Evan Thompson

Waking, Dreaming, Being

Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
Mitarbeit: Batchelor, Stephen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cognitive science joins with Asian contemplative traditions and philosophy to bring revolutionary meaning to the human experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 820g
• ISBN-13: 9780231137096
• ISBN-10: 0231137095
• Artikelnr.: 40950790

Autorenporträt

Evan Thompson is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author ofColour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception (1995) and Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (2007) and coauthor of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (1991, revised edition, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Stephen Batchelor
Prologue: The Dalai Lama's Conjecture
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Seeing: What Is Consciousness?
2. Waking: How Do We Perceive?
3. Being: What Is Pure Awareness?
4. Dreaming: Who Am I?
5. Witnessing: Is This a Dream?
6. Imagining: Are We Real?
7. Floating: Where Am I?
8. Sleeping: Are We Conscious in Deep Sleep?
9. Dying: What Happens When We Die?
10. Knowing: Is the Self an Illusion?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"In a game-changing book that is both an intellectual tour-de-force and the courageous statement of a lifes ideal, Evan Thompson brilliantly demonstrates how Indian philosophical thought can join forces with the neurosciences to create a new science of the conscious mind. A must-read for anyone who believes that the future of philosophy is cross-cultural." - Jonardon Ganeri, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sussex and Professorial Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies