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Selfless Minds is a contribution to cross-cultural philosophy that studies the nature of selfless minds from a place at the crossroads of different traditions and disciplines: philosophy in the traditional Buddhist and contemporary Western traditions, and contemporary cognitive sciences.
List of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Historical Introduction to Abhidharma Buddhist Philosophy
- Self/No-Self in Abhidharma Philosophy
- Episodic Memories without a Self
- Synchronic Unity without a Self
- No-Self and the Phenomenology of Agency
- No-Self and the Phenomenology of Ownership
- On What Matters
- The Buddhist Path
- Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
About the author
Monima Chadha is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Member of the Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University. Her research is in philosophy of mind, consciousness and self from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. She is particularly interested in nature and scope of revisionary Buddhist metaphysics and its normative commitments. She received the inaugural Annette Baier Prize in 2016. Her PhD is from Monash University, Australia and her undergraduate, Honours, and Masters degrees are from the University of Delhi, India.
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Selfless Minds is a contribution to cross-cultural philosophy that studies the nature of selfless minds from a place at the crossroads of different traditions and disciplines: philosophy in the traditional Buddhist and contemporary Western traditions, and contemporary cognitive sciences.
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Monima Chadha has given the world of Anglophone philosophy more reason to take Indian Buddhist philosophy seriously in this closely argued study of the philosophy of the 4th century philosopher Vasubandhu ...this is a rich and rewarding book. I recommend it to those interested in how Indian Buddhist philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind can be brought together in philosophical conversation, and that should be anyone in our profession.
