Self, No Self?
Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions
Edited by Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson, and Dan Zahavi
Author Information
Edited by Mark Siderits, Seoul National University, Evan Thompson, University of Toronto, and Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen
Mark Siderits is Professor of Philosophy at Seoul National University. He received his BA from University of Hawaii and his Ph.D. from Yale University. His work is situated in the intersection between analytic metaphysics and classical Indian philosophy. He is the author of Indian Philosophy of Language (Kluwer, 1991), Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons (Ashgate, 2003), and Buddhism as Philosophy (Hackett, 2007).
Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He received his B.A. from Amherst College in Asian Studies and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. He is the author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Harvard University Press, 2007) and Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception (Routledge Press, 1995). He is also co-author of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (MIT Press, 1991).
Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He obtained his Ph.D. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1994 and his Dr.phil. (Habilitation) from University of Copenhagen in 1999. He was elected member of Institut International de Philosophie in 2001 and of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2007. He has served as president of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology in the years 2001-2007, and is currently co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. In his systematic work, Zahavi has mainly been investigating the nature of selfhood, self-consciousness and intersubjectivity.
Contributors:
Miri Albahari is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia.
Georges Dreyfus was the first Westerner to receive the title of Geshe after spending fifteen years studying in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries. He is currently Professor of Religion of the Department of Religion at Williams College.
Wolfgang Fasching, University of Vienna
Jonardon Ganeri, University of Sussex
Joel W. Krueger, University of Copenhagen
Matthew MacKenzie, Colorado State University
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University
Mark Siderits, Seoul National University
Galen Strawson, Reading University
Evan Thompson, University of Toronto
Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen
