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4 See David J. Chalmers, “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness,” in 5 René Descartes, Explaining Consciousness – DescartesMA: MIT Press, 1997), pp. 9–32., vol. 2, trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch Meditations on First Philosophy‘The Hard Problem,’ ed. Jonathan Shear (Cambridge, , in The Philosophical Writings of
6 Plato, “Phaedo,” in 7 David J. Chalmers, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), p. 18.Penguin, 1959).Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 47, 234–5. Chalmers cites J. Levine’s The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental TheoryThe Last Days of Socrates, trans. Hugh Tredennick (New York: (Oxford:
10 See David E. Klemm, “Religious Naturalism or Theological Humanism?” 8 For problems with both materialism and dualism, see Searle, 9 Searle, 64 (1983): 354–61.“Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap,” Mind, pp. 79–80. Pacifi c Philosophical QuarterlyMind, pp. 8–27.^
11 One sees these trends in terms of interest in architecture, deconstructionism Zygon: Journal of Religion and Sciencein literary theory, visual and New Media art, etc. – for example, see Mark C. Taylor, Press, 1992) – but also the fascination with the work of theologians like Hans Disfi guring: Art, Architecture, Religion 42, no. 2 ( June 2007): 357–68. (Chicago: University of Chicago
12 “Religion and the Arts” comprises an interdisciplinary domain of reflUrs von Balthasar. Our purpose is not to engage these theological movements, but, rather, to go after the root issue, namely, consciousness.in the academy and the wider public, fueled by David Jasper, Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004); George Steiner, The Sacred Desert: ection both
13 For a detailed examination of modeling in science and its application to Testing Theological Models,” Religion, Art, and Visual Culturetheo Real logy, see David E. Klemm and William H. Klink, “Constructing andPresences (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989); S. Brent Plate (ed.), (New York: Palgrave, 2002), and others.Zygon: A Journal for Religion and Science 38, no. 3
15 Max Black, 14 Thomas Kuhn, pp. 219–43; Mary B. Hesse, (September, 2003): 495–528.Chicago Press, 1970), pp. 174–91.Models and MetaphorsThe Structure of Scientifi c RevolutionsModels and Analogies in Science (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1962), (Chicago: University of (Notre Dame, IN:
16 Edmund Husserl, Notre Dame University Press, 1966), pp. 7–56; Paul Ricoeur, Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in LanguageRobert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello, SJ (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977), pp. 239–56.Ideas: General Introduction to Pure PhenomenologyThe Rule of , trans. , trans.
17 Consider Caspar David Friedrich’s painting, W. R. Boyce Gibson (New York: Humanities, 1976), p. 113.Moon (1820s), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.Man and Woman Contemplating the

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