Daniel A. Arnold: "The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind"
Abstract:
This lecture is part of the Stanford Humanities Center's Claire and John Radway Research Workshop on Mythos & Logos: Religion and Rationality in the Humanities. The workshop brings together scholars from a variety of humanistic disciplines to re-examine the role (and persistence) of religious representations, concepts, and doctrines in modern and contemporary culture, literature, and philosophy. It investigates such topics as a renewed interest in theories of secularization and the ostensible arrival of a post-secular age; the philosophical appropriation and criticism of existential and ethical themes originating in the religions; and the role religious ideas and discourse continue to play in politics. The title of the workshop expresses the wager that the mythos of religion is not without its logos.
Bio:
Daniel A. Arnold, University of Chicago
Daniel A. Arnold is an associate professor of the philosophy of religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He is a scholar of Indian Buddhist philosophy and has focused on works of Nāgārjuna and of Dharmakīrti. His first book, Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion, won an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion. His forthcoming book, Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind, is to be published by Columbia University in 2012. He is currently working on an anthology of Madhyamaka texts in translation.