Georges Dreyfus (Williams College)
With responses from
Mark Siderits (Illinois State University)
"Self, Consciousness & Subjectivity:
A Preliminary Buddhist Account
How have Buddhist philosophers distinguished between self and subject? In the following lecture, Georges B. J. Dreyfus (professor of Religion at Williams College) explores the idea of the subject—not as an objective self-entity—but as process of self-awareness.
In what is perhaps best described as a work of "fusion philosophy," Dreyfus presents his case within a phenomenologically informed perspective that considers the philosophical ideas of Edmund Husserl, as well as contemporary thinkers like Dan Zahavi, Miri Albahari, and the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.

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