Irreducible Mind

Produktbeschreibung

Practically every contemporary mainstream scientist presumes that all aspects of mind are generated by brain activity. We demonstrate the inadequacy of this picture by assembling evidence for a variety of empirical phenomena which it cannot explain. We further show that an alternative picture developed by F. W. H. Myers and William James successfully accommodates these phenomena, ratifies the common sense view of ourselves as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with contemporary physics and neuroscience. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Preface and Acknowledgments 1. A View from the Mainstream:
Contemporary Cognitive Neuroscience and the Consciousness Debates 2. F. W. H.
Myers and the Empirical Study of the Mind-Body Problem 3. Psychophysiological
Influence 4. Memory 5. Automatism and Secondary Centers of Consciousness 6.
Unusual Experiences Near Death and Related Phenomena 7. Genius 8. Mystical
Experience 9. Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century About the Authors
References Appendix: An Annotated Introductory Bibliography of Psychical
Research 

Autoreninfo

Edward F. Kelly is currently research professor in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia. He is author ofComputer Recognition of English Word Senses and Altered States of Consciousness andPsi: An Historical Survey and Research Prospectus. His central long term interests revolve around mind-brain relations and functional neuroimaging studies of unusual states of consciousness and associated cognitive phenomena. Emily Williams Kelly is currently research assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia.Adam Crabtree is currently on the faculty of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy, Toronto.Alan Gauld is a retired reader in psychology, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, as well as past president of the Society for Psychical Research.Bruce Greyson is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. Michael Grosso, though nominally retired, is currently teaching at the University of Virginia's School of Continuing Education. He is currently a director of the American Philosophical Practitioner's Association and Review Editor of the Journal of Philosophical Practice.