Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self: Models of Consciousness in Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita Vedānta Dimitry Shevchenko

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197665519
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197665510
• Author(s): Dimitry Shevchenko

In Indian philosophical traditions, a reflection in a mirror frequently serves as a metaphor, suggesting that just as a face in a mirror appears where it is not, so does consciousness. Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self utilizes this metaphor to address metaphysical, epistemological, and theological problems within non-reductionist approaches to consciousness. Author Dimitry Shevchenko contends that 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. This book explores models of interaction between consciousness, the mind-body complex, and the world in the philosophical schools of Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita-Vedant. In a dialogue with psychoanalytical theory and analytic philosophy of mind, Shevchenko defends a new model of consciousness, integrating consciousness-mind dualism, mind naturalism, and representationalism about consciousness.

Table contents:

Introduction
1 Mirror Models of Consciousness in Early Sources and Indian Philosophical Systems
2 Consciousness Reflects the Mind, the Mind Reflects Consciousness: Mirror Models in Sāṃkhya and Yoga
3 One Consciousness, Many Mirrors: Mirror Models in Advaita Vedānta
4 New Mirrors: Indian Theories of Reflection, Jacques Lacan, and Thomas Metzinger
Abbreviations
References
Index

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