1. Author affiliation: Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York 2. Special Issue: Buddhism and Free Will
摘要
This special issue of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Volume 25, is a symposium on the anthology, Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency? (Repetti), and on the topic reflected by that title, more broadly, based on an Author Meets Critics session of the 2018 American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting organized by Christian Coseru. To orient readers new to the topic, I first sketch what some of the issues are regarding Buddhist perspectives on free will. Second, I briefly describe the anthology, and third, I introduce the several contributions to this symposium. As I am sympathetic to most of the papers here, I only respond briefly to them in this introduction, giving some reasons for my approval. Two papers here, however, are significantly critical of either the anthology as a whole (Brent), or critical of my contributions to it (Meyers). I respond separately to each of them in the last two papers in the symposium. Together with this introduction, all the included papers are original.
目次
Précis 638 What Do, or Can, Buddhists Think about Free Will? 540 Can There Be Agency without an Agent-Self? 640 Can There Be Karma and Rebirth without an Agent-Self? 642 Is Agency Inconsistent with Buddhist Causation? 643 Is Free Will Possible in Light of the Buddha’s Alleged Omniscience? 644 Can a Non-Agent Make the Choice and Efforts to Follow the Buddhist Path? 644 If There Are No Agent-Selves, How Can Buddhist Titans of Mind-Control Exist? 645 Is There Free Will in Either of the Two Truths? 645 The Edited Collection, Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will 646 Katie Javanaud 651 Michael Brent 651 Asaf Federman and Oren Ergas 653 Jonathan Gold 654 James Luisi 655 Karin Meyers 657 Marie Friquegnon 658 Conclusion 659 Works Cited 660
