Beyond Physicalism

Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality
Herausgeber: Crabtree, Adam; Marshall, Paul; Kelly, Edward F.

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Produktbeschreibung

In Beyond Physicalism, an interdisciplinary group of physical scientists, behavioral and social scientists, and humanists from the Esalen Institute's Center for Theory and Research argue that physicalism must be replaced by an expanded scientific naturalism that accommodates something spiritual at the heart of nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1058g
• ISBN-13: 9781442232389
• ISBN-10: 1442232382
• Artikelnr.: 41622156

Autorenporträt

Edward F. Kelly is a research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, with interests in psychical research and functional neuroimaging. He is lead author of three previous books: Computer Recognition of English Word Senses; Altered States of Consciousness and Psi: An Historical Survey and Research Prospectus; and Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century. Adam Crabtree is a psychotherapist in private practice and on the faculty of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in Toronto, with interests in the history of animal magnetism and hypnotism, as well as the history and practice of psychodynamic psychology. He is author of six books including From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Root of Psychological Healing; Multiple Man; and Memoir of a Trance Therapist. Paul Marshall is an independent researcher with interests in mysticism, philosophy and psychology of religion, science-religion relations, and consciousness studies. He is author of two previous books, The Living Mirror: Images of Reality in Science and Mysticism; and Mystical Encounters with the Natural World: Experiences and Explanations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Science and Spirituality at a Crossroads, Edward F. Kelly
Part I. The Essential Background: "Rogue" Phenomena in Search of a Theory
1. Empirical Challenges to Theory Construction, Edward F. Kelly 2. Mystical
Experiences as Windows on Reality, Paul Marshall Part II. Old and New
Worldviews that Accommodate the Targeted Phenomena 3. The "Transmission"
Model of Mind and Body: A Brief History, Michael Grosso 4. A
Psychobiological Perspective on "Transmission" Models, Edward F. Kelly and
David E. Presti 5. A Quantum Mechanical Theory of the Mind/Brain
Connection, Henry P. Stapp 6. Mind-Matter Correlations in Dual-Aspect
Monism According to Pauli and Jung, Harald Atmanspacher and Wolfgang Fach
7. Hyperspatial Models of Matter and Mind, Bernard Carr 8. Platonic
Siddhas: Supernatural Philosophers of Neoplatonism, Gregory Shaw 9.
Patanjali's Yoga S¿tras and the Siddhis, Edward F. Kelly and Ian Whicher
10. Conscious Body: Mind and Body in Abhinavagupta's Tantra, Loriliai
Biernacki 11. Why We Are Conscious of So Little: A Neo-Leibnizian Approach,
Paul Marshall 12. Continuity of Mind: A Peircean Vision, Adam Crabtree 13.
Mind Beyond Body: Transphysical Process Metaphysics, Eric M. Weiss Part
III. Putting the Pieces Together 14. Toward a Worldview Grounded in Science
and Spirituality, Edward F. Kelly 15. The Emergence of Evolutionary
Panentheism, Michael Murphy