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Irreducible Mind

Edward F. Kelly

  • EAN: 9781442202061
Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:16 november 2009
Aantal pagina's:832
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Edward F. Kelly
Tweede Auteur:Emily Williams Kelly
Co Auteur:Edward F. Kelly
Hoofduitgeverij:Rowman & Littlefield
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Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:152 mm
Product hoogte:51 mm
Product lengte:222 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:133 mm
Verpakking hoogte:47 mm
Verpakking lengte:223 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:1160 g


Productbeschrijving

Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms. Topics addressed include phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and secondary personality, near-death experiences and allied phenomena, genius-level creativity, and 'mystical' states of consciousness both spontaneous and drug-induced. The authors further show that these rogue phenomena are more readily accommodated by an alternative 'transmission' or 'filter' theory of mind/brain relations advanced over a century ago by a largely forgotten genius, F. W. H. Myers, and developed further by his friend and colleague William James. This theory, moreover, ratifies the commonsense conception of human beings as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with leading-edge physics and neuroscience. The book should command the attention of all open-minded persons concerned with the still-unsolved mysteries of the mind.