Classical Indian Philosophies of Perception and Consciousness: A Contemporary Reconstruction
Grant Data
Project Title
Classical Indian Philosophies of Perception and Consciousness: A Contemporary Reconstruction
Principal Investigator
Professor Chaturvedi, Amit
(Principal Investigator (PI))
Duration
39
Start Date
2019-07-01
Amount
197134
Conference Title
Classical Indian Philosophies of Perception and Consciousness: A Contemporary Reconstruction
Keywords
Attention, Classical Indian Philosophy, Consciousness, Cross-Cultural Philosophy, Philosophy of Perception
Discipline
Philosophy
HKU Project Code
27620419
Grant Type
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Funding Year
2019
Status
Completed
Objectives
1) To reconstruct from Nyāya and Buddhist sources a naturalized account of the roles that attention, memory, and concepts play in structuring conscious perceptual experience, which further offers a novel response to current discussions of non-conceptual content, cognitive penetration, and phenomenal consciousness; 2) To complete four essays for submission to top-ranked journals in the history of philosophy and the philosophy of mind; 3) To produce new translations of Sanskrit philosophical texts and manuscripts which either have remained untranslated and undiscussed in modern scholarship, or whose existing translations are outdated; 4) To prepare a book proposal for a monograph that introduces non-specialist readers to classical Indian theories of perception and consciousness, and situates these theories within the logical space of current philosophical debates.