Download or read book The Mystery of Consciousness written by John R. Searle and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been one of the most fundamental problems of philosophy, and it is now, John Searle writes, "the most important problem in the biological sciences": What is consciousness? Is my inner awareness of myself something separate from my body? In what began as a series of essays in The New York Review of Books, John Searle evaluates the positions on consciousness of such well-known scientists and philosophers as Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, Roger Penrose, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, and Israel Rosenfield. He challenges claims that the mind works like a computer, and that brain functions can be reproduced by computer programs. With a sharp eye for confusion and contradiction, he points out which avenues of current research are most likely to come up with a biological examination of how conscious states are caused by the brain. Only when we understand how the brain works will we solve the mystery of consciousness, and only then will we begin to understand issues ranging from artificial intelligence to our very nature as human beings.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of the Old Testament written by H H Rowley and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of a classic exposition of the understanding of the Old Testament. Rowley brings the Old Testament back to the forefront of Scholarship and finds rich meaning in much of what has previously been buried. Increasingly men are turning their thoughts to the deeper message of the Old Testament, and finding richer meaning in the light of all work that has been done. The Old Testament need not to be buried beneath the weight of scholarship, but may rather stand on the foundation of scholarship, sustained by it and firmly upheld before men - from the Preface.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy written by S. Boulter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a defence of the philosophy of common sense in the spirit of Thomas Reid and G.E. Moore, drawing on the work of Aristotle, evolutionary biology and psychology, and historical studies on the origins of early modern philosophy. It defines and explores common sense beliefs, and defends them from challenges from prominent philosophers.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of Gnosticism 2 vols written by Bentley Layton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Bentley Layton -- The Domestication of Gnosis /Henry Chadwick -- Gnosis and Psychology /Gilles Quispel -- The Challenge of Gnostic Thought for Philosophy, Alchemy, and Literature /Carsten Colpe -- Lying Against Time: Gnosis, Poetry, Criticism /Harold Bloom -- In Search of Valentinus /G. C. Stead -- Religio-Historical Observations on Valentinianism /Ugo Bianchi -- Valentinian Gnosis and the Apocryphon of John /Gilles Quispel -- Valentinianism and the Gospel of Truth /R. McL. Wilson -- The Dog and the Mushrooms /Rowan A. Greer -- Self-Generating Principles in Second-Century Gnostic Systems /John Whittaker -- La Gnose Valentinienne et les Oracles Chaldaïques /Michel Tardieu -- Gnostic Writings as Witnesses for the Development of the Sayings Tradition /Helmut Koester -- Gnostic and Orthodox views of Christ's Passion: Paradigms for the Christian's Response to Persecution? /Elaine H. Pagels -- Gnosis and the Piety of Metaphor: The Gospel of Truth /Joel Fineman -- Gnosis und Christentum /Barbara Aland -- Concluding Discussion -- The Descent of the Soul in Middle Platonic and Gnostic Theory /John Dillon -- Gnosticism and the Making of the World in Plotinus /Dominic J. O'meara -- Gnostic Monism and the Gospel of Truth /William R. Schoedel -- Valentinisme italien et valentinisme oriental: leurs divergences à propos de la nature du corps de Jésus /Jean-Daniel Kaestli -- Conflicting Versions of Valentinianism? Irenaeus and the Excerpta ex Theodoto /James F. Mccue -- Les «Mythes» Valentiniens de la création et de l'eschatologie dans le langage d'Origène: le mot hypothesis /Marguerite Harl -- «Vraie» et «fausse» gnose d'après Clément d'Alexandrie /Andre Mehat -- Did Gnostics Make Pictures? /Paul Corby Finney -- Preliminary Material /Bentley Layton -- Philo on Seth /Robert Kraft -- Report on Seth Traditions in the Armenian Adam Books /Michael E. Stone -- The Figure of Seth in Gnostic Literature /Birger A. Pearson -- Discussion /Bentley Layton -- Some Related Traditions in the Apocalypse of Adam, the Books of Adam and eve, and 1 Enoch /George W. E. Nickelsburg -- Sethian and Zoroastrian Ages of the World /Carsten Colpe -- Discussion /Bentley Layton -- Stalking Those Elusive Sethians /Frederik Wisse -- Die “Sethianische” Gnosis--Eine häresiologische Fiktion? /Kurt Rudolph -- Discussion /Bentley Layton -- The Phenomenon and Significance of Gnostic Sethianism /Hans-Martin Schenke -- Triade uno Trinität in den Schriften von Nag Hammadi /Alexander Böhlig -- Discussion /Bentley Layton -- Sethians and Johannine Thought /James M. Robinson -- Discussion /Bentley Layton -- Concluding Discussion /Bentley Layton -- The Arrogant Archon and the Lewd Sophia /Nils A. Dahl -- Aspects of the Jewish-Gnostic Controversy /Ithamar Gruenwald -- Literary Criticism of the Cologne Mani Codex /Albert Henrichs -- From Baptism to the Gnosis of Manichaeism /Ludwig Koenen -- Gnostic Instructions on the Organization of the Congregation /Klaus Koschorke -- The Naassene Psalm in Hippolytus (Haer. 5. 10.2) /M. Marcovich -- Le cadre scolaire des traités de l'Ame et le Deuxième Traité du Grand Seth (CG VII, 2) /Louis Painchaud.
