ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 Talking Past Each Other? Reply to Rick Repetti Karin Meyers Insight Meditation Society This essay is a response to Rick Repetti’s “It Wasn’t Me: Reply to Karin Meyers,” in respect to my article, “False Friends: Dependent Origination and the Perils of Analogy in Cross-Cultural Philosophy.” My article was written—at Repetti’s … Continue reading Reply to Rick Repetti
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 It Wasn’t Me: Reply to Karin Meyers Rick Repetti Kingsborough Community College City University of New York This is my reply to Karin Meyers, “False Friends: Dependent Origination and the Perils of Analogy in Cross-Cultural Philosophy,” in this Symposium. Meyers generally focuses on exegesis of what Early Buddhists said, which … Continue reading It Wasn’t Me: Reply to Karin Meyers
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 It Wasn’t Us: Reply to Michael Brent Rick Repetti Kingsborough Community College City University of New York In “Confessions of a Deluded Westerner,” Michael Brent insists no contributions to Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will (Repetti) even address free will because none deploy the criteria for free will that Western (incompatibilist) … Continue reading It Wasn’t Us: Reply to Michael Brent
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 A Role for Primordial Wisdom in the Buddhist Free Will Controversy Marie Friquegnon William Paterson University In Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will (Repetti), I set forth my position on Buddhism and free will in terms of three ways of understanding the issue of freedom in Buddhism. Here I first offer … Continue reading Primordial Wisdom and the Buddhist Free Will Controversy
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 Buddhist Philosophy, Free Will, and Artificial Intelligence James V. Luisi Independent Scholar Can Buddhist philosophy and Western philosophical conceptions of free will intelligently inform each other? Repetti has described one possible Buddhist option of solving the free will problem by identifying a middle path between the extremes of rigid determinism, … Continue reading Free Will and Artificial Intelligence
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 Confessions of a Deluded Westerner Michael Brent University of Denver In this paper, I aim to make two general points. First, I claim that the discussions in Repetti (Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency?) assume different, sometimes conflicting, notions of free will, so the guiding question of the book … Continue reading Confessions of a Deluded Westerner
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 Symposium on Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency? Rick Repetti Kingsborough Community College City University of New York 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 … Continue reading Symposium on “Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency?”
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 21, 2014 Recent Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and Beyond Riccardo Repetti Kingsborough College, CUNY This is the fourth article in a four-article series that examines Buddhist responses to the Western philosophical problem of whether free will is compatible with “determinism,” the scientific doctrine of universal lawful causation. The first … Continue reading Recent Buddhist Theories of Free Will
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 20, 2013 The Metaphysics of No-Self: A Determinist Deflation of the Free Will Problem Vishnu Sridharan For over two millennia, the free will problem has proven intractable to philosophers, scientists, and lay people alike. However, Buddhism offers us unique insight into how, when, and why human agency matters to us. In his … Continue reading A Determinist Deflation of the Free Will Problem
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 19, 2012 Buddhist Hard Determinism: No Self, No Free Will, No Responsibility Riccardo Repetti Kingsborough College, CUNY This is the third article in a four-article series that examines Buddhist responses to the Western philosophical problem of whether free will is compatible with “determinism,” the doctrine of universal causation. The first article (“Earlier”) … Continue reading Buddhist Hard Determinism
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 19, 2012 Buddhist Reductionism and Free Will: Paleo-compatibilism Riccardo Repetti Kingsborough College, CUNY This is the second article in a four-article series that examines Buddhist responses to the Western philosophical problem of whether free will is compatible with “determinism,” the doctrine of universal causation. The first article focused on the first publications … Continue reading Buddhist Reductionism and Free Will: Paleo-compatibilism
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 17, 2010 Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism Riccardo Repetti Kingsborough College, City University of New York This is the first part of a four-article series that examines Buddhist accounts of free will. The present article introduces the issues and reviews earlier attempts by Frances Story, Walpola Rāhula, Luis Gómez, and … Continue reading Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatiblism
ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 17, 2010 Meditation and Mental Freedom: A Buddhist Theory of Free Will Riccardo Repetti Kingsborough College, City University of New York I argue that central Buddhist tenets and meditation methodology support a view of free will similar to Harry Frankfurt’s optimistic view and contrary to Galen Strawson’s pessimistic view. For Frankfurt, free … Continue reading A Buddhist Theory of Free Will
General Editor Victor Forte Albright College Associate Editor James Mark Shields Bucknell University Technical Editor Daniel Cozort Dickinson College Assistant Editor Ananda Reed Assistant Editor Rick Repetti Assistant Editor Dion Peoples Area Editors Erik Hammerstrom Pacific Lutheran University China and East Asia Matthew Walton University of Toronto Theravada/South … Continue reading Journal Editors and Editorial Board