Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: B. Alan Wallace, a scholar of Buddhism and science, gives a lecture on the role of science and religion in human experience. He focusses particularly on how the mind can be considered amenable to scientific study using first-person (introspective) methodologies. He offers counter-arguments to possible objections from the viewpoint of scientific materialists against such a study of the mind and discusses the intersubjective nature of truths and truth-claims. As he says, this lecture further pursues ideas raised in his book The Taboo of Subjectivity. This website includes a link to a webcast and transcript of the lecture, including responses from fellow scholars, and a question-and-answer session. (Zach Rowinski 2004-05-18)

Means of availability: The video webcast of the lecture requires RealPlayer.

Associated Information:

Wallace, B. Alan. The Taboo of Subjectivity : Toward a New Science of Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Information on the Science, Religion, and the Human Experience lectures series