The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness
by 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 show more Judeo-Christian origins, focusing on the interrelation between the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revol show lessTags
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Like John Leslie's _Infinite Minds_, this book is deceitfully titled and utterly contaminated by religion, complete with carpings about "scientism." Not worth a second glance, let alone an actual reading.
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B. Alan Wallace teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 291.175 — Religion Other religions [Formerly: General Religious Topics] [formerly: Religious mythology, general classes of religion, interreligious relations and attitudes, social theology. Relocated to 201] Theologies Religions in Relation to Specific Disciplines
- LCC
- BL240.2 .W27 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Natural theology Religion and science
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