The bilateral mind as the mirror of nature : a metaphilosophy / James Blachowicz.
Blachowicz, James, 1943- author.
2023
BF311
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access
Concurrent users Unlimited
Authorized users Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Details

Title The bilateral mind as the mirror of nature : a metaphilosophy / James Blachowicz.
Author Blachowicz, James, 1943- author.
ISBN 9783031144783 (electronic bk.)
3031144783 (electronic bk.)
3031144775
9783031144776
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14478-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 348 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-14478-3 doi
Call Number BF311
Dewey Decimal Classification 153
Summary This book provides a framework that encompasses both physics and cognitive science integrating them into a theory of everything to establish a basis for both our scientific and humanistic endeavours. It explores the implications of brain laterality for understanding the emergence of mind and its relation to the physical world arguing that the analytic vs. holistic cognitive differences of the left and right human cerebral hemispheres are key to understanding not only human self-consciousness and language, but also sociocultural phenomena ranging from the emergence of the scientific method and axes of political orientation to the direction of development of conceptions of God and the fundamental differences between polarizing philosophical traditions. In a further step, the book draws on the Darwinian principle that our cognitive apparatus is shaped by the environment in which it evolved to argue that human bilaterality mirrors the fundamental hylomorphic relation between formal organization and material components that constitutes physical nature itself. The logical division between holistic and analytic categories thereby offers a principled basis for a metaphilosophy. James Blachowicz is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Available in Other Form BILATERAL MIND AS THE MIRROR OF NATURE.
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
Chapter 1: Introduction: Analysis and Holism
Part I: METAPHYSICS
Chapter 2: Reductionism and Emergence
Chapter 3: Purely Physical Emergence
Chapter 4: Protective Enclosures and the Emergence of Life
Chapter 5 :Virtual Reality and the Emergence of Mind
Chapter 6: Physics and Theology: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
PART II: EPISTEMOLOGY
Chapter 7: Inter-Hemispheric Dialogue
Chapter 8: One Method for All Inquiry
PART III: MORAL and POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 9: Morality and the Rational Control of Desire
Chapter 10: Freud and the Physics of Civilization
Chapter 11: Hemispheric Politics
PART IV: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION and NATURAL THEOLOGY
Chapter 12: Archaic and Modern Religious Ontologies
Chapter 13: An Empty Holy of Holies
PART V: ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 14: Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export