Absence of mind: The dispelling of inwardness from the modern myth of the self. (The Terry Lectures). [HARDCOVER]

158 sayfa. 14x21 cm
ROBINSON, MARILYNNE
Absence of mind: The dispelling of inwardness from the modern myth of the self. (The Terry Lectures). [HARDCOVER].
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2010.
xviii, 158 s. 21x14 cm.
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In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model o

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