Contemplation in Contexts: Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Across the Boundaries of the Humanities and Sciences. David Germano, PhD, Director, Center for Contemplative Sciences, Univ. of Virginia
– and the problem of the “not said” Preliminary ideas on how to make progress in the field of contemplative neuroscience from a neurophenomenological perspective
David Germano, PhD, Director, Center for Contemplative Sciences, Univ. of Virginia. We will explore Tibetan Buddhist meditation in the complexity of its forms in classical sources, … 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
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
Ken Paller, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Research on the cognitive neuroscience of human memory has gathered an empirical basis for … Read More
Francisca Cho, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Theology, Georgetown University. Western observers appreciate the way Buddhism’s non-theism allows relatively more harmony with science, but they also insist … Read More
Michael Sheehy, PhD, Director of programs, Mind and Life Institute, Charlottesville, VA. Considering the interface of Buddhism / science, we begin with historical and semantic reflections … Read More