Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will

Agentless Agency?
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-95034-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

Throughout the history of Buddhism, little has been said prior to the Twentieth Century that explicitly raises the question whether we have free will, though the Buddha rejected fatalism and some Buddhists have addressed whether karma is fatalistic. Recently, however, Buddhist and Western philosophers have begun to explicitly discuss Buddhism and free will.

This book incorporates Buddhist philosophy more explicitly into the Western analytic philosophical discussion of free will, both in order to render more perspicuous Buddhist ideas that might shed light on the Western philosophical debate, and in order to render more perspicuous the many possible positions on the free will debate that are available to Buddhist philosophy. The book covers:

- Buddhist and Western perspectives on the problem of free will

- The puzzle of whether free will is possible if, as Buddhists believe, there is no agent/self

- Theravada views

- Mahayana views

- Evidential considerations from science, meditation, and skepticism

The first book to bring together classical and contemporary perspectives on free will in Buddhist thought, it is of interest to academics working on Buddhist and Western ethics, comparative philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, agency, and personal identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Repetti, Rick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Rick Repetti

1. Why the Buddha Did Not Discuss ‘the Problem of Free Will and Determinism’

Christopher W. Gowans

2. Why There Should Be a Buddhist Theory of Free Will

Rick Repetti

3. Uses of the Illusion of Agency: Why Some Buddhists Should Believe in Free Will

Charles Goodman

4. Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: Freedom, Agency and Ethics for Madhyamikas

Jay Garfield

5. Negative Dialectics in Comparative Philosophy: The Case of Buddhist Free Will Quietism

Owen Flanagan

6. Free Will and the Sense of Self

Galen Strawson

7. What Am I Doing?

Susan Blackmore

8. Freedom from Responsibility: Agent-Neutral Consequentialism and the Bodhisattva Ideal

Christian Coseru

9. Free Will, Liberation and Buddhist Philosophy

Marie Friquegnon

10. Buddhism and Free Will: Beyond the ‘Free Will Problem’

B. Alan Wallace

11. Degrees of Freedom: The Buddha’s Implied Views on the (Im)possibility of Free Will

Martin T. Adam

12. Buddhist Paleocompatibilism

Mark Siderits

13. Shifting Coalitions, Free Will, and the Responsibility of Persons

Ben Abelson

14. Psychological versus Metaphysical Agents: A Theravada Buddhist View of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Peter Harvey

15. Emotions and Choice: Lessons from Tsongkhapa

Emily McRae

16. Grasping Snakes: Reflections on Free Will, Samadhi, and Dharmas

Karin Meyers

17. Agentless Agency: The Soft Compatibilist Argument from Buddhist Meditation, Mind-Mastery, Evitabilism, and Mental Freedom

Rick Repetti

Über Autor(innen)

Rick Repetti is Professor of Philosophy at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA. He is the author of The Counterfactual Theory of Free Will (2010), as well as several articles on Buddhism, meditation, free will, and philosophy of religion.