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    Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self

    Models of Consciousness in Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita Vedānta

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    Author(s)
    Shevchenko, Dimitry
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    This monograph is about the metaphor of reflection in a mirror, frequently used in Indian philosophical traditions to address metaphysical, epistemological, and theological problems arising from a non-reductionist approach to consciousness. The metaphor stands for the idea that, just as a face, reflected in a mirror, appears where it is not, so do consciousness and its properties, such as the sense of self, subjectivity, and experience of qualia, stand in falsely perceived relations to cognitive and perceptive processes. The book explores various models of interaction between consciousness, the mind-body complex, and the world, based on the metaphor of reflection, in the philosophical schools of Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita-Vedānta. Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self is the first systematic exploration of mirror models of consciousness across traditions. By grounding these theories in their historical intellectual context, the book sheds new light on an intense philosophical conversation between Indian reductionists and non-reductionists about consciousness. The book explores the impact of Indian mirror models on theories of mental representation, theories of knowledge, philosophy of language, debates on illusory causality and on the relationship between noumena and phenomena, as well as soteriological and theological theories. In a dialogue with psychoanalytical theory and analytic philosophy of mind, the book defends a new model of consciousness, integrating consciousness-mind dualism, mind naturalism, and representationalism about consciousness.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92406
    Keywords
    Sāṃkhya, Yoga, Advaita-Vedānta, Philosophy of Consciousness, Philosophy of Mind, Indian Philosophy, pratibimba, Jacques Lacan, Thomas Metzinger, Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya
    DOI
    10.1093/oso/9780197665510.001.0001
    ISBN
    9780197665527, 9780197665534, 9780197665541, 9780197665510
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    Publisher website
    https://global.oup.com/
    Publication date and place
    New York, 2023
    Series
    Rocher Indology,
    Classification
    Hinduism
    Philosophy of religion
    Yoga (as a philosophy)
    Pages
    177
    Public remark
    Funder name: Rocher Foundation
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • If not noted otherwise all contents are available under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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