Peter D Hershock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1293775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter D Hershock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter D |
| FAMILY NAME | Hershock |
| SIGNATURE | HERSHOCK P D |
| AFFILIATIONS | East–West Center |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4394-6355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Beyond the attention economy, towards an ecology of attending. A manifesto
We endorse policymakers’ efforts to address the negative consequences of the attention economy’s technology but add that these approaches are often limited in their criticism of the systemic context of human attention. Starting from Buddhist philosophy, we advocate a broader approach: an ‘ecology of attending’ that centers on conceptualizing, designing, and using attention (1) in an embedded way and (2) focused on the alleviating of suffering. Wi…
A Middle Path for AI Ethics? Some Buddhist Reflections
There is no shortage of AI ethics principles and guidelines.1 These have been put forward from a wide range of perspectives, including those of academic, scientific, and professional associations
Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: A Futures Meditation
AI, Consciousness, and the Evolutionary Frontier: A Buddhist Reflection on Science and Human Futures
The technological advances and material control that have resulted from reductive and deterministic practices of science are quite real. The digitally mediated expansion of experiential freedoms-of-choice and the transformative problem-solving potential of artificial intelligence are undeniable. But for all its successes, reductive physicalism has failed to solve the so-called hard problem of consciousness. As a result, its successes are exposing…
Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism: Resources for a New Geopolitics of Interdependence
Human Beings or Human Becomings?: A Conversation with Confucianism on the Concept of Person
Human Beings or Human Becomings: A Conversation with Confucianism on the Concept of Person
Ethical Presence in the Age of Intelligent Technology: Learning from Buddhism and Classical Philosophy
Machine learning, big data and AI are reshaping the human experience and forcing us to develop a new ethical intelligence. Peter Hershock offers a new way to think about attention, personal presence, and ethics as intelligent technology shatters previously foundational certainties and opens entirely new spaces of opportunity. Rather than turning exclusively to cognitive science and contemporary ethical theories, Hershock shows how classical Confu…
The Intelligence Revolution and the New Great Game: A Buddhist Reflection on the Personal and Societal Predicaments of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
The most pressing challenges of the present and coming decades-among them, climate change; the degradation of both natural and urban environments; and rising inequalities of wealth, income, risk, and opportunity-are not technical problems. They are ethical predicaments that consist in deep (and often tragic) conflicts within and among our globally dominant systems of social, cultural, economic, and political values. Today, we are witnessing the e…
Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy
Li Zehou and new Confucianism : a philosophy for new global cultures / Jana S. Rosker -- Western learning as substance, Chinese learning for application : Li Zehou's thought on tradition and modernity / Karl-Heinz Pohl -- Modernizing Confucianism : Li Zehou's vision and inspiration for an unfinished project / Ming Dong Gu -- Determinism and the problem of individual freedom in Li Zehou's thought / Andrew Lambert -- What should the world look like…
Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance
“In Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance, English language readers get a rare opportunity to read the work in a single volume of one of Taiwan’s most distinguished scholars. Although Lee Ming-huei has published in English before, the corpus of his non-Chinese writings is in German. Readers of this volume will discover the hard-mindedness and precision of thinking associated with German philosophy as they enter into Lee’s discussions of…
Chan Buddhism
Chan Buddhism has become paradigmatic of Buddhist spirituality. Known in Japan as Zen and in Korea as Son, it is one of the most strikingly iconoclastic spiritual traditions in the world. This succinct and lively work clearly expresses the meaning of Chan as it developed in China more than a thousand years ago and provides useful insights into the distinctive aims and forms of practice associated with the tradition, including its emphasis on the …
Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order
In a single generation, the rise of Asia has precipitated a dramatic sea change in the world’s economic and political orders. This reconfiguration is taking place amidst a host of deepening global predicaments, including climate change, migration, increasing inequalities of wealth and opportunity, that cannot be resolved by purely technical means or by seeking recourse in a liberalism that has of late proven to be less than effective. The present…
Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance
In Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance, English language readers get a rare opportunity to read the work in a single volume of one of Taiwan’s most distinguished scholars. Although Lee Ming-huei has published in English before, the corpus of his non-Chinese writings is in German. Readers of this volume will discover the hard-mindedness and precision of thinking associated with German philosophy as they enter into Lee’s discussions of …
Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order
In a single generation, the rise of Asia has precipitated a dramatic sea change in the world's economic and political orders. This reconfiguration is taking place amidst a host of deepening global predicaments, including climate change, migration, increasing inequalities of wealth and opportunity, that cannot be resolved by purely technical means or by seeking recourse in a liberalism that has of late proven to be less than effective. The present…
Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence
Public Zen, Personal Zen: A Buddhist Introduction
Introduction Part I: Zen Origins Chapter 1: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha from India to China Chapter 2: The Japanese Transformation of Buddhism Chapter 3: From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen Part II: Public Zen Chapter 4: Rinzai Zen Chapter 5: Soto Zen Chapter 6: Obaku Zen Chapter 7: Zen in a Modernizing Japan Part III: Personal Zen Chapter 8: Practicing Zen Chapter 9: Zen Exemplars: Dogen, Ikkyu, Hakuin, and Ryokan Chapter 10: Zen Here and Now
Valuing Diversity: Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future
Confucian Cultures of Authority
Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium
Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism
Person as Narration: The Dissolution of 'Self' and 'Other' in Ch'an Buddhism
Granted the premise that things and the world comprising them exist in some nonarbitrary and not purely subjective sense, persons are almost unavoidably taken to be relatively autonomous individuals who can enter into relations both with one another and with other similarly existing parts of the world. That is, persons are typically thought of as living in the world, as standing out from it as unique and well-defined entities or processes dwellin…
