Empathy and Human Experience

Science, Religion, and the Human Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Thompson, Evan ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buddhism; Cognitive science; Consciousness; Empathy; Experience; Phenomenology; Religion; Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644508235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195175328.003.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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