Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada
Evan Thompson is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His books include Waking, Dreaming, Being (2015) and, co-authored with Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser, The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience (2024).
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History of science
Clock time contra lived time
Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right?
Evan Thompson
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Philosophy of science
The blind spot
It’s tempting to think science gives a God’s-eye view of reality. But we forget the place of human experience at our peril
Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser & Evan Thompson