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Person as Narration: The Dissolution of 'Self' and 'Other' in Ch'an Buddhism
Granted the premise that things and the world comprising them exist in some nonarbitrary and not purely subjective sense, persons are almost unavoidably taken to be relatively autonomous individuals who can enter into relations both with one another and with other similarly existing parts of the world. That is, persons are typically thought of as living in the world, as standing out from it as unique and well-defined entities or processes dwellin…
Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism
Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium
Confucian Cultures of Authority
Valuing Diversity: Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future
Public Zen, Personal Zen: A Buddhist Introduction
Introduction Part I: Zen Origins Chapter 1: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha from India to China Chapter 2: The Japanese Transformation of Buddhism Chapter 3: From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen Part II: Public Zen Chapter 4: Rinzai Zen Chapter 5: Soto Zen Chapter 6: Obaku Zen Chapter 7: Zen in a Modernizing Japan Part III: Personal Zen Chapter 8: Practicing Zen Chapter 9: Zen Exemplars: Dogen, Ikkyu, Hakuin, and Ryokan Chapter 10: Zen Here and Now
Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence
Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance
“In Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance, English language readers get a rare opportunity to read the work in a single volume of one of Taiwan’s most distinguished scholars. Although Lee Ming-huei has published in English before, the corpus of his non-Chinese writings is in German. Readers of this volume will discover the hard-mindedness and precision of thinking associated with German philosophy as they enter into Lee’s discussions of…
Chan Buddhism
Chan Buddhism has become paradigmatic of Buddhist spirituality. Known in Japan as Zen and in Korea as Son, it is one of the most strikingly iconoclastic spiritual traditions in the world. This succinct and lively work clearly expresses the meaning of Chan as it developed in China more than a thousand years ago and provides useful insights into the distinctive aims and forms of practice associated with the tradition, including its emphasis on the …
Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order
In a single generation, the rise of Asia has precipitated a dramatic sea change in the world’s economic and political orders. This reconfiguration is taking place amidst a host of deepening global predicaments, including climate change, migration, increasing inequalities of wealth and opportunity, that cannot be resolved by purely technical means or by seeking recourse in a liberalism that has of late proven to be less than effective. The present…
Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance
In Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance, English language readers get a rare opportunity to read the work in a single volume of one of Taiwan’s most distinguished scholars. Although Lee Ming-huei has published in English before, the corpus of his non-Chinese writings is in German. Readers of this volume will discover the hard-mindedness and precision of thinking associated with German philosophy as they enter into Lee’s discussions of …
Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order
In a single generation, the rise of Asia has precipitated a dramatic sea change in the world's economic and political orders. This reconfiguration is taking place amidst a host of deepening global predicaments, including climate change, migration, increasing inequalities of wealth and opportunity, that cannot be resolved by purely technical means or by seeking recourse in a liberalism that has of late proven to be less than effective. The present…
Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy
Li Zehou and new Confucianism : a philosophy for new global cultures / Jana S. Rosker -- Western learning as substance, Chinese learning for application : Li Zehou's thought on tradition and modernity / Karl-Heinz Pohl -- Modernizing Confucianism : Li Zehou's vision and inspiration for an unfinished project / Ming Dong Gu -- Determinism and the problem of individual freedom in Li Zehou's thought / Andrew Lambert -- What should the world look like…
The Intelligence Revolution and the New Great Game: A Buddhist Reflection on the Personal and Societal Predicaments of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
The most pressing challenges of the present and coming decades-among them, climate change; the degradation of both natural and urban environments; and rising inequalities of wealth, income, risk, and opportunity-are not technical problems. They are ethical predicaments that consist in deep (and often tragic) conflicts within and among our globally dominant systems of social, cultural, economic, and political values. Today, we are witnessing the e…
Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism: Resources for a New Geopolitics of Interdependence
Human Beings or Human Becomings?: A Conversation with Confucianism on the Concept of Person
Human Beings or Human Becomings: A Conversation with Confucianism on the Concept of Person
Ethical Presence in the Age of Intelligent Technology: Learning from Buddhism and Classical Philosophy
Machine learning, big data and AI are reshaping the human experience and forcing us to develop a new ethical intelligence. Peter Hershock offers a new way to think about attention, personal presence, and ethics as intelligent technology shatters previously foundational certainties and opens entirely new spaces of opportunity. Rather than turning exclusively to cognitive science and contemporary ethical theories, Hershock shows how classical Confu…
A Middle Path for AI Ethics? Some Buddhist Reflections
There is no shortage of AI ethics principles and guidelines.1 These have been put forward from a wide range of perspectives, including those of academic, scientific, and professional associations
Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: A Futures Meditation
AI, Consciousness, and the Evolutionary Frontier: A Buddhist Reflection on Science and Human Futures
The technological advances and material control that have resulted from reductive and deterministic practices of science are quite real. The digitally mediated expansion of experiential freedoms-of-choice and the transformative problem-solving potential of artificial intelligence are undeniable. But for all its successes, reductive physicalism has failed to solve the so-called hard problem of consciousness. As a result, its successes are exposing…
Beyond the attention economy, towards an ecology of attending. A manifesto
We endorse policymakers’ efforts to address the negative consequences of the attention economy’s technology but add that these approaches are often limited in their criticism of the systemic context of human attention. Starting from Buddhist philosophy, we advocate a broader approach: an ‘ecology of attending’ that centers on conceptualizing, designing, and using attention (1) in an embedded way and (2) focused on the alleviating of suffering. Wi…
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