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Owen J. Flanagan

Born

in The United States

January 01, 1949

Website

http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/ojf

Genre

Philosophy, Science

Influences

Aristotle, Wilfrid Sellars, Charles Darwin, Patricia Churchland

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Owen Flanagan, Ph.D. (born 1949) is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. Flanagan has done work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, ethics, contemporary ethical theory, moral psychology, as well as Buddhist and Hindu conceptions of the self.

Flanagan earned his Ph.D from Boston University and his Bachelor of arts degree from Fordham University.

Flanagan has written extensively on consciousness. He has been realistic about the difficulty of consciousness as a scientific and philosophical problem, but optimistic about the chance of solving the problem. One of the problems in a study of consciousness is the hidden way in which conscious states are d ...more

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	The Bodhisattva's Brain : Buddhism Naturalized 3.72 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them 3.78 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World 3.48 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Science of the Mind 4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility 3.71 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind 3.59 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Consciousness Reconsidered (Bradford Books) 3.47 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures 3.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Against Happiness by Owen J. Flanagan, Joseph E. LeDoux, Bobby Bingle 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Someday you will die. Because you are embodied through and through, at that point you will cease to exist. You will not meet death, because, as the sage says, "Where death is I am not; where I am death is not, so we never meet." When you die there will no longer be any self that is you. Use your self while you have it.”
― Owen J. Flanagan, The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them

tags: death, inspirational, materialism, poignant

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“Linking the phenomenological with the psychological and neural is a promising research strategy for understanding persons. It is, furthermore, the strategy now firmly in place.”
― Owen J. Flanagan, The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World

tags: philosophy

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“Many people who say that they are 'spiritual’ but not religious are saying that they are seeking to understand and develop a sense of connection to that which is greater than and more comprehensive than their self.
In this manner meaning is sought, possibly found and embodied in one’s life. The spiritual aspirations of such an individual do not, however, involve any theological beliefs. The individual might go to church, but not to worship God.”
― Owen J. Flanagan, The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World

tags: buddhism, meaning, philosophy

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