Clifford Saron, PhD, Research Scientist, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. Francisco Varela, in a 1984 interview stated that “science, in its core, its active … Read More
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
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
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