Download or read book Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides written by Kenneth Hart Green and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides, Kenneth Hart Green explores the critical role played by Maimonides in shaping Leo Strauss’s thought. In uncovering the esoteric tradition employed in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed, Strauss made the radical realization that other ancient and medieval philosophers might be concealing their true thoughts through literary artifice. Maimonides and al-Farabi, he saw, allowed their message to be altered by dogmatic considerations only to the extent required by moral and political imperatives and were in fact avid advocates for enlightenment. Strauss also revealed Maimonides’s potential relevance to contemporary concerns, especially his paradoxical conviction that one must confront the conflict between reason and revelation rather than resolve it. An invaluable companion to Green’s comprehensive collection of Strauss’s writings on Maimonides, this volume shows how Strauss confronted the commonly accepted approaches to the medieval philosopher, resulting in both a new understanding of Maimonides and a new depth and direction for his own thought. It will be welcomed by anyone engaged with the work of either philosopher.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of the Wild written by Peter H. Kahn (Jr.) and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling case for connecting with the wild, for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature--a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity of connecting with wild nature--untamed, unmanaged, not encompassed, self-organizing, and unencumbered and unmediated by technological artifice. We can love the wild. We can fear it. We are strengthened and nurtured by it. As a species, we came of age in a natural world far wilder than today's, and much of the need for wildness still exists within us, body and mind. The Rediscovery of the Wild considers ways to engage with the wild, protect it, and recover it--for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species. The contributors offer a range of perspectives on the wild, discussing such topics as the evolutionary underpinnings of our need for the wild; the wild within, including the primal passions of sexuality and aggression; birding as a portal to wildness; children's fascination with wild animals; wildness and psychological healing; the shifting baseline of what we consider wild; and the true work of conservation.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of Jewish Christianity written by F. Stanley Jones and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This focused collection of essays by international scholars first uncovers the roots of the study of ancient Jewish Christianity in the Enlightenment in early eighteenth-century England, then explores why and how this rediscovery of Jewish Christianity set off the entire modern historical debate over Christian origins. Finally, it examines in detail how this critical impulse made its way to Germany, eventually to flourish in the nineteenth century under F. C. Baur and the Tübingen School. Included is a facsimile reproduction of John Toland’s seminal Nazarenus (1718), which launched the modern study of Jewish Christianity. The contributors are F. Stanley Jones, David Lincicum, Pierre Lurbe, Matt Jackson-McCabe, and Matti Myllykoski.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of Gnosticism written by Bentley Layton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1981 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rediscovery of America written by Ned Blackhawk and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that • European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; • Native nations helped shape England’s crisis of empire; • the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; • California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; • the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; • twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk’s retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of Antiquity written by Jane Fejfer and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Archaeologists, art historians and artists consider the Role of the Artist' in the rediscovery of the past.
