Owen Flanagan, Ph.D.

Owen Flanagan, Ph.D.

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Owen Flanagan, Ph.D. is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. Flanagan has done work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, ethics, contemporary ethical theory, moral psychology, as well as Buddhist and Hindu conceptions of the self.

Flanagan earned his Ph.D from Boston University and his Bachelor of arts degree from Fordham University. He is the author most recently of "The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized" (MIT 2011).

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Bourgeois Buddhists: Do Americans Miss the Point of Buddhism?

(249) Comments | Posted September 19, 2011 | 4:37 PM

Last month when my new book, "The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized" (MIT, 2011) was published, I was deep in the jungle among the Achuar, an indigenous people living on two million acres of primary rain forest in southeastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. The Achuar had not been contacted...

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