Beyond the Self
Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience
$57.84
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
13 November 2018
Summary
Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation. In this book, Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk trained as a molecular biologis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262536141 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262536145 |
| Author: | Matthieu Ricard, Wolf Singer |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 13 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
About The Author
Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk, trained as a molecular biologist before moving to Nepal to study Buddhism. He is the author of The Monk and the Philosopher (with his father, Jean-Fran ois Revel);The Quantum and the Lotus (with Trinh Thuan); Happiness; The Art of Meditation; Altruism- The Power of Compassion; A Plea for the Animals; and Beyond the Self- Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience (with Wolf Singer). He has published several books of photography, including Motionless Journey and Tibet- An Inner Journey, and is the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama.Wolf Singer is Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and Founding Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and the Ernst Str ngmann Institute for Neuroscience in cooperation with the Max Planck Society, where he is also Senior Research Fellow. He is the coauthor of Beyond the Self- Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience (MIT Press).
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