Download or read book Seeing Things as They are written by John R. Searle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the objective field is either perceived or can be perceived. Nothing in the subjective field is perceived nor can be perceived precisely because the events in the subjective field consist of the perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in the objective field. Searle begins by criticizing the classical theories of perception and identifies a single fallacy, what he calls the Bad Argument, as the source of nearly all of the confusions in the history of the philosophy of perception. He next justifies the claim that perceptual experiences have presentational intentionality and shows how this justifies the direct realism of his account. In the central theoretical chapters, he shows how it is possible that the raw phenomenology must necessarily determine certain form of intentionality. Searle introduces, in detail, the distinction between different levels of perception from the basic level to the higher levels and shows the internal relation between the features of the experience and the states of affairs presented by the experience. The account applies not just to language possessing human beings but to infants and conscious animals. He also discusses how the account relates to certain traditional puzzles about spectrum inversion, color and size constancy and the brain-in-the-vat thought experiments. In the final chapters he explains and refutes Disjunctivist theories of perception, explains the role of unconscious perception, and concludes by discussing traditional problems of perception such as skepticism.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of Light written by Milena Braga and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetic telling of a journey from heartbreak into redemption.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of the Mind written by John R. Searle and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992-07-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of consciousness that results in so much barrenness and sterility in psychology, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science: there can be no study of mind that leaves out consciousness. What is going on in the brain is neurophysiological processes and consciousness and nothing more—no rule following, no mental information processing or mental models, no language of thought, and no universal grammar. Mental events are themselves features of the brain, "like liquidity is a feature of water." Beginning with a spirited discussion of what's wrong with the philosophy of mind, Searle characterizes and refutes the philosophical tradition of materialism. But he does not embrace dualism. All these "isms" are mistaken, he insists. Once you start counting types of substance you are on the wrong track, whether you stop at one or two. In four chapters that constitute the heart of his argument, Searle elaborates a theory of consciousness and its relation to our overall scientific world view and to unconscious mental phenomena. He concludes with a criticism of cognitive science and a proposal for an approach to studying the mind that emphasizes the centrality of consciousness to any account of mental functioning. In his characteristically direct style, punctuated with persuasive examples, Searle identifies the very terminology of the field as the main source of truth. He observes that it is a mistake to suppose that the ontology of the mental is objective and to suppose that the methodology of a science of the mind must concern itself only with objectively observable behavior; that it is also a mistake to suppose that we know of the existence of mental phenomena in others only by observing their behavior; that behavior or causal relations to behavior are not essential to the existence of mental phenomena; and that it is inconsistent with what we know about the universe and our place in it to suppose that everything is knowable by us.
Download or read book On the Contrary written by Paul M. Churchland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We mean to give our colleagues--or rather, their various philosophical positions--as rough a time as we can responsibly manage."--from the preface Paul and Patricia Churchland are towering figures in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness. This collection was prepared in the belief that the most useful and revealing of anyone's writings are often those much shorter essays penned in conflict with or criticism of one's professional colleagues. The essays present the Churchlands' critical responses to a variety of philosophical positions advanced by some two dozen philosophical theorists, almost all of whom are still living. The book is divided into three parts: part I, Folk Psychology and Eliminative Materialism; part II, Meaning, Qualia, and Emotion: The Several Dimensions of Consciousness; and part III, the Philosophy of Science. V. S. Ramachandran and Rick Grush are coauthors on two of the essays.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of America written by Stuart Andrews and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rediscovery of America features some twenty representatives of England, France and America, whose careers in some sense straddled the Atlantic in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. While not establishing causal links between the American and French Revolutions, the collective weight of these individual responses to the new America supports the idea of an 'Atlantic Revolution'. This study of the writings and transatlantic experiences of the revolutionary generation shows the power of American images in shaping political rhetoric, if not political reality.
Download or read book The Rediscovery of the Human written by Viktor E Frankl and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning sold over 10 million copies and was translated into over 30 languages and was deemed by a survey of the Library of Congress one of “the ten most influential books in America”. This volume introduces and presents translations of a number of important but less well-known writings by Viktor Frankl, translated from the original German, in which he forthrightly relates psychology to religious concepts. These cast a strong, new light on the generally received understanding of Frankl’s contribution to psychology – “logotherapy” – and its relationship to the soul and universal ethics.
Download or read book The Discovery of San Francisco Bay written by George Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
