Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality

Christian Coseru works in the fields of philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and cross-cultural philosophy, especially Indian and Buddhist philosophy in dialogue with Western (classical and contemporary) philosophy and cognitive science. He is also interested in issues in moral psychology concerning empathy and evolution, and agency and responsibility. Author of Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy (OUP, 2012), his research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Australian Research Council. He is currently Lightsey Humanities Chair and Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston, and Associate Faculty in the Asian Studies and Religious Studies Programs.

• Introduction: In Praise of Fusion Philosophy Mark Siderits––Biography.- Part I – Mind.- 1. But Aren’t We Conscious? A Buddhist Reflection on the Hard Problem Georges Dreyfus.- 2. Reasons and Conscious Persons Christian Coseru.- 3. ‘Real Descartes’ Galen Strawson.- 4. The Imperfect Reality of Persons Jonardon Ganeri.- 5. Eliminating Selves, Reducing Persons Monima Chadha and Shaun Nichols.- 6. The Curious Case of the Conscious Corpse: A Medieval Buddhist Thought Experiment Robert H. Sharf.- 7. How Do Buddhists Account for the Continuity of Mind After Death? Jan Westerhoff.- 8. What’s in a Concept? Conceptualizing the Nonconceptual in Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science Evan Thompson.- 9. On Necessary Connection in Mental Causation – Nāgārjuna’s Master Argument against the Sautrāntika-Vasubandhu: A Mādhyamika Response to Mark Siderits Sonam Thakchoe.- Part II – Metaphysics.- 10. A Post-Reductionist Buddhism? Matthew MacKenzie.- 11. Madhyamaka, Ultimate Reality, and Ineffability JayGarfield and Graham Priest.- 12. The Real According to Madhyamaka or Thoughts on Whether Mark Siderits and I Really Disagree Dan Arnold.- 13. Anti-Realism and Realism About the Past: A Present for Mark Siderits Arindam Chakrabarti.- 14. Buddhist Shipping Containers Koji.-  Tanaka.- 15. Finite and Infinite: On Not Making ‘Them’ Different Enough Rupert Read & Christian Greiffenhagen Part III – Epistemology.- 16. Mark Siderits on Anumāna Shoryu Katsura.- 17. Buddhist Reductionism, Fictionalism, and Expressibility Laura P. Guerrero.- 18. The Presupposition Strategy and the Two Truths John Spackman.- Part IV – Morality.- 19. The Confession: I am a Buddhist Platonist Amber Carpenter.- 20. Self-Cultivation Philosophy as Fusion Philosophy: An Interpretation of Buddhist Moral Thought Christopher W. Gowans.- 21. Can We Know Whether Śāntideva was a Consequentialist? Charles Goodman.- 22. Selfhood and Resentment Rick Repetti Publications of Mark Siderits