William Waldron

William Waldron, PhD, is the Chair of the Department of Religion at Middlebury College and has published extensively in Indian Buddhist philosophy of mind, focused on the relationship between the Yogācāra school of Indian Buddhism in relation to trends in cognitive science. He has been a fellow at Mind and Life since 2011. His publications on related topics include: The Buddhist Unconscious in 2003, ‘Buddhist Steps to an Ecology of Mind’ in 2002, and, most recently, ‘Reflections on Indian Buddhist Thought and the Scientific Study of Meditation’ in Meditation, Buddhism and Science, and ‘Teaching Yogācāra Buddhism Using Cognitive Science’ in Teaching Buddhism: New Insights on Understanding and Presenting the Tradition(s), both in 2016. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Nepal in 2007-08, and has lectured and taught on Buddhism and Science in Japan, Nepal, Hong Kong, India, Denmark, and the United States. This academic year, he is further exploring issues related to the Institute in a course co-taught with Associate Professor Kim Cronise, a behavioral neuroscientist and psychopharmacologist.