The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized

Acknowledgments

Many people, a strange mix of straight-arrow analytic philosophers, neurophilosophers , comparative philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, Buddhist laypersons, monks, nuns, and Buddhist studies scholars, helped me create this work: Roger Ames, Julia Annas, James Austin, Stephen Batchelor , Doug Berger, Pamela Buck, Troy Catterson, Arindam Chakrarbarti, Win Chiat, Patricia Smith Churchland, Robert Conrad, Robina Courtin, Richie Davidson, Ronald De Sousa, Georges Dreyfus, Paul Ekman, Jay Garfield, Carl Gillett, Jonathan Gold, Daniel Goldman, Charles Goodman, Alison Gopnik, Tenzin Gyatso (the 14th Dalai Lama), Sam Harris, Rob Hogendoorn, Marion Hordequin, P. J. Ivanhoe, Richard Jaffe, Tao Jiang, Thupten Jinpa, Christopher Kelley, Shian-Ling Keng, Damien Keown, Brian Knudsen, Joel Kupperman, Tim Lane, Donald S. Lopez Jr., Antoine Lutz, Tim McHenry, Matt McKenzie, D. K Nauriyal, Tom Polger, Elizabeth Price, Wayne Proudfoot , Matthieu Ricard, Alex Rosenberg, Richard Baker Roshi,Andy Rotman, Hagop Sarkissian, Robert Sharf, Nancy Sherman, Mark Siderits, Sam Sims, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Ted Slingerland, Tamler Sommers, Andrew Terjesen, Evan Thompson, Robert Thurman, Jeannie Tsai, Francisco Varela, Alan Wallace, Joyce Walworth, Jan Westerhoff, and David Wong. There are many others in audiences at universities in the United States, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Ireland, United Kingdom, Holland, Brazil, and South Africa who helped me a lot. I am grateful to them all. Finally, I am grateful to Tom Stone who acquired this book for MIT Press and to Phil Laughlin who sheperded it to publication. Acknowledgments ...