Background
As a child, Thompson was home-schooled at the Lindisfarne Association, a think tank and retreat founded by his father, William Irwin Thompson.
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Evan Thompson
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Education
In 1977, Thompson met Chilean phenomenologist Francisco Varela when Varela attended a Lindisfarne conference which was organized by Thompson and Gregory Bateson. Thompson received a Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1990 and an Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies from Amherst College in 1983.
Career
Thompson has taught at the University of Toronto, Concordia University, Boston University, and York University. Thompson has held visiting appointments at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Thompson worked with Francisco Varela at Canadian Real Estate Association (Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquée) at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
During this time, Varela and Thompson wrote The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience.
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Thompson"s book, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind, explores how life relates to mind.
Membership
While at York University, Thompson was also a member of the Centre for Vision Research.
