Abstract. This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel’s idealism as oriented by a philosophical and logical concept of life, focusing on Hegel’s Scienc

We have never known more about the biology of death, but we have never been more removed from the experience of dying. Science on its own cannot illuminate t... | CUP

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The concept of autopoiesis, introduced by Varela and Maturana (1974) to characterize the organizational closure shared by all living systems, has rema…

Recently, there has been a burgeoning interest in the so-called group flow state both in positive psychology and in the phenomenology of collective agency. Group flow is a form of collective agency i...

The $4.2 million Templeton Foundation grant launches a new institute to investigate one of science’s biggest mysteries.

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Many people experience “resilient grief,” i.e. a rapid emotional recovery after bereavement, leading philosophers to ask whether grief fittingly diminishes or ends despite remaining fitting. In thi...

What if connection—not separation—was the starting point for thinking about the human self? In The Relational Mind, philosopher and cognitive sci...

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Science and religion have long been thought incompatible. But nowhere has this apparent contradiction been more fully resolved than in the figure of A. S. Eddington (1882–1944), a pioneer in astrophys...

Neuroscience needs to stop treating the brain as if it is a computer.

Professor Evan Thompson has recently been named a UBC Distinguished University Scholar and awarded the 2026 Mind–Matter Prize by the Society for Mind–Matter Research. Together, these honors are a test...

Abstract. The pursuit of a scientific theory of consciousness has gained momentum in neuroscience over the past 25 years. While much research has centered

The empirical foundation of science has often been characterised in terms of the observable-unobservable distinction, developed either syntactically, as a set of statements, or semantically, as aspect...

Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (2012 [1945]) opens with a detailed critique of traditional philosophical accounts of sensation, generally understood as having Husserl's “content-apprehen....

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Sharing this dialogue with @Evan Thompson again just to make sure people have read this book: The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience(2024) By Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Th...

A proper account of affective memory must distinguish it from here-and-now emotions directed to the past (i.e., present emotions about past events) and semantic emotional memory (i.e., remembering the...

The rapid advances in the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have galvanised public and scientific debates over whether artificial systems m…

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The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience – and might...

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