Taboo of Subjectivity Toward a New Science of Consciousness

Name: Taboo of Subjectivity Toward a New Science of Consciousness
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ISBN: 9780195173109

ISBN-10: 0195173104

ISBN-13: 9780195173109

Edition: N/A

Authors: B. Alan Wallace

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This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. Alan Wallace draws careful distinctions between four elements of the scientific tradition: science itself, scientific realism, scientific materialism, and scientism. Arguing that the metaphysical doctrine of scientific materialism has taken on the role of ersatz-religion for its adherents, he traces its development from its Greek and Judeo-Christian origins, focusing on the interrelation between the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. He looks at scientists' long term resistance to the firsthand study of consciousness and…

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List price: $49.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 323
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.792

B. Alan Wallace teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara.



Introduction: The No Man's Land of Consciousness



The Ideology of Scientific Materialism



Four Dimensions of the Scientific Tradition



Theological Impulses in the Scientific Revolution



Toward a Noetic Revolution



An Empirical Alternative



Observing the Mind



Exploring the Mind



The Resistance



The Mind in Scientific Materialism



Confusing Scientific Materialism with Science



Scientific Materialism: The Ideology of Modernity


Conclusion: No Boundaries


Notes


Bibliography


Index