Science, Religion, and the Human Experience

uneasy alliances 307 Pepper, O. H. “A Note on the Placebo.”American Journal of Pharmacy117 (1945): 409– 412. Petrovic, Predag, E ...

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15 The Intersubjective Worlds of Science and Religion B. Alan Wallace In this paper I shall present a radical alternative to met ...

310 mind The Trajectory of Metaphysical Realism Since the Scientific Revolution Since the time of Copernicus, natural philosophe ...

the intersubjective worlds of science and religion 311 physical phenomena could be devised. This same progression—from precise, ...

312 mind nature as a whole. And mental phenomena, which can be directly detected only by introspective observation, have come to ...

the intersubjective worlds of science and religion 313 observed all the physical phenomena in the universe and devised a complet ...

314 mind first hypothesis, which is the only one compatible with the principles of sci- entific materialism. Thus, instead of le ...

the intersubjective worlds of science and religion 315 you had to figure out where it came from, you could speculate that it spo ...

316 mind What, then, is the nature of this “real, external, material world,” which constrains perception and which physics osten ...

the intersubjective worlds of science and religion 317 of all measurements. Werner Heisenberg comments in this regard, “What we ...

318 mind hand, what are the grounds for concluding that the world that exists indepen- dently of the human mind consists solely ...

the intersubjective worlds of science and religion 319 ulty that sees them, and perceived sounds exist relative to the auditory ...

320 mind contemplative theory can never be adequately translated into the language of common, everyday experiences and ideas. Th ...

the intersubjective worlds of science and religion 321 emergence of life in the universe. By probing the nature of organic pheno ...

322 mind refutation of a mathematical proof is a private, first-person event. The external manifestation of a sophisticated math ...

the intersubjective worlds of science and religion 323 Third are truth-claims based on firsthand experience, be it scientific or ...

324 mind practices, we may first ask whether they are internally consistent. Then, what subjective and objective phenomena do th ...

the intersubjective worlds of science and religion 325 Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold,Exploring the World of Lucid Dream- ...

326 mind bibliography Augustine.The Free Choice of the Will.Translated by Francis E. Tourscher. Philadel- phia: The Peter Reilly ...