Emergence and Emanation-Part 2 | Dr. John Vervaeke, Bishop Maximus, and Archimandrite Patapios 

Part 2 of the panel discussion with Dr. John Vervaeke, a well-known Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Bishop Maximus of Pelagonia, a Visiting Instructor at the Seminary, and Archimandrite Patapios Hagiogrēgoritēs, Dean of the Seminary, is now on RU-vid!
In this second installment of the panel discussion, the topic of emergence and emanation is further explored.
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Dr. Vervaeke Bio: Dr. John Vervaeke is an Associate Professor, in the teaching stream. He has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 1994. He currently teaches 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 is the director of the Cognitive Science program where he also teaches courses on the introduction to Cognitive Science, and the Cognitive Science of consciousness wherein he emphasizes 4E (embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended) models of cognition and consciousness . In addition, he taught a course in the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health program on Buddhism and Cognitive Science for fifteen years. He is the director of the Consciousness and the Wisdom Studies Laboratory. 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, flow, metaphor, and wisdom. He is first author of the book Zombies in Western Culture: A 21st Century crisis which integrates Psychology and Cognitive Science to address the meaning crisis in Western society. He is the author and presenter of the RU-vid series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, and the series After Socrates.