Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780190253110)

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 rigorous and highly original way to answer these questions by developing a framework for understanding perception as a mode of apprehension that is intentionally constituted, pragmatically oriented, and causally effective. By engaging with recent discussions in phenomenology and analytic philosophy of mind, but also by drawing on the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, Coseru offers a sustained argument that Buddhist philosophers, in particular those who follow the tradition of inquiry initiated by Dign?ga and Dharmak?rti, have much to offer when it comes to explaining why epistemological disputes about the evidential role of perceptual experience cannot satisfactorily be resolved without taking into account the structure of our cognitive awareness.

Author: Christian Coseru
ISBN-10: 0190253118
ISBN-13: 9780190253110
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2015
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.30d