Contents

1. Critical Questions Towards a Naturalized Concept of Karma in Buddhism

   Dale S. Wright

2. Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Buddhist Morals: A New Analysis of puñña and kusala, in light of sukka

   Martin T. Adam

3. Hey Lama, How About a Little Something for the Effort?: The Significance of Merit and Merit Transfer in Santideva's Morality

   Barbra Clayton

4. Reflections on Kant and Karma

   Bradford Cokelet

5. Karma, Rebirth, and Mental Causation

   Christian Coseru

6. Can American Buddhism Accomodate Karma?

   Jim Deitrick

7. Valuing Karma: A Critical Concept for Orienting Interdependence Toward Personal and Public Good

   Peter D. Hershock

8. Karma, Rebirth, and the Problem of Evil

   Whitley R. P. Kaufman

9. Karma, Character and Consequentialism

   Damien Keown

10. The Karma of Others: Stories from the Milindapañha and the Petavatthuatthakatha

    Jessica Main

11. Questioning Karma: Buddhism and the Phenomenology of the Ethical

    Eric Sean Nelson

12. Ethical Ambiguity and the Buddhist Concept of Dark and Bright Action

    Abraham Vélez de Cea

13. The Reactionary Use of Karma in Twentieth-Century Japan

    Brian Victoria