Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind: What Mental Abnormalities Can Teach Us about Religions

ISBN-13: 9780190091149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 280 str.

Robert N. McCauley; George Graham

Recenzje

McCauley and Graham are leading figures in philosophy mind, philosophy of psychiatry, and the cognitive science of religion. Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind is a deeply respectful, humane, and productive exploration of familiar existential states of mind — dark nights of the soul, expansive love, anxiety, fear and trembling, depression, transcendence, and hope — that are sources for spiritual impulses. A central focus is the fact that sometimes spiritual virtuosity seems like what from another perspective we might think are illusions and delusions, mental illness. What are we to make of this? This is a book of great wisdom and grace in the tradition of Soren Kierkegaard and William James. A book that really makes one think.

O autorze

Robert N. McCauley is William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and the founding Director of Emory's Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. He is the author of Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not and Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion. He is also the co-author, with E. Thomas Lawson, of Rethinking Religion and Bringing Ritual to Mind. He has been elected president of both the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion, and he will serve as a Gifford Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in 2021. George Graham has held professorships in philosophy at Alabama-Birmingham, Georgia State, and Wake Forest, where he was A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy. He has published more than a dozen books, including The Disordered Mind and The Abraham Dilemma: A Divine Delusion. He is also co-author, with G. Lynn Stephens, of When Self-Consciousness Breaks. He has served as President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and received numerous awards for teaching and research awards from such institutions as The Rockefeller Foundation and The National Endowment for the Humanities.