(previous installment here)
The concluding chapter of OBM is quite brief. Griffiths summarizes his findings thus:
It seems, then, that in looking at the Indian Buddhist debates surrounding the attainment of cessation the following conclusions can be drawn about the basic Buddhist view of the relations between the mental and the physical. First, the mental and […]
Milinda’s Questions
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Griffiths review, concluded
Meaning of Life TV
I’ve mentioned Meaning of Life TV before. Sponsored by the Templeton Foundation and appearing in Slate, it might be thought of as Robert Wright’s bid to become the Bill Moyers of the Internet by interviewing prominent scientists and “spiritual leaders†on various heady matters. In one respect the Slate interface can be slightly […]
Guide to Foundational Questions about Templeton
Prologue
A blogger can learn some interesting things by looking at her stats. (Yes, the feminine pronoun is intentional; I was in grad school long enough that PC-speak comes naturally to me.) I’ve just signed up for Google Analytics, which I hope will tell me all kinds of neat things about who’s visiting this […]
Duelling over Dualisms
There’s a very interesting discussion going on over on Bill Vallicella’s Maverick Philosopher about the “standard arguments” against mind/body dualism. Bill starts out by quoting Elliot Sober:
If the mind is immaterial, then it does not take up space. But if it lacks spatial location, how can it be causally connected to the body? When […]
The R-word
Worth looking at today:
At Meaning of Life TV, an interview with Dan Dennett.Update: Kevin Kim at Big Hominid has some remarks about this interview,too.
A discussion on “What is Buddhism?” on Stephen Batchelor’s blog.
Nathaniel Cordova at Woodmore Village reports on a discussion he got into on another, unnamed blog, on the claim that “divine laws […]
Siderits on Subjectless Pains
The following is quoted from pp. 39-41 of Mark Siderits’s Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons (Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington, VT, 2003.) It’s posted here as a supplement to my previous post.
The Reductionist denies that persons ultimately exist, but affirms the existence of such psychological events as pains. Since, Schechtman might assert, […]
S. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sometime in the mid-70s, as a high school student, I ran across a book with an intriguing title on the remainder cart at Walden’s Books at the local mall. The book was World Hypotheses by one Stephen Pepper, and since it was marked down to a couple of bucks, I picked it up. […]
