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"Probing 'Mind & Life'"
Rob Hogendoorn is the founder and Director of the MindRealm Institute and a doctoral candidate at Leiden University, Netherlands. In this lecture he presents some of his research on the intellectual and philosophical dynamic between the Dalai Lama and Western scientists from the Mind & Life Institute.
Georges Dreyfus (Williams College)
"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.
