Cognitive Science @ University of Toronto

	Jim John Program Director Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday 10:00am - 11:00am or by appointment Address: Jackman Humanities Building 170 St. George Street, Room 507 Tel: 416-946-3402 Fax: 416-978-8703 Email: jim.john@utoronto.ca Please note: Professor John will be away from July 25th until August 25th. For advising questions during this absense, please contact the Cog Sci Undergraduate Counselor, Eric Correia this email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Evan Thompson received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1990. His work bridges cognitive science, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and Buddhism. Among his numerous publications are The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (MIT Press, 1991; co-authored with Francisco Varela and Eleanor Rosch), Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception (Routledge Press, 1995), and Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Harvard University Press, in press). He is currently working on a new book titled Buddha and the Brain: Contemplative Insight and the Neuroscience of Consciousness. He joined the University of Toronto as a full professor in 2005 from York University where he held a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Cognitive Science and the Embodied Mind and was a member of the Centre for Vision Research and the director of the Cognitive Science Program. [personal homepage]
	John Vervaeke has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. An award-winning teacher, he regularly teaches UNI250 Introduction to Cognitive Science. He also teaches the psychology courses PSY370 Thinking and Reasoning and PSY371 Higher Cognitive Processes.