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Thompson, Evan

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Personal name headingThompson, Evan
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Associated countryCanada
LocatedVancouver (B.C.)
Birth date1962
Field of activityEducation, Higher Philosophy Consciousness Self Buddhism
AffiliationUniversity of British Columbia
Royal Society of Canada
University of California, Berkeley
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Københavns universitet
Ecole polytechnique (France)
University of Colorado Boulder
Amherst College
University of Toronto
York University (Toronto, Ont.)
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Visiting teachers Authors
Found inVarela, F.J. The embodied mind, 1991: CIP t.p. (Evan Thompson)
Colour vision, 1994: CIP t.p. (Evan Thompson) data sheet (b. 1962)
Why I am not a Buddhist, 2020: dust jacket (Evan Thompson is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada)
Evan Thompson's personal website, June 28, 2018: (Evan Thompson is a writer and professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He works on the nature of the mind, the self, and human experience; Evan received his A.B. from Amherst College in 1983 in Asian Studies and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1990. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto from 2005 to 2013, and held a Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science and the Embodied Mind at York University from 2002 to 2005. In 2014, he was the Numata Invited Visiting Professor at the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also held invited visiting appointments at the Faculty of Philosophy, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen, and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder)
   <https://evanthompson.me/>
Associated languageeng