Beyond physicalism : toward reconciliation of science and spirituality / edited by Edward F. Kelly, Adam Crabtree, and Paul Marshall.
Kelly, Edward F., editor.; Crabtree, Adam, editor.; Marshall, Paul (Paul David), editor.
2015
BL241 .B445 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Beyond physicalism : toward reconciliation of science and spirituality / edited by Edward F. Kelly, Adam Crabtree, and Paul Marshall.
ISBN 9781442232389 (hardcover)
1442232382 (hardcover)
9781442232402 (electronic book)
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Language English
Description xxix, 602 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number BL241 .B445 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 201/.65
Summary The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing acceptance among intellectual elites of a worldview that conflicts sharply both with everyday human experience and with beliefs widely shared among the world's great cultural traditions. Most contemporary scientists and philosophers believe that reality is at bottom purely physical, and that human beings are nothing more than extremely complicated biological machines. On such views our everyday experiences of conscious decision-making, free will, and the self are illusory by-products of the grinding of our neural machinery. It follows that mind and personality are necessarily extinguished at death, and that there exists no deeper transpersonal or spiritual reality of any sort. Beyond Physicalism is the product of an unusual fellowship of scientists and humanities scholars who dispute these views. In their previous publication, Irreducible Mind, they argued that physicalism cannot accommodate various well-evidenced empirical phenomena including paranormal or psi phenomena, postmortem survival, and mystical experiences. In this new theory-oriented companion volume they go further by attempting to understand how the world must be constituted in order that these "rogue" phenomena can occur. Drawing upon empirical science, metaphysical philosophy, and the mystical traditions, the authors work toward an improved "big picture" of the general character of reality, one which strongly overlaps territory traditionally occupied by the world's institutional religions, and which attempts to reconcile science and spirituality by finding a middle path between the polarized fundamentalisms, religious and scientific, that have dominated recent public discourse.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Kelly, Edward F., editor.
Crabtree, Adam, editor.
Marshall, Paul (Paul David), editor.
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Introduction: science and spirituality at a crossroads / Edward F. Kelly
I: The essential background: "rogue" phenomena in search of a theory
Empirical challenges to theory construction / Edward F. Kelly
Mystical experiences as windows on reality / Paul Marshall
II: Old and new worldviews that accommodate the targeted phenomena
The "transmission" model of mind and body: a brief history / Michael Grosso
A psychobiological perspective on "transmission" models / Edward F. Kelly and David E. Presti
A quantum-mechanical theory of the mind/brain connection / Henry P. Stapp
Mind-matter correlations in dual-aspect monism according to Pauli and Jung / Harold Atmanspacher and Wolfgang Fach
Hyperspatial models of matter and mind / Bernard Carr
Platonic siddhas: supernatural philosophers of Neoplatonism / Gregory Shaw
Pataänjali's Yoga såutras and the siddhis / Edward F. Kelly and Ian Whicher
Conscious body: mind and body in Abhinavaguta's tantra / Loriliai Biernacki
Why we are conscious of so little: a neo-Leibnizian approach / Paul Marshall
Continuity of mind: a Peircean vision / Adam Crabtree
Mind beyond body: transphysical process metaphysics / Eric M. Weiss
III. Putting the pieces together
Toward a worldview grounded in science and spirituality / Edward F. Kelly
The emergence of evolutionary panentheism / Michael Murphy.

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