Really looking forward to this workshop! There’s going to be a high density of interesting folks here! https://wp.nyu.edu/attention/indian-philosophy-at-nyu/ …
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First talk, Sharon Street (virtually) on using insights from meditation to build a new response to Mackie’s argument from weirdness
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Looks like she’s going Advaita Vedanta...de se knowledge isn’t so weird, and if you see yourself as identical with the whole world, the weirdness problem goes away.
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The emerging view inthis talk feels almost Leibnizian to me...I was expecting Spinoza
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My worry: she’s smuggling in everything of normative import without an argument. If we’re aware of others qua pure awarenesses, there’s no moral content; if we’re aware of others qua distorted minds, we’ll be motivated to do whatever nasty things they happen to want...
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Second talk: Muhammad Faruque on Muhammad Iqbal and his Indian contemporary; the talk will focus on the paradox of self-knowledge (how can the self be both the subject who knows and the object of knowledge?)
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Sorry for the weird lighting, but here’s the conclusion slidepic.twitter.com/jocTLh4wDr
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Third talk:
@evantthompson on affect biased attention and nonconceptual awareness; I’m pretty sure I already agree, and have written a similar thing on Dharmakīrti! But we’ll see how it unfolds1 reply 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
Evan is focusing on the experience of pain, meditation, and the attentional shifts in the way that sensory, conceptual, and affective information is processed
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I’m even more certain now that the SOAP model from Truong and
@BecketTodd needs to play a critical role in a story of how apoha works! More to come in my book!2 replies 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread
Well I for one will be buying that book! 
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