Irreducible mind : toward a psychology for the 21st century

by Edward F. Kelly

Paperback, 2010

Publication

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. Edward F. Kelly and Emily Williams Kelly, with contributions from Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso and Bruce Greyson. OCLC Number: 680469452. xxxi, 800 pages ; 23 cm.

Call number

BC / Kelly

Barcode

BK-07249

ISBN

9781442202061

Physical description

xxxi, 800 p.; 23 cm

Description

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.

Language

Original language

English

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