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Robert Wright, Princeton University

Lecture Videos

• Lecture One: The Buddhist Diagnosis
  • Introduction: Religious Buddhism and Secular Buddhism (11:29)
  • Feelings and Illusions (12:47)
  • The First Two Noble Truths (15:10)
  • Evolutionary Psychology and the First Two Noble Truths (21:13)
  • Office Hours for Lecture One (26:05)
• Lecture Two: The Buddhist Prescription
  • The Eightfold Path (13:28)
  • Meditation (15:41)
  • Mindfulness Meditation and the Brain (16:37)
  • Can Our Feelings Be Trusted? (15:33)
  • Office Hours for Lecture Two (22:16)
• Lecture Three: Does Your Self Exist?
  • The Buddha's Discourse on the Not-self (16:48)
  • What Did The Buddha Mean? (20:17)
  • Modern Psychology and the Self (22:53)
  • Office Hours for Lecture Three
• Lecture Four: A New Model of the Mind
  • Delusions about Ourselves (21:32)
  • What Mental Modules Aren't (8:20)
  • What Mental Modules Are (30:10)
  • Office Hours for Lecture Four (33:56)
• Lecture Five: Modules and Meditation
  • Choosing Selves Through Meditation (18:51)
  • Self Control (27:16)
  • The Experience of Not-self (20:18)
  • Office Hours for Lecture Five (34:58)
• Lecture Six: What is Enlightenment?
  • Not-self as Interconnection (23:27)
  • Essentialism and Emptiness (28:53)
  • Buddhist and Darwinian Enlightenment (31:37)
  • A Naturalistic Religion? (14:47)
  • Office Hours for Lecture Six (34:28)
  • Office Hours for Week Seven (42:49)
  • Office Hours for Week Eight