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In the recent, burgeoning discourse on Buddhist thought and cognitive science, premodern Buddhists are sometimes characterized as veritable mind scientists whose insights anticipate modern research on the brain and mind. Aiming to complicate this story, Dan Arnold confronts a significant obstacle to popular attempts at harmonizing classical Buddhist and modern scientific thought: since most Indian Buddhists believe that the mental continuum is uninterrupted by death (its continuity is what Buddhists mean by rebirth), they would have no truck with claims that everything about the mental is explicable with reference to brain events. Yet despite this significant divergence, a predominant stream of Indian Buddhist thought, associated with the seventh-century thinker Dharmakrti, turns out to be vulnerable to arguments modern philosophers have leveled against physicalism.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Buddhism

• Full title: Brains, Buddhas, and Believing
• Author: Arnold
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780231145466
• ISBN: 0231145462
• ID: 04458218
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 570 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 162 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. May 2012

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