Evan Thompson

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Evan Thompson (* 1962 ) is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver . His main areas of work are the philosophy of mind , the philosophy of perception , the philosophy of biology and the cognitive sciences .

Thompson received his BA in Asian Studies from Amherst College in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1990 . While Thompson was writing his dissertation , he worked from 1986 to 1989 with the Chilean neurobiologist Francisco Varela at the Center de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée (CRÉA) of the Paris École polytechnique . Between 1989 and 1991 Thompson conducted research with Daniel Dennett at Tufts University . This was followed by teaching activities at various universities, including in Boston, Paris, Copenhagen, Montreal and York.

In collaboration with Francisco Varela , Eleanor Rosch , Alva Noë and the Dalai Lama , Thompson became better known for his sensational work on the philosophy of mind , which transcended the traditional view of the cognitive sciences - that perception and consciousness are based on an input / output principle - is aimed at. Instead, Thompson, under the influence of phenomenology and Buddhism , represents a so-called “sensorimotor account” (also known as “enactive cognition”) of consciousness: According to Thompson, perception and consciousness as well as the qualia involved are products that arise from cognitive activity , ie they do not just happen, but arise through interaction with the environment.

Thompson is a member of the Mind and Life Institute, founded in 1990 . In 2013 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada .

literature

  • Evan Thompson & Stephen Batchelor: Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy. Columbia University Press, New York 2015. ISBN 978-0-231-13709-6 .
  • Evan Thompson: Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2007. ISBN 978-0-674-02511-0 .
  • Evan Thompson & Giovanna Colombetti (eds.): Emotion Experience. Imprint Academic, Exeter / Charlottesville 2005. ISBN 978-1-845-40029-3 .
  • Evan Thompson (ed.): The Problem of Consciousness. New Essays in Phenomenological Philosophy of Mind. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 29, University of Calgary Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-919-49129-8 .
  • Evan Thompson & Alva Noë (eds.): Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception. MIT Press, 2002. ISBN 0-262-14078-0 .
  • Evan Thompson: Between Ourselves: Second Person Issues in the Study of Consciousness. Imprint Academic, Thorverton / Charlottesville 2001. ISBN 978-0-907-84514-0 .
  • Evan Thompson: Color Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception. Routledge Press, 1995. ISBN 0-415-07717-6 .
  • Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson & Eleanor Rosch: The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Revised Edition, MIT Press, 2017. ISBN 0-262-52936-X .

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SURNAME Thompson, Evan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1962