Does the self-a unified, separate, persisting thinker/owner/agent-exist? Drawing on Western
philosophy, neurology and Theravadin Buddhism, this book argues that the self is an illusion
created by a tier of non-illusory consciousness and a tier of desire-driven thought and …

To understand the mind and its place in Nature is one of the great intellectual challenges of
our time, a challenge that is both scientific and philosophical. How does cognition influence
an animal's behaviour? What are its neural underpinnings? How is the inner life of a human …

This is a book for scholars of Western philosophy who wish to engage with Buddhist
philosophy, or who simply want to extend their philosophical horizons. It is also a book for
scholars of Buddhist studies who want to see how Buddhist theory articulates with …

What turns the continuous flow of experience into perceptually distinct objects? Can our
verbal descriptions unambiguously capture what it is like to see, hear, or feel? How might we
reason about the testimony that perception alone discloses? Christian Coseru proposes a …

Anyone who is accustomed to the view that contradictions cannot be true and cannot be
accepted, and who reads texts in the Buddhist traditions, will be struck by the fact that these
texts frequently contain contradictions. Just consider, for example:

Abstract In early Buddhist logic, it was standard to assume that for any state of affairs there
were four possibilities: that it held, that it did not, both, or neither. This is the catuskoti (or
tetralemma). Classical logicians have had a hard time making sense of this, but it makes …

This volume collects essays by philosophers and scholars working at the interface of
Western philosophy and Buddhist Studies. Many have distinguished scholarly records in
Western philosophy, with expertise in analytic philosophy and logic, as well as deep interest …

Abstract Huntington (2007); argues that recent commentators (Robinson, 1957; Hayes,
1994; Tillemans, 1999; Garfield and Priest, 2002) err in attributing to Nāgārjuna and
Candrakīrti a commitment to rationality and to the use of argument, and that these …

What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional
answers—for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications—this book offers an
eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the …