Irreducible Mind : Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, Paperback by Kel...

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated Item Length: 9 in Topic: Mind & Body, General, Logic, Research & Methodology ISBN: 9781442202061 Book Title: Irreducible Mind : Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century Author: Adam Crabtree, Emily Williams Kelly, Edward F. Kelly, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso Item Weight: 38.8 Oz width: 6 in Item Width: 6 in Format: Trade Paperback Publication Year: 2009 Number of Pages: 832 Pages Language: English height: 1.6 in Genre: Philosophy, Psychology Item Height: 1.6 in

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Irreducible Mind : Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, Paperback by Kel.... Irreducible Mind : Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, Paperback by Kelly, Edward F.; Kelly, Emily Williams; Crabtree, Adam; Gauld, Alan; Grosso, Michael, ISBN 1442202068, ISBN-13 9781442202061, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Practically every contemporary mainstream scientist presumes that all aspects of mind are generated by brain activity. We demonstrate the inadequacy of this picture by assembling evidence for a variety of empirical phenomena which it cannot explain. We further show that an alternative picture developed by F. W. H. Myers and William James successfully accommodates these phenomena, ratifies the common sense view of ourselves as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with contemporary physics and neuroscience. Irreducible Mind : Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, Paperback by Kelly, Edward F.; Kelly, Emily Williams; Crabtree, Adam; Gauld, Alan; Grosso, Michael, ISBN 1442202068, ISBN-13 9781442202061, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Practically every contemporary mainstream scientist presumes that all aspects of mind are generated by brain activity. We demonstrate the inadequacy of this picture by assembling evidence for a variety of empirical phenomena which it cannot explain. We further show that an alternative picture developed by F. W. H. Myers and William James successfully accommodates these phenomena, ratifies the common sense view of ourselves as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with contemporary physics and neuroscience.