Measuring The Immeasurable Mind
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Measuring The Immeasurable Mind
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Author : Matthew Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Measuring The Immeasurable Mind written by Matthew Owen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Philosophy categories.
In "Measuring the immeasurable mind : where contemporary neuroscience meets the Aristotelian tradition", Matthew Owen argues that despite its nonphysical character, it is possible to empirically detect and measure consciousness. Toward the end of the previous century, the neuroscience of consciousness set its roots and sprouted within a materialist milieu that reduced the mind to matter. Several decades later, dualism is being dusted off and reconsidered. Although some may see this revival as a threat to consciousness science aimed at measuring the conscious mind, Owen argues that measuring consciousness, along with the medical benefits of such measurements, is not ruled out by consciousness being nonphysical. Owen proposes the Mind-Body Powers model of neural correlates of consciousness, which is informed by Aristotelian causation and a substance dualist view of human nature inspired by Thomas Aquinas, who often followed Aristotle. In addition to explaining why there are neural correlates of consciousness, the model provides a philosophical foundation for empirically discerning and quantifying consciousness. En route to presenting and applying the Mind-Body Powers model to neurobiology, Owen rebuts longstanding objections to dualism related to the mind-body problem. With scholarly precision and readable clarity, Owen applies an oft forgotten yet richly developed historical vantage point to contemporary cognitive neuroscience.
Taking Persons Seriously
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Author : Mihretu P. Guta
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2024-06-06
Taking Persons Seriously written by Mihretu P. Guta and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-06 with Philosophy categories.
This volume attempts to show why ontology matters for a proper grasp of issues in bioethics. Contemporary discussions on bioethics often focus on seeking solutions for a wide range of issues that revolve around persons. The issues in question are multi-layered, involving such diverse aspects as the metaphysical/ontological, personal, medical, moral, legal, cultural, social, political, religious, and environmental. In navigating through such a complex web of issues, it has been said that the central problems philosophers and bioethicists face are ethical in nature. In this regard, biomedical sciences and technological breakthroughs take a leading role in terms of shaping the sorts of questions that give rise to ethical problems. For example, is it ethical to keep terminally ill patients alive on dialysis machines or artificial ventilators? Is it ethical to take someone's vital organs upon death and transplant them into another person's body without any prior consent from the deceased person? Reproductive techniques also raise complicated ethical issues involving in vitro fertilization, contraceptives, prenatal testing, abortions, and genetic enhancements. Moreover, biomedical issues raise ethical problems regarding research on human subjects, stem cell research, and enhancement biotechnology. The beginning and end of life issues bring up their own complicated ethical conundrums involving, among other things, terminating life support and euthanasia. This book approaches such complex bioethical questions by engaging in ground-level debates about the ontology of persons. This is a nonnegotiable first step in taking steps forward in seeking a plausible solution(s) for the complex ethical problems in bioethics.
The Substance Of Consciousness
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Author : Brandon Rickabaugh
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2023-10-31
The Substance Of Consciousness written by Brandon Rickabaugh and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Philosophy categories.
A singularly powerful and rigorous argument in favor of modern substance dualism In The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism, two distinguished philosophers deliver a unique and powerful defense of contemporary substance dualism, which makes the claim that the human person is an embodied fundamental, immaterial, and unifying substance. Multidisciplinary in scope, the book explores areas of philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience, and the sociology of mind-body beliefs. The authors present the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and rigorous non-edited work on substance dualism in the field, as well as a detailed history of how property and substance dualism have been presented and evaluated over the last 150 years. Alongside developing new and updated positive arguments for substance dualism, they also discuss key metaphysical notions and distinctions that inform the examination of substance dualism and its alternatives. Readers will also find: A thorough examination of the recent shift away from standard physicalism and the renaissance of substance dualism Comprehensive explorations of the likely future of substance dualism in the twenty-first century, including an exhaustive list of proposed research projects for substance dualists Practical discussion of new and rigorous critiques of significant physicality alternatives, including emergentism and panpsychism. Extensive treatments of philosophy of mind debates about the roles played by staunch/faint-hearted naturalism and theism in establishing or presuming methodology, epistemic priorities, and prior metaphysical commitments Perfect for professional philosophers, The Substance of Consciousness will also earn a place in the libraries of consciousness researchers, philosophical theologians, and religious studies scholars.
J Krishnamurti
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Author : Pupul Jayakar
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2000-10-14
J Krishnamurti written by Pupul Jayakar and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A classic biography of one of the greatest spiritual teachers of our times In 1909, when he was just fourteen, Krishnamurti was proclaimed the world teacher in whom Maitreya, the Bodhisattva of compassion, would manifest. The proclamation was made by Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society, a movement that combined Western occult philosophy with Buddhist and Hindu teachings. Besant trained Krishnamurti in his role as the chosen one but twenty years later he chose to disband the order he was head of and set out alone on his endless journey— As a contemporary of Krishnamurti and one of his closest associates. Pupul Jayakar offers an insider's view of the fascinating life and thought of an extraordinary individual.
The Meditative Mind
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Author : J. Krishnamurti
language : en
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Release Date : 2024-09-18
The Meditative Mind written by J. Krishnamurti and has been published by Jaico Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-18 with Religion categories.
THE TRUE INQUIRY INTO WHAT MEDITATION MEANS. The Meditative Mind by J. Krishnamurti delves deep into the essence of meditation, challenging every preconceived notion and traditional practice. In his original, uncompromising voice, Krishnamurti shatters the illusions surrounding meditation, revealing its true nature. Krishnamurti asserts that meditation is not a system to befollowed, nor a method to be practiced for a desired outcome. Such mechanical repetition only conditions the mind further, making it impossible to achieve genuine meditative awareness. How can a mechanical mind which has been trained and twisted, tortured to comply to the pattern of what it calls meditation, hoping to achieve a reward at the end be free to observe, to learn? he asks. According to Krishnamurti, "Meditation is renewal, it is an intense passive awareness, the burning away of the desire to continue, to become, only when the mind ceases is there creation.” This invaluable collection of his talks on meditation is a profound invitation to break free from conventional practices and systems, to explore the true inquiry into what meditation means.
Hylomorphism
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Author : William M. R. Simpson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-07-20
Hylomorphism written by William M. R. Simpson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-20 with Philosophy categories.
This Element adapts Aristotle's ancient doctrine of hylomorphism for contemporary philosophy of biology to explain the unity of living organisms.
Personal Ontology
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Author : Andrew Brenner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-14
Personal Ontology written by Andrew Brenner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-14 with Philosophy categories.
What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? This book discusses the main competing accounts of personal ontology that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort, and includes a detailed discussion of the metaphysics of several afterlife scenarios.
Journal Of Biblical And Theological Studies Issue 8 1
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Author : Daniel S. Diffey
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2024-12-04
Journal Of Biblical And Theological Studies Issue 8 1 written by Daniel S. Diffey and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-04 with Religion categories.
The Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies (JBTS) is an academic journal focused on the fields of Bible and Theology from an inter-denominational point of view. The journal is comprised of an editorial board of scholars that represent several academic institutions throughout the world. JBTS is concerned with presenting high-level original scholarship in an approachable way.
Sustainability Indicators
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Author : Simon Bell
language : en
Publisher: Earthscan
Release Date : 2008
Sustainability Indicators written by Simon Bell and has been published by Earthscan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.