-
32Color vision: A case study in the Foundations of Cognitive ScienceRevue de Synthèse 111 (1-2): 129-138. 1990.
-
213Can Tai Chi and Qigong Postures Shape Our Mood? Toward an Embodied Cognition Framework for Mind-Body ResearchFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 12. 2018.
-
19Enaction Without Hagiography (review)Constructivist Foundations 13 (1): 41-44. 2017.Vörös and Bitbol provide a helpful account of the depths of enaction but their hagiographic rhetoric and neglect of important historical facts and recent developments work at cross-purposes to their account.
-
754Developing Attention and Decreasing Affective Bias: Towards a Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science of MindfulnessIn Richard M. Ryan John D. Creswell Kirk W. Brown (ed.), Handbook of Mindfulness: Theory and Research,, Guilford Press. 2015.
-
62Problem umysł-ciało-ciałoAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (T). 2012.Robert Hanna and Evan Thompson offer a solution to the Mind-Body-Body Problem. The solution, in a nutshell, is that the living and lived body is metaphysically and conceptually basic, in the sense that one’s consciousness, on the one hand, and one’s corporeal being, on the other, are nothing but dual aspects of one’s lived body. One’s living and lived body can be equated with one’s being as an animal; therefore, this solution to the Mind-Body-Body Problem amounts to an “animalist” version of the…Read more
-
39Umysł w życiu. Streszczenie „Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind”Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (T): 83-95. 2011.[Précis of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind] The theme of this book is the deep continuity of life and mind. Where there is life there is mind, and mind in its most articulated forms belongs to life. Life and mind share a core set of formal or organizational properties, and the formal or organizational properties distinctive of mind are an enriched version of those fundamental to life.
-
769The Philosophy of Mind WanderingIn Fox Kieran & Christoff Kalina (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought and Creativity, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.Our paper serves as an introduction to a budding field: the philosophy of mind-wandering. We begin with a philosophical critique of the standard psychological definitions of mind-wandering as task-unrelated or stimulus-independent. Although these definitions have helped bring mind-wandering research onto centre stage in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, they have substantial limitations that researchers must overcome to move forward. Specifically, the standard definitions do not account for…Read more
-
Empathy and consciousnessJournal of Consciousness Studies 8 (5-7): 1-32. 2001.This article makes five main points. Individual human consciousness is formed in the dynamic interrelation of self and other, and therefore is inherently intersubjective. The concrete encounter of self and other fundamentally involves empathy, understood as a unique and irreducible kind of intentionality. Empathy is the precondition of the science of consciousness. Human empathy is inherently developmental: open to it are pathways to non-egocentric or self-transcendent modes of intersubjectivity…Read more
-
Précis of Mind in LifeJournal of Consciousness Studies 18 (5-6): 10-22. 2011.The theme of this book is the deep continuity of life and mind. Where there is life there is mind, and mind in its most articulated forms belongs to life. Life and mind share a core set of formal or organizational properties, and the formal or organizational properties distinctive of mind are an enriched version of those fundamental to life. I take a twofold approach to these ideas in Mind in Life. On the one hand, I try to show that to be a living organism is physically to realize or instantiat…Read more
-
Are There Neural Correlates of Consciousness?Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (1): 3-28. 2004.In the past decade, the notion of a neural correlate of consciousness has become a focal point for scientific research on consciousness. A growing number of investigators believe that the first step toward a science of consciousness is to discover the neural correlates of consciousness. Indeed, Francis Crick has gone so far as to proclaim that ‘we need to discover the neural correlates of consciousness. For this task the primate visual system seems especially attractive. No longer need one spend…Read more
-
The Mind-Body-Body ProblemAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (T): 23-42. 2012.Robert Hanna and Evan Thompson offer a solution to the Mind-Body-Body Problem. The solution, in a nutshell, is that the living and lived body is metaphysically and conceptually basic, in the sense that one’s consciousness, on the one hand, and one’s corporeal being, on the other, are nothing but dual aspects of one’s lived body. One’s living and lived body can be equated with one’s being as an animal; therefore, this solution to the Mind-Body-Body Problem amounts to an “animalist” version of the…Read more
-
Colour Vision and the Comparative Argument, a Case Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of PerceptionDissertation, University of Toronto (Canada). 1990.In this thesis, I show how decisions about the ontology of colour depend upon the empirical and conceptual relations among levels of explanation for vision. In Chapter 1, I show how the "received" Lockean view of colour is linked to Newton's theory of light and colour. In Chapter 2, I review extensively recent biological, psychophysical, and computational models of colour vision, and I discuss their relations. I also show how the ontological status of colour is linked to these levels of explanat…Read more
-
2Philosophical theories of consciousness: Asian perspectivesIn Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch & Evan Thompson (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
-
IntroductionIn Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson & Dan Zahavi (eds.), Self, no self?: perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions, Oxford University Press. 2011.
