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Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. The Way the World Is The Christian Perspective of a Scientist The Christian Perspective of a Scientist Revised
Book SynopsisIn this brief and highly accessible book for general readers, distinguished physicist-turned-theologian John Polkinghorne presents a reasoned account of the Christian view of the world as seen by the one of the world's leading interpreters of the interface between science and religion. Drawing from his experiences as a scientist and a...
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INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US The Physics Of Consciousness The Quantum Mind And The Meaning Of Life
Book SynopsisFor decades, neuroscientists, psychologists, and an army of brain researchers have been struggling, in vain, to explain the phenomenon of consciousness. Now there is a clear trail to the answer, and it leads through the dense jungle of quantum physics, Zen, and subjective experience, and arrives at an unexpected destination. In this tour-de-force of scientific investigation, Evan Harris Walker shows how the operation of bizarre yet actual properties of elementary particles support a new and exciting theory of reality, based on the principles of quantum physics-a theory that answers questions such as What is the nature of consciousness, of will? What is the source of material reality? and What is God?
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Book SynopsisThomas Kuhn''s shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern classic. His influence on philosophy, social science, historiography, feminism, theology, and (of course) the natural sciences themselves is unparalleled. His epoch-making concepts of new paradigm' and scientific revolution' make him probably the most influential scholar of the twentieth century. Sharrock and Read take the reader through Kuhn''s work in a careful and accessible way, emphasizing Kuhn''s detailed studies of the history of science, which often assist the understanding of his more abstract philosophical work. These historical studies provide vital insight into what Kuhn was actually trying to achieve in his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: an endeavour far less extreme than either his foes' or his fans' claim. In the book''s second half, Sharrock and Read provide excellent explications, defences anTrade Review"As Thomas Kuhn indicated in the first sentence of his great book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, his aim was to “produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed”. Unfortunately, many of Kuhn's readers have been possessed by a distorted image of Kuhn's own position, and so failed to appreciate the signal contribution he made to our understanding of scientific practice. Sharrock and Read aim to do for our image of Kuhn what Kuhn did for our image of science. They succeed brilliantly, giving a wonderfully insightful and nuanced account of what Kuhn was up to and what he achieved." Peter Lipton, University of Cambridge Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Abbreviations for Kuhn's Works. Introduction: The Legendary Thomas Kuhn. Part I Exposition. 1 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2 The Historical Case Studies. Part II Critical Issues. 3 Kuhn and the Methodologists of Science. 4 Incommensurability 1: Relativism about Truth and Meaning. 5 Incommensurability 2: World Changes. Conclusion: The Unresolved Tension. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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Polity Press Daniel Dennett
Book SynopsisDaniel Dennett is one of the most influential thinkers at the interface between philosophy and science. This book is the first comprehensive examination of Dennett's ideas on the nature of thought, consciousness, free will, and the significance of Darwinism. A highly original introduction to contemporary thinking about the relationship between mind and science. This is the first comprehensive examination of Dennett's ideas on the nature of thought, consciousness, free will, and the significance of Darwinism. Examines Dennett's unique response to the question of when and how science should affect the conception that we have of ourselves. Casts new light on specific controversies: Could robots ever think, feel, and enjoy freedom? Does Dennett really explain consciousness? Are mental states real or merely useful fictions'? Do we have free will? Is the self a centre of narrative gravity'Trade Review"Elton's book will be an invaluable companion for anyone hoping to get to grips with Dennett's rich and expansive vision." David Bain, The Philosophical Quarterly April 2005 ‘For over thirty years Daniel Dennett has been among the most important, innovative and engaging philosophers in the world. With the appearance of his book, Consciousness Explained, in 1991, his fame and his influence spread throughout the academic world and beyond. While there has been a great deal written about Dennett’s ideas, until now we have had no systematic, integrated account of the "real patterns" that run through Dennett’s philosophy. Elton’s clear, readable and well-informed book provides just such an account. This is the ideal book for readers – and they are many – who’ve been captivated by reading Dennett’s work and want to understand how the themes that he explores with such intellectual exuberance fit together in an integrated account of human agents and the sciences that study them.’ – Professor Stephen Stich, Department of Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University ‘This is an excellent introduction to the twists and turns of Dennett’s thinking. In guiding the reader through a luminous yet sometimes puzzling maze of images, empirical excursions, thought experiments and hard arguments, Matthew Elton lays bare the deep unifying agenda that animates all of Dennett’s work. Combining the roles of careful critic and generous host, Elton’s patient excavations will help the novice and excite the expert.’ – Professor Andy Clark, Director of the Cognitive Science Program, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Abbreviations. Preface. 1. Dennett and the Philosophy of Mind. 2. Adopting A Stance. 3. Real Patterns. 4. Different Kinds Of Psychology. 5. Explaining Consciousness: The Basic Account. 6. Explaining Consciousness:Developments, Doubts And The Self. 7. Dennett's Darwin. 8. A Variety Of Free Will Worth Wanting. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index
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Springer Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy Second Book Studies in the Phenomenology of Constitution Husserliana Edmund Husserl Collected Works 3
Table of ContentsSection One The Constitution of Material Nature.- one: The Idea of Nature in General.- § 1. Preliminary delineation of the concepts of nature and experience..- (Exclusion of meaning predicates).- § 2. The natural-scientific attitude as a theoretical attitude.- § 3. Analysis of the theoretical attitude, of the theoretical interest.- § 4. Theoretical acts and “pre-giving” intentional lived experiences.- § 5. Spontaneity and passivity; actuality and inactuality of consciousness.- § 6. The distinction between the transition into the theoretical attitude and the transition into reflection.- § 7. Objectivating and non-Objectivating acts and their correlates.- § 8. The sense-objects as primal constitutive objects.- § 9. Categorial and aesthetic (“sensuous”) synthesis.- § 10. Things, spatial phantoms, and the data of sensation.- § 11. Nature as sphere of mere things.- Two: The Ontic Sense-Strata of the Thing of Intuition as Such.- § 12. Material and animal nature.- § 13. The significance of extension for the structure of “things” in general and of material things in particular.- § 14. The significance of extension for the structure of animalia.- § 15. The essence of materiality (substance).- a) Phenomenological analysis of the givenness of the thing as a way toward determining the essence, “material thing.”.- b) Mobility and alterability as constituents of the material thing; the thing-schema.- c) Exhibition of the materiality of the thing by way of its dependence on circumstances.- d) The schema as real determinateness of the material thing.- e) More precise determination, redetermination, and cancellation of the thing-experience.- § 16. The constitution of the properties of the thing in multiple relations of dependency.- § 17. Materiality and substantiality.- Three: The Aestheta in Their Relation to the Aesthetic Body.- § 18. The subjectively conditioned factors of the constitution of the thing; the constitution of the Objective material thing.- a) The intuitive qualities of the material thing in their dependencies on the experiencing subject-Body.- b) The significance of normal perceptual conditions for the constitution of the intuited thing and the significance of abnormalities.- c) The significance of psychophysical conditionality for the various levels of constitution.- d) The physicalistic thing.- e) Possibility of the constitution of an “Objective nature” on the solipsistic level.- f) Transition from solipsistic to intersubjective experience.- g) More precise characterization of the physicalistic thing.- h) The possibility of the constitution of an “Objective nature” at the level of intersubjective experience.- Section Two The Constitution of Animal Nature.- § 19. Transition to the consideration of the soul as a natural Object.- § 20. The sense of the ordinary talk about the “psychic”.- § 21. The concept of “I as man”.- One: The Pure Ego.- § 22. The pure Ego as Ego-pole.- § 23. The possibility of grasping the pure Ego (the Ego-pole).- § 24. “Mutability” of the pure Ego.- § 25. Polarity of acts: Ego and Object.- § 26. Alert and dull consciousness.- § 27. “I as man” as part of the content of the environment of the pure Ego.- § 28. The real Ego constituted as transcendent Object; the pure Ego as given in immanence.- § 29. Constitution of unities within the sphere of immanence. Persistent opinions as sedimentations in the pure Ego.- Two: Psychic Reality.- § 30. The real psychic subject.- § 31. The formal-universal concept of reality.- § 32. Fundamental differences between material and psychic reality..- § 33. More precise determination of the concept of reality.- § 34. Necessity of the distinction between the naturalistic and the personalistic attitudes.- Three: The Constitution of Psychic Reality Through the Body.- § 35. Transition to the study of the constitution of “man as nature”.- § 36. Constitution of the Body as bearer of localized sensations (sensings).- § 37. Differences between the visual and tactual realms.- § 38. The Body as organ of the will and as seat of free movement.- § 39. Significance of the Body for the constitution of higher Objectivities.- § 40. More precision concerning the localization of the sensings and concerning the non-thingly properties of the Body.