John Vervaeke
John Vervaeke is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in Psychology, Cognitive Science and Buddhist Psychology. His academic interests include wisdom, mindfulness, meditation, relevance realization, general intelligence, rationality. He is the author of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Youtube series and co-author of Zombies in Western Culture: A 21st Century Crisis.
He has been engaging in Dialogos, alongside Jordan Hall and Guy Sengstock, and other conversations on Youtube.
About: Integrating science and spirituality to solve the Meaning Crisis. John Vervaeke is an Assistant Professor, in the teaching stream. He has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 1994. He currently teaches courses in the Cognitive Science program including Introduction to Cognitive Science, and the Cognitive Science of Consciousness; courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on insight problem solving, cognitive development with an emphasis on the dynamical nature of development, and higher cognitive processes with an emphasis on intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the Psychology of wisdom. He also teaches a course in the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health program on Buddhism and Cognitive Science. He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards including the 2001 Students’ Administrative Council and Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students Teaching Award for the Humanities, and the 2012 Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. He has published articles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, metaphor, and wisdom. His abiding passion is to address the meaning crisis that besets western culture.
Links: Personal Website: www.johnvervaeke.com
Social:
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/vervaeke_john
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/VervaekeJohn
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/john-vervaeke-a910992
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke
Information of podcast episodes with John Vervaeke below. Last episode recorded here Jan 31, 2020. If you know of an episode not listed here, message to let Anya know.
| Date | Broadcaster | Broadcast Title | Transcript Link | Primary URL |
| 05-11-19 | guy sengstock | Dialogos 1 - Jordan Hall, John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro & Guy Sengstock | https://otter.ai/s/CQmg7D7NQxSTpVZzVVP5Sw | https://youtu.be.com/7g6rwOa-pGs |
| 15-11-19 | John Vervaeke | Vervaeke and Hall begin to design the religion that is not a religion (Part I) | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rQlFBn5V6r90lycBoCouI6oJPh12tnrw/view?usp=sharing | https://youtu.be/nl48eFZGRq8 |
| 11-12-19 | guy sengstock | Dialogos 2 - Jordan Hall, John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro & Guy Sengstock | https://drive.google.com/open?id=173H-RGOJB0WXpjGUCkM4othBKu2LsIKe | https://youtu.be/UovLJTLbFhU |
| 31-01-20 | John Vervaeke | John and Jordan II On the religion that is not a religion (Part II) | https://youtu.be/H6xfZZ5T0Lk |