Category: News

While at Zen Brain 2013, I was interviewed by Joanna Harcourt of Future Primitive.org. Click here for the interview. →

A dialogue/debate with Owen Flanagan at Northwestern University, March 4, 2013. You can watch the video of the debate by clicking here. →

Understanding Consciousness: Is Physicalism Enough? Monday March 4, 2013, at 4pm. My position statement: The scientific method gives us no direct and independent access to consciousness itself–no direct access, because third-person observations are always of the behavioral and physiological expressions of consciousness, not consciousness itself; and no independent access because the scientific method itself presupposes →

Starting July 1, 2013, I will be joining the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver as a Full Professor. I’m very excited about this move! →

Self, No Self? Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions will be out in paperback from Oxford University Press in February 2013. →

From mid-April to mid-May, 2013, I’ll be a Mind and Life Institute Visiting Senior Scholar at Amherst College. →

During the spring semester of 2014, I’ll be an invited Numata Visiting Professor at the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. I’ll be giving one graduate seminar (probably on the contemporary encounter between Buddhism and Western science and philosophy), as well as participating in other events. I’m looking forward to this →

MIT Press will publish a new, expanded edition of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, in 2014. There will be two new introductions, one by me and one by Eleanor Rosch. There will also be a new foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn (author of Full Catastrophe Living and creator of the Mindfulness Based Stress →