Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, works in the fields of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, Phenomenology, and cross-cultural philosophy, especially Asian philosophy and contemporary Buddhist philosophy in dialogue with Western philosophy and science. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2015),  Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Harvard University Press, 2007), Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception (Routledge Press, 1995), and the co-author of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (MIT Press, 1991; new expanded edition, 2015). For advance reading, please see Professor Thompson's paper, "Dreamless Sleep, the Embodied Mind, and Consciousness."

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth (ICE) and the Department of Philosophy. The Sapientia Lecture Series is funded by The Mark J. Byrne 1985 Fund in Philosophy.