-
9Sensomotorische Subjektivität und die enaktive Annäherung an ErfahrungIn Wolfgang Welsch, Christian Tewes & Klaus Vieweg (eds.), Natur und Geist: über ihre evolutionäre Verhältnisbestimmung, Akademie Verlag. pp. 125. 2011.
-
Living Ways of Sense MakingAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (T): 38-58. 2012.Evan Thompson’s paper has four parts. First, he says more about what he means when he asks, “what is living?” Second, he presents his way of answering this question, which is that living is sense-making in precarious conditions. Third, he responds to Welton’s considerations about what he calls the “affective entrainment” of the living being by the environment. Finally, he addresses Protevi’s remarks about panpsychism.
-
14Living Ways of Sense MakingIn Oliver Müller & Thiemo Breyer (eds.), Funktionen des Lebendigen, De Gruyter. pp. 25-42. 2016.
-
7
-
2Consciousness: An introductionIn Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch & Evan Thompson (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--3. 2007.
-
91Planetary thinking/planetary building: An essay on Martin Heidegger and Nishitani KeijiPhilosophy East and West 36 (3): 235-252. 1986.
-
76Perceptual completion: A case study in phenomenology and cognitive scienceIn Jean Petitot, Francisco J. Varela, Bernard Pachoud & Jean-Michel Roy (eds.), Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, Stanford University Press. pp. 161--195. 1999.
-
10Filling-In: Visual Science and the Philosophy of PerceptionIn Denis Fisette (ed.), Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution, Springer. pp. 145--161. 1999.
-
2333From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a Cross-Cultural Cognitive ScienceIn Steven M. Emmanuel (ed.), A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, Wiley. 2013.Buddhism originated and developed in an Indian cultural context that featured many first-person practices for producing and exploring states of consciousness through the systematic training of attention. In contrast, the dominant methods of investigating the mind in Western cognitive science have emphasized third-person observation of the brain and behavior. In this chapter, we explore how these two different projects might prove mutually beneficial. We lay the groundwork for a cross-cultural co…Read more
-
175Colour fascinates all of us, and scientists and philosophers have sought to understand the true nature of colour vision for many years. In recent times, investigations into colour vision have been one of the main success stories of cognitive science, for each discipline within the field - neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence, and philosophy - has contributed significantly to our understanding of colour. Evan Thompson's book is a major contribution t…Read more
-
331Neurophenomenology: An introduction for neurophilosophersIn Andrew Brook & Kathleen Akins (eds.), Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement, Cambridge University Press. pp. 40. 2005.• An adequate conceptual framework is still needed to account for phenomena that (i) have a first-person, subjective-experiential or phenomenal character; (ii) are (usually) reportable and describable (in humans); and (iii) are neurobiologically realized.2 • The conscious subject plays an unavoidable epistemological role in characterizing the explanadum of consciousness through first-person descriptive reports. The experimentalist is then able to link first-person data and third-person data. Yet…Read more
-
61Filling-in: One or many?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (6): 1137-1139. 2001.(1) The main issue with regard to modal and amodal completion is not which phenomena are cognitive, and which perceptual. At the level of the animal, both are visuo-cognitive. At the level of visual processing, however, we need to dissect the different functional effects of these kinds of completion. (2) Resonant binding between distributed cortical areas may play a role in perceptual completion, but evidence is needed.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada