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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: Depend"
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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 invitation—in response to his edited volume of
essays on the topic of free will in Buddhism, Buddhist Perspectives on
Free Will: Agentless Agency?—to which I am also a
contributor (“Grasping”). In the article (for which Repetti was also
the editor), I compliment Repetti’s analysis of the topic and his own
substantive account of a Buddhist theory of free will, but am critical
of the way he frames an affirmative answer to the question of why there
should be a Buddhist theory of free will. My arguments concern
comparative and historical method—namely, the importance of considering
critical differences between Buddhist and Western ideas and what Buddhists
have said
when imagining what they can
say about a topic. In his reply, Repetti wonders whether we have been
talking past each other. Here I attempt to clarify the nature and scope
of my critique and to correct some of the points on which Repetti seems
to have misread it.Read article
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