Evan Thompson

Evan Thompson (born 1962) is an American philosopher, professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia.

Quotes

 * We human beings constitute and reconstitute ourselves through cultural traditions, which we experience as our own development in a historical time that spans the generations. To investigate the life-world as horizon and ground of all experience therefore requires investigating none other than generativity - the processes of becoming, of making and remaking, that occur over the generations and within which any individual genesis is always already situated... Individual subjectivity is intersubjectively and culturally embodied, embedded, and emergent.
 * Evan Thompson, ''Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. Harvard University Press, 2010. p. 36


 * Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal one passes from the natural attitude of the scientist to the transcendental phenomenological attitude.
 * Evan Thompson, ''Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. Harvard University Press, 2010. p. 86.