Enthusiasts for the scientific character of Buddhism wax eloquent regarding the insights that the Buddhist tradition can deliver to cognitive science, and the contributions that meditative technique can make to understanding cognitive and affective processes. To be sure, there are contributions in this direction, though their significance may be overestimated. Less attention is paid to the value of cognitive theory for developing Buddhist insights in the 21st Century,and the role of science in the dissemination of Buddhism in the modern world. I will pay some attention to that value. I conclude with some remarks on the potential value of Buddhist psychology to the development of moral psychology, an area in which Buddhism has a great deal to contribute.
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1. What well-known brain imaging studies of meditators do and do not Show 15 2. Surface vs deep phenomenology 18 3. Deep phenomenology matters: The myth of the givenness of consciousness 21 4. Why Buddhism and Buddhist practice tell us so little about deep phenomenology 23 5. What congnitive science offers to Buddhism in deep phenomenology 25 6. Buddhism and moral psychology: A real contribution 28 Reference 29
