William Waldron, PhD, Chair, Department of Religion, Middlebury College. This presentation will outline the Buddha’s basic understanding of our cognitive processes. It will discuss the factors … Read More
Giovanna Colombetti, DPhil, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter. In my talk I will advance some preliminary ideas on how to make progress in the … Read More
Linda Heuman, Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Religion, Brown University. In this talk, I reflect on the question of how to best communicate across difference in a … Read More
Gaëlle Desbordes, PhD, Instructor (research faculty) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-Harvard-MIT Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. I will begin by presenting the circumstances and choices … Read More
Amir Raz, PhD, Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada An integrative synthesis of hypnosis and meditation provides an especially interesting lens … Read More
David McMahan, PhD, Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall University. The scientific study of Buddhist and Buddhist-derived meditative practices often contains certain … Read More