- § 41. Constitution of the Body as material thing in contrast to other material things.- a) The Body as center of orientation.- b) Peculiarity of the manifolds of appearance of the Body.- c) The Body as integral part of the causal nexus.- § 42. Character of the Body as constituted solipsistically.- Four: The Constitution of Psychic Reality in Empathy.- § 43. Givenness of other animalia.- § 44. Primal presence and appresence.- §45. Animalia as primally present Corporeal bodies with appresented interiority.- § 46. Significance of empathy for the constitution of the reality “I as man.”.- § 47. Empathy and the constitution of nature.- Section Three The Constitution of the Spiritual World.- § 48. Introduction.- One: Opposition Between the Naturalistic and Personalistic Worlds.- § 49. The personalistic attitude versus the naturalistic.- a) Introjection of the soul as presupposition even for the naturalistic attitude.- b) Localization of the psychic.- c) Temporalization of the psychic. (Immanent time and space-time).- d) Reflection on method.- e) The naturalistic attitude and the natural attitude.- § 50. The person as center of a surrounding world.- §51. The person in personal associations.- § 52. Subjective manifolds of appearance and Objective things.- § 53. The relationship between the consideration of nature and the consideration of the spirit.- Two: Motivation as the Fundamental Law of the Spiritual World.- § 54. The Ego in the inspectio sui.- § 55. The spiritual Ego in its comportment toward the surrounding world.- § 56. Motivation as the fundamental lawfulness of spiritual life.- a) Motivation of reason.- b) Association as motivation.- c) Association and experiential motivation.- d) Motivation in its noetic and noematic aspects.- e) Empathy toward other persons as an understanding of their motivations.- f) Natural causality and motivation.- g) Relations between subjects and things from the viewpoint of causality and of motivation.- h) Body and spirit as comprehensive unity: “spiritualized” Objects.- § 57. Pure Ego and personal Ego as Object of reflexive self-apperception.- § 58. The constitution of the personal Ego prior to reflection.- § 59. The Ego as subject of faculties.- § 60. The person as subject of acts of reason, as “free Ego”.- a) The “I can” as practical possibility, as neutrality modification of practical acts, and as original consciousness of abilities.- b) The “I can” motivated in the person’s knowledge of himself Self-apperception and self-understanding.- c) The influence of others and the freedom of the person.- d) General type and individual type in understanding persons.- § 61. The spiritual Ego and its underlying basis.- Three: The Onto logical Priority of the Spiritual World over the Naturalistic.- § 62. The interlocking of the personalistic attitude and the naturalistic attitude.- § 63. Psychophysical parallelism and interaction.- §64. Relativity of nature, absoluteness of spirit.- Supplements.- Supplement I: Attempt at a step-wise description of constitution.- Supplement II: The Ego as pole and the Ego of habitualities.- Supplement III: The localization of the ear noises in the ear.- Supplement IV: Sketch of an introduction to “The constitution of the spiritual world.”.- Supplement V: The pregivennesses of the spirit in spiritual life.- Supplement VI: Inspectio sui (“I do” and “I have”).- Supplement VII: The Ego and its “over-and-against.”.- Supplement VIII: On the unity of “Body” and “spirit”.- Supplement IX: Spiritual products.- Supplement X: Personal Ego and surrounding world (333)—The levels of the constitution of Objective reality (336)— Pure Ego and personal Ego (337).- Supplement XI: The human being apprehended in an inductive-natural way and the free person.- Supplement XII: Supplements to Section Three.- I. The Person—The Spirit and Its Psychic Basis.- § 1. The distinction between primal sensibility and intellectusAgens.- § 2. Sensibility as the psychic basis of the spirit.- Excursus: impression and reproduction.- § 3. Development of the Ego—Ego-action and Ego-affection.- II. Subjectivity as Soul and as Spirit in the Attitude of the Natural Sciences and in the Attitude of the Human Sciences.- § 1. The reality of the soul and of the human being.- § 2. Psychophysical causality and the causal nexus of things.- § 3. Possibility of the insertion of the soul into nature.- § 4. The human being as spiritual subject.- § 5. Empathy as spiritual (not naturalistic) relation between subjects.- § 6. Spiritual Ego and psychological Ego.—Constitution of the Ego as self-apperception.- § 7. Subjects considered as nature and as spirit.- § 8. Distinction between a psychological and a psychophysical analysis.- § 9. Stream of consciousness, lived experience, and intentional correlates as nexuses of psychic life.- § 10. The spiritual considered psychologically and the question of its “explanation.”—Two concepts of nature.- § 11. The human sciences posit subjectivity as absolute. —“Inner” and “outer” experience.- § 12. Nature in the human-scientific attitude.—The human-scientific and the phenomenological attitude.- Supplement XIII: “Personal subjectivity” as theoretical theme,.- Supplement XIV: Human-scientific attitude—Natural science incorporated into the human-scientific attitude.—Mere nature as surrounding world (389)—The various types of intuitive causality (390)—Abstract-scientific investigations (391)—Natural science within human science (392)—The concept of Objectivity (398).- Epilogue.
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