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Investigating the mind [videorecording] : session 1 : attention & cognitive control
On a September weekend in 2003 at M.I.T., psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers met with the Dalai Lama and Buddhists scholars to discuss Buddhist and scientific perspectives on attention, ...
The Buddhist tradition of samatha : methods for refining and examing consciousness
Samatha is a Buddhist meditative technique for the refinement of attention. Here, expert in the study and practice of samatha, B. Alan Wallace, outlines the nature and purpose of samatha, the various...
A cognitive science dialogue : consciousness East and West
Buddhist scholar B. Alan Wallace and contemporary philosopher of mind John Searle join for a discussion and debate on Buddhist and Western approaches to a science of consciousness. Wallace, who's app...
Empathy and human experience
Philosopher of mind Evan Thompson provides a model for a methodologically and ethically mature science of consciousness using "first-person" (introspective) methods to understand the mind and human ex...
The retinal blind spot in the scientific vision of our origins
In this webcast, B. Alan Wallace, a scholar of Buddhism and science, looks at the history and philosophy of science. Drawing extensively on his background in the cognitive and physical sciences, he ar...
Who will be the scientists? a review of B. Alan Wallace's 'The Taboo of Subjectvity'
This article is a review of B. Alan Wallace's The Taboo of Subjectivity : Toward a New Science of Consciousness. Petranker tackles some of the more complex issues raised by Wallace such as whet...
Who will be the scientists? a review of B. Alan Wallace's 'The Taboo of Subjectvity' (pdf)
This article is a review of B. Alan Wallace's The Taboo of Subjectivity : Toward a New Science of Consciousness. Petranker tackles some of the more complex issues raised by Wallace such as whet...
The intersubjective worlds of science and religion
B. Alan Wallace, a scholar of Buddhism and science, gives a lecture on the role of science and religion in human experience. He focusses particularly on how the mind can be considered amenable to scie...
The taboo of subjectivity : toward a new science of consciousness
In this book Alan Wallace, a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism and with a background in science, argues for a new science of consciousness that takes subjectivity into account. He makes the point t...
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