Philosophy's Big Questions: Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches (Hardcover)

Foreword, by Leah Kalmanson
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Editor’s Introduction, by Steven M. Emmanuel
1. How Should We Live? Happiness, Human Flourishing, and the Good Human Life, by Stephen J. Laumakis
2. What Is Knowledge? Knowledge in the Context of Buddhist Thought, by Douglas Duckworth
3. Does Reality Have a Ground? Madhyamaka and Nonfoundationalism, by Jan Westerhoff
4. Can Consciousness Be Explained? Buddhist Idealism and the “Hard Problem” in Philosophy of Mind, by Dan Arnold
5. Is Anything We Do Really Up to Us? Western and Buddhist Philosophical Perspectives on Free Will, by Rick Repetti
6. Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? “And None of Us Deserving the Cruelty or the Grace”?Buddhism and the Problem of Evil, by Amber D. Carpenter
7. How Much Is Enough? Greed, Prosperity, and the Economic Problem of Happiness?a Comparative Perspective, by Steven M. Emmanuel
8. What Do We Owe Future Generations? Compassion and Future Generations?a Buddhist Contribution to an Ethics of Global Interdependence, by Peter D. Hershock
Concluding Remarks, by Steven M. Emmanuel
For Further Reading and Study
Contributors
Index