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Title

Neuroscience and religion : brain, mind, self, and soul / edited by Volney P. Gay.

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gay, Volney P. (Volney Patrick), 1948-

Description

xi, 287 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"For religious persons, the notion of human being is tied inextricably to the notion of God (or the gods) and turns on this question: what is human being? How did we, with our almost infinite capacities for thought, change, and domination, come to be? Imbued with powers far beyond any other animal, humans are too faulty to be considered gods themselves. Yet, the idea of God (or the gods) appears in all distinctive human cultures: it names the other pole of human - it designates a being who realizes perfectly our imperfectly realized nature." "With the rise of new sciences come ancient anxieties about how we should define human being. In the nineteenth century, electricity and magnetism fascinated experts and captivated the lay public. In the twenty-first century, advances in neuroscience open up vast new possibilities of mimicking, and perhaps emulating human being. In this book twelve scholars and scientists ask what - if anything - distinguishes brain from mind, and mind from self and soul."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Neurosciences > Religious aspects
• Neuropsychology
• Medicine > Religious aspects
• Cognition
• Psychology and religion
• Neuropsychology
• Religion and Medicine
• Cognition
• Ego
• Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
• Religion and Psychology
• cognition
• Psychology and religion
• Medicine > Religious aspects
• Neurosciences > Religious aspects
• Religion
• Neurowissenschaften
• Neurowetenschappen
• Religieuze aspecten
• Religionspsychologie
• Religion
• Religiöse Erfahrung
• Neuropsychologie
• Neurobiologie
• Neurowissenschaften
• Leib-Seele-Problem

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Neuroscience and religion : brain, mind, self, and soul / Volney P. Gay -- A conversation on neuroscience and religion / Volney P. Gay -- Science, religion, and three shades of black boxes / Volney P. Gay -- Neuroscience, theory of mind, and the status of human-level truth / Edward Slingerland -- Downward causation and religion / Alicia Juarrero -- Rapid advances in human brain-machine interfacing : ethical and social implications / Michael Bess -- The neuroscience of religious experience: an introductory survey / Stephan Carlson -- Actions, reasons, neurons, and causes / Jeffrey D. Schall -- Human universals and human nature / Thomas A. Gregor -- Religion, science, and cognition : explorations in pluralistic integration / Gary Jensen -- The little divine machine : the soul/body problem revisited / John A. McCarthy -- Looking forward : the question of brain, mind, self, and soul / Volney P. Gay.

ISBN

• 9780739133910
• 0739133918
• 9780739133927
• 0739133926
• 9780739133934
• 0739133934

LCCN

2009010542

OCLC

• ocn316420924
• 316420924
• SCSB-9756845

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library