Thompson, E.

Thompson, E. on the DRL

Authors of English Works • Professors

Evan Thompson

English Phonetics	Evan Thompson
Sort Name	Thompson, Evan

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

About

Biographical Information

Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and an Associate Member of the Department of Psychology and the Department of Asian Studies. He studies the mind, life, consciousness, and the self, from the perspectives of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and cross-cultural philosophy (especially Buddhism and other Indian philosophical traditions). He co-authored The Embodied Mind (1991) with Francisco Varela and Eleanor Rosch; his recent books include Why I Am Not a Buddhist (2020) and Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (2015).

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Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena.