Second of a three-volume series of the "Journal of Consciousness Studies," which asks if it is possible to take a natural science approach to art and uncover general laws of aesthetic experience, or is that taking reductionism too far?
What is art? What is beauty? How do they relate? Where does consciousness come in? What about truth? And can science help us with issues of this kind? Because such questions go to the very heart of current conflicts about Western value systems, they are unlikely to receive definitive answers. But they are still very much worth exploring - which is...
Second of a three-volume series of the "Journal of Consciousness Studies," which asks if it is possible to take a natural science approach to art a...
First of a three-volume series of the "Journal of Consciousness Studies," which asks if it is possible to take a natural science approach to art and uncover general laws of aesthetic experience, or is that taking reductionism too far?
First of a three-volume series of the "Journal of Consciousness Studies," which asks if it is possible to take a natural science approach to art an...
Third of a three-volume series of the "Journal of Consciousness Studies," which asks if it is possible to take a natural science approach to art and uncover general laws of aesthetic experience, or is that taking reductionism too far? The contributors to this volume include Semir Zeki, Nicholas Humphrey, VS Ramachandran & Erich Harth.
Third of a three-volume series of the "Journal of Consciousness Studies," which asks if it is possible to take a natural science approach to art an...
'Plain' persons tend to accept that free will exists and is inconsistent with determinism, but this commonsense position is widely debunked by professional philosophers and cognitive scientists. In this special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies David Hodgson defends a simple, robust account of the plain person's position on free will, and intends it to support equally robust views of personal responsibility for conduct. In a lively debate his ideas are discussed and challenged by ten philosophers and scientists of varying opinions, including Robert Kane, Henry Stapp, and...
'Plain' persons tend to accept that free will exists and is inconsistent with determinism, but this commonsense position is widely debunked by prof...
Rupert Sheldrake outraged the scientific establishment in the early 1980s with his hypothesis of morphic resonance: his book A New Science of Life was denounced by the journal Nature as 'the best candidate for burning there has been for many years'. With his academic career torpedoed, Sheldrake has become the champion of 'the people's science'. Books such as Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and The Sense of Being Stared At have won him popular acclaim and academic opprobrium in equal measure. In this special issue of the Journal of...
Rupert Sheldrake outraged the scientific establishment in the early 1980s with his hypothesis of morphic resonance: his book A New Science of L...