PHIL 438
Topics in Indian Philosophy
Fall 2021
Readings
- Yoga Sūtras 1.30-39 and 2.54-3.12, in The Yoga Sūtras of Pataṇjali. Transl. Edwin Bryant (New York: North Point Press, 2009), 115-130 and 229-244 (page numbers in actual print edition are 118-141 and 297-320)
- Lutz, Slagter, Dunne, and Davidson. “Attention Regulation and Monitoring in Meditation,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12, (2008): 163–169
- Alan Wallace. “Śamatha,” in Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 169-186 (135-148 in actual print edition)
- Yoga Sūtras 1.41-44, in The Yoga Sūtras of Pataṇjali. Transl. Edwin Bryant (New York: North Point Press, 2009), 142-154
- George Dreyfus. “Is Mindfulness Present-Centered and Non-Judgmental? A Discussion of the Cognitive Dimensions of Mindfulness,” Contemporary Buddhism 12, no 1 (2011): 41-54
- David McMahan. “Meditation and Modernity,” in The Making of Buddhist Modernism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 183-214
- Jeff Wilson. “The Whitening of Mindfulness,” in Mindful America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 61-65
- Jeff Wilson. “Medicalizing Mindfulness: How is Mindfulness Modified to Fit a Scientific and Therapeutic Culture?” in Mindful America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 75-103
- Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch. “The I of the Storm” in The Embodied Mind (Boston: MIT Press, 1991), 59-72
- For a more detailed discussion of no-self, see Mark Siderits. “Non Self: Empty Persons,” in Buddhism as Philosophy (Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing Company, 2007), 32-68
- Dale Wright, “Reflective Practice” and “Philosophical Meditation,” in The Six Perfections (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 192-202
- Andrew Olendzki. “The Construction of Mindfulness,” Contemporary Buddhism, 12 No. 1 (2011): 55-70
- Kieran Fox and B. R. Cahn. “Meditation and the Brain in Health and Disease,” in The Oxford Handbook of Meditation. Preprint from MindRxiv (2018): 1-42 (note that this is double spaced)
- Jared Lindahl, Nathan Fisher, Willoughby et al. “The Varieties of Contemplative experience: A mixed-methods study of meditation-related challenges in Western Buddhists,” PLoS ONE 12, no. 5 (2017): 1-38
- Willoughby Britton. “Can Mindfulness be too much of a good thing? The value of the middle way,” Current Opinions in Psychology: Special Issue on Mindfulness 28 (2019): 159-165
- Emily McRae. “Equanimity and the Moral Virtue of Open-Mindedness,” American Philosophical Quarterly 53 (no 1) (2016). 97-108
- Jeffrey Lidke. “The Potential of the Bi-Directional Gaze: A Call for Neuroscientific Research on the Simultaneous Activation of the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems through Tantric Practice,” Religions 7,132 (2016). 1-17
- Wolfgang Fasching. “On the Advaitic Identification of Self and Consciousness,” in Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-Self (Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2012), 165-180
- Kena Upaniṣad ch.1-2 (translated by Patrick Olivelle)
- Evan Thompson. “Dreamless Sleep, the Embodied Mind, and Consciousness—The Relevance of a Classical Indian Debate to Cognitive Science.” In T. Metzinger and J. M. Windt (Eds). Open MIND 37 (T) (2015): 1-19
- Śaṅkara. “The Parisaṃkhyāṇa Meditation,” in A Thousand Teachings: The Upadeśasāhasrī of Śaṅkāra, transl. Sengaku Mayeda (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992), 251- 253
- John Dunne. “Toward an Understanding of Nondual Mindfulness,” in Contemporary Buddhism 12, no 1 (2011): 71-88
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2021-Fall-PHIL-438-LECTURE-A1 ↗2021
- Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.