2010 TSC

PLENARY 1   William James Centennial

Eugene Taylor

Could Radical Empiricism Guide Neurophenomenology as the Future of Neuroscience?

Eugene Taylor holds the BA and the MA in Experimental Psychology and  Asian Studies and the PhD in the History and Philosophy of Psychology.  He is an internationally recognized scholar in the life and work of  William James, an interpreter of Asian traditions in the West, and a  specialist in the history of psychodynamic theories of personality and the origins of Existential-Humanistic and Transpersonal psychology 

His most recent book is  The Mystery of Personality: A history of  psychodynamic theories (Springer, 2009). His works on  James include  William James on Exceptional Mental States (1982);  William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin (1996); and with Robert Wozniak(eds),  Pure Experience: The response to William James [1996). Forthcoming is  William James and the Spiritual Roots of American Pragmatism.  

Currently, Dr. Taylor is Professor of the History and Philosophy of  Psychology  at Saybrook University. He is also Executive Faculty liaison representing Saybrook's Institutional Affiliation with the Philemon Foundation, which is bringing out, in addition to Jung's Red Book, the 35.000 unpublished letters comprising the correspondence of Carl Jung and a new edition of Jung's complete works.  He is also the Chair of the Concentration in Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology at Saybrook. Dr. Taylor is Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Senior Psychologist on the Psychiatry Service at the  Massachusetts General Hospital, and Founder/Director of the Cambridge Institute of Psychology and Comparative Religions.

Eugene Taylor holds the BA and the MA in Experimental Psychology and  Asian Studies and the PhD in the History and Philosophy of Psychology.  He is an internationally recognized scholar in the life and work of  William James, an interpreter of Asian traditions in the West, and a  specialist in the history of psychodynamic theories of personality.   His most recent book is  The Mystery of Personality: A history of  psychodynamic theories (Springer, 2009). His works on  James include  William James on Exceptional Mental States (1982);  William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin (1996); and with Robert Wozniak(eds),  Pure Experience: The response to William James [1996). Forthcoming is  William James and the Spiritual Roots of American Pragmatism.  

Currently, Dr. Taylor is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Psychology  at Saybrook University; Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical  School; Senior Psychologist on the Psychiatry Service at the  Massachusetts General Hospital, and Founder/Director of the Cambridge  Institute of Psychology and Comparative Religions.