Evan Thompson is a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he is also an associate member of the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Psychology. He is the author of many books, including Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation and Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2015). He is the co-author of The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience (MIT Press, 2025). He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a past president of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, and a contributor to the Observatory.
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