John Vervaeke

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John Vervaeke is an award-winning professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of Toronto, where he directs the Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory. His landmark 50-episode lecture series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis draws on philosophy from Socrates to Heidegger to diagnose a deep cultural loss of meaning, while his research focuses on relevance realization, wisdom, and 4E (embodied, embedded, enacted, extended) models of cognition.

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Topics

Relevance RealizationRelational OntologyMeaning CrisisSystems ThinkingEmbodied CognitionCognitive ScienceOntological DesignNarrative and MythPolitical PhilosophyHermeneuticsEpistemologyPhenomenology

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