Scientific Naturalism, the Mind-Body Relation, and Religious Experience
Although attempts to explain religious experience in terms of brain processes usually presuppose the identification of scientific naturalism with the sensationist, atheistic, materialist version of naturalism (naturalismsam), this version is inadequate for science, and human experience more generall...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2002
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Zygon
Année: 2002, Volume: 37, Numéro: 2, Pages: 361-380 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Atheism
B Panentheism B Panexperientialism B Alfred North Whitehead B Materialism B sensationism B Hilary Putnam B Religious Experience B Neuroscience B prehension B Scientific naturalism B Willard Quine B naturalistic theism B Interactionism |
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| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | Although attempts to explain religious experience in terms of brain processes usually presuppose the identification of scientific naturalism with the sensationist, atheistic, materialist version of naturalism (naturalismsam), this version is inadequate for science, and human experience more generally, for numerous reasons. An alternative version, based on panexperientialism, panentheism, and a prehensive doctrine of perception (naturalismppp), not only avoids those problems but also allows for religious experience understood as the soul's direct experience of a Holy Reality. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00433 |
