitive-scientific philosophy of mind /$fDan Arnold 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14547-0 311 $a0-231-14546-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Dharmak?rti's Proof of Rebirth -- $t2. The Cognitive-Scientific Revolution -- $t3. Responsiveness to Reasons as Such -- $t4. The Apoha Doctrine -- $t5. The Svasa?vitti Doctrine -- $t6. Indian Arguments from Practical Reason -- $tConcluding Reflections -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aPremodern Buddhists are sometimes characterized as veritable "mind scientists" whose insights anticipate modern research on the brain and mind. Aiming to complicate this story, Dan Arnold confronts a significant obstacle to popular attempts at harmonizing classical Buddhist and modern scientific thought: since most Indian Buddhists held that the mental continuum is uninterrupted by death (its continuity is what Buddhists mean by "rebirth"), they would have no truck with the idea that everything about the mental can be explained in terms of brain events. Nevertheless, a predominant stream of Indian Buddhist thought, associated with the seventh-century thinker Dharmakirti, turns out to be vulnerable to arguments modern philosophers have leveled against physicalism.By characterizing the philosophical problems commonly faced by Dharmakirti and contemporary philosophers such as Jerry Fodor and Daniel Dennett, Arnold seeks to advance an understanding of both first-millennium Indian arguments and contemporary debates on the philosophy of mind. The issues center on what modern philosophers have called intentionality-the fact that the mind can be about (or represent or mean) other things. Tracing an account of intentionality through Kant, Wilfrid Sellars, and John McDowell, Arnold argues that intentionality cannot, in principle, be explained in causal terms.Elaborating some of Dharmakirti's central commitments (chiefly his apoha theory of meaning and his account of self-awareness), Arnold shows that despite his concern to refute physicalism, Dharmakirti's causal explanations of the mental mean that modern arguments from intentionality cut as much against his project as they do against physicalist philosophies of mind. This is evident in the arguments of some of Dharmakirti's contemporaneous Indian critics (proponents of the orthodox Brahmanical Mimasa school as well as fellow Buddhists from the Madhyamaka school of thought), whose critiques exemplify the same logic as modern arguments from intentionality. Elaborating these various strands of thought, Arnold shows that seemingly arcane arguments among first-millennium Indian thinkers can illuminate matters still very much at the heart of contemporary philosophy. 606 $aIntentionality (Philosophy) 606 $aBuddhist philosophy 606 $aPhilosophy of mind 606 $aPhilosophy, Comparative 615 0$aIntentionality (Philosophy) 615 0$aBuddhist philosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Comparative. 676 $a128/.2 700 $aArnold$b Daniel Anderson$f1965-$01633003 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816783103321 996 $aBrains, Buddhas, and believing$93972535 997 $aUNINA