Michael McGhee
Dr. Michael McGhee used to teach philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He was a founding editor of Contemporary Buddhism and is author of Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice and Spirituality for the Godless: Buddhism, Humanism, and Religion.
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The debate goes back at least 400 years.