Sapientia Lecture Series

Evan Thompson (British Columbia). "Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?" Free and open to all. Reception follows.

April 26, 2017
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
103 Thornton Hall
Sponsored by
Philosophy Department
Audience
Public
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Marcia Welsh
603-636-3738

Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, works in the fields of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, Phenomenology, and cross-cultural philosophy, especially Asian philosophy and contemporary Buddhist philosophy in dialogue with Western philosophy and science. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2015),  Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Harvard University Press, 2007), Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception (Routledge Press, 1995), and the co-author of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (MIT Press, 1991; new expanded edition, 2015). For advance reading, please see Professor Thompson's paper, "Dreamless Sleep, the Embodied Mind, and Consciousness."

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth (ICE) and the Department of Philosophy. The Sapientia Lecture Series is funded by The Mark J. Byrne 1985 Fund in Philosophy.

Location
103 Thornton Hall
Sponsored by
Philosophy Department
Audience
Public
More information
Marcia Welsh
603-636-3738