Table of Contents
Introduction: Is meditation philosophy?
PART I: Meditation and philosophy
1 Skeptical doubts about meditation as philosophy
2 The philosophy of meditation: The spoken Tao
3 Meditation and the paradox of self-consciousness
4 The relation between meditation and analytic philosophy
5 Engaging metacognitive practices: On the uses (and possible abuse) of meditation in philosophy
6 Differences and interaction between meditative cultivation and philosophical thought/insight in early and Theravāda Buddhism
7 The necessity of meditation in Upaniṣadic turīya and Yogācāra amala vijñana
PART II: Meditation and epistemology
8 Meditation, nonconceptuality, and the reflexive structure of consciousness
9 The experience of presence: Meditation and the nature of consciousness
10 Meditation as cultivating knowledge-how
11 How meditation changes the brain: A neurophilosophical and pragmatic account
12 How a philosophy of meditation can explore the deep connections between mindfulness and contemplative wisdom
13 Psychedelics and meditation: A neurophilosophical perspective
PART III: Meditation and metaphysics
14 Philosophy without a philosopher: Anātman as a special case of dependent arising
15 Meditative experience and the plasticity of self-experience
16 The self: What does mindfulness meditation reveal about it?
17 Control, anxiety, and the progressive detachment from the self
PART IV: Meditation and values
18 Is there a global norm in favor of global attentiveness?
19 Meditation in the context of a naturalized eudaimonic Buddhism
PART V: Meditation and phenomenology
20 The phenomenology of meditation: An Advaita approach
21 What is meditation good for?: Reflections on the use of meditation in the study of consciousness
22 Bare attention, dereification, and meta-awareness in mindfulness: A phenomenological critique
23 Consciousness, content, and cognitive attenuation: A neurophenomenological perspective
PART VI: Meditation in Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions
24 Prosochê as Stoic mindfulness
25 The philosophical presuppositions of Christian meditation: Theo-philosophical anthropology and its corresponding participatory ontology
26 The end of man: Philosophical consummation in Jewish meditative tradition