What Is Meta-Cognitive Skill? Kindling a Conversation Between Culadasa and Contemporary Philosophy of Psychology

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ID16766281
AuthorsTadeusz Wiesław Zawidzki (0000-0001-7307-659X, Mind-Brain Institute, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume19
Issue2
Pages476-492
Publication date2018-07-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Buddhism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1463-9947 • E-ISSN: 1476-7953
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14639947.2018.1572325
OpenAlexW2912180227
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

I explore affinities and tensions between Culadasa’s model of meta-cognitive skill, in his recent The Mind Illuminated, and theories of skill and meta-cognition in contemporary philosophy of psychology. I find that, while there are many assumptions that these different approaches share, for the most part, contemporary philosophy of psychology has ignored the possibility that meta-cognitive skills can be cultivated through practice, as Culadasa persuasively argues. The one exception is Joëlle Proust’s recent The Philosophy of Metacognition. This work defends a model of procedural meta-cognition with some striking similarities to Culadasa’s notion of ‘meta-cognitive introspective awareness’, which he views as an important step in the development of śamatha. This is noteworthy, as they have clearly arrived at these notions completely independently, drawing on strikingly different kinds of evidence and argument. I conclude with some thoughts on distinctive puzzles that arise for Culadasa’s conception of meta-cognitive skill

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Conversation · Epistemology · Introspection · Metacognition · Metaphysics · Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of psychology · Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology

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