Evan Thompson (University of British Columbia)

Waking, Dreaming, Being

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780231136952
• ISBN-10: 0231136951
• Artikelnr.: 47435484

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

"Extraordinary and exciting claims... beautiful ideas." Cosmos and Culture