Perceiving Reality
Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy
Christian Coseru
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Methodological and Metatheoretical Considerations
1. Doctrine and Argument
2. Reason and Discourse Analysis
3. Cognition as Enactive Transformation
4. Phenomenological Epistemology and the Project of Naturalism
Chapter 3: Sensation and the Empirical Consciousness
1. No-self and the Domains of Experience
2. Two Dimensions of Mind: Consciousness as Discernment and Sentience
3. Attention and Mental Proliferation
4. Cognitive Awareness and Its Object
Chapter 4: Perception, Conception, and Language
1. Shared Notions about Perceptual Knowledge
2. Debating the Criteria for Reliable Cognition
3. Cognitive Aspects and Linguistic Conventions
4. Epistemology as Cognitive Event Theory
Chapter 5: An Encyclopaedic and Compassionate Setting for Buddhist Epistemology
1. The Definition of Purpose: Dependent Arising and Compassion
2. Mapping the Ontological and Epistemological Domains
3. Perception and the Principle of Clarity
Chapter 6: Perception as an Epistemic Modality
1. "Conception Free" as a condition of "Perceptual Knowledge"
2. Perception, Conception, and the Problem of Naming
3. Cognitive Errors and Perceptual Illusions
Chapter 7: Foundationalism and the Phenomenology of Perception
1. Intrinsic Ascertainment and the "Given"
2. Particulars and Phenomenal Objects
3. Foundationalism and Its Malcontents
4. Naturalism and Its Discontents
5. Beyond Representation: An Enactive Perception Theory
Chapter 8: Perception, Self-Awareness, and Intentionality
1. Reflexivity and the Aspectual Nature of Intentional Reference
2. Knowledge, Phenomenal Objects, and the Cognitive Subconscious
3. Phenomenology and the Intentionality of Perception
Chapter 9: In Defense of Epistemological Optimism
1. A Moving Horizon
2. Embodied Consciousness: Beyond "Seeing" and "Seeing As"
3. Epistemic Authority Without Manifest Truth
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