Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
- ISBN-10
- 1442202068
- ISBN-13
- 9781442202061
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 800
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-10-31
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Authors
- Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree
Description
Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. The present volume demonstrates empirically that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms.
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