The Middle Way to Reality: on Why I Am Not a Buddhist and Other Philosophical Curiosities

Coseru, Christian (著)

作者

Coseru, Christian (著)

出處題名

Sophia

卷期

v.62 n.1

出版日期

2023.03

頁次

87 - 110

出版者

Springer Nature

出版者網址

https://www.springernature.com/gp

出版地

Switzerland [瑞士]

資料類型

期刊論文=Journal Article

使用語言

英文=English

附註項

Author Affiliation: College of Charleston

關鍵詞

Evolutionary psychology; Cognitive neuroscience; Scientific metaphysics; Madhyamaka; Neurophenomenology; Buddhist modernism; Naturalism; Foundationalism; Realism; Anti-realism

摘要

This paper examines four central issues prompted by a recent critique of this Buddhist modernist phenomenon in Evan Thompson’s Why I Am Not a Buddhist : (i) the suitability of evolutionary psychology as a framework of analysis for Buddhist moral psychological ideas; (ii) the issue of what counts as the core and main trajectory of the Buddhist intellectual tradition; (iii) the scope of naturalism in the relation between science and metaphysics, and (iv) whether a Madhyamaka-inspired anti-foundationalism stance can serve as an effective platform for debating the issue of progress in science. The main argument of this paper is that while the mind sciences may corroborate some aspects of the Buddhist model of mind, they also call into question some core Buddhist ideas. Hence, if Buddhism is to enter into a fruitful dialogue with the mind sciences, it must be shown to complement the empirical claims to knowledge for which scientific naturalism so far provides the most viable basis.

Keywords 87
Confessional Overture 87
Buddhism and Evolutionary Psychology: Matching Partners or Incompatible Bedfellows? 89
Fine‑Tuning Naturalism 94
A Scientifc Metaphysics? 95
Madhyamaka and the Real World 99
In Defense of Epistemological Optimism 103
References 107

ISSN

00381527 (P); 1873930X (E)

DOI

10.1007/s11841-021-00854-4

點閱次數

203

建檔日期

2021.07.27

更新日期

2023.10.05