Coming to Mind: The Soul and Its Body

By: Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramencio

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Synopsis: How should we speak of bodies and souls? In Coming to Mind, Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brain’s rival but as its partner. What acts, they argue, is what is real. The soul is not an ethereal wisp but a lively subject, emergent from the body but inadequately described in its terms. Rooted in some of the richest philosophical and intellectual traditions of Western and Eastern philosophy, psychology, literature, and the arts and the latest findings of cognitive psychology and brain science—Coming to Mind is a subtle manifesto of a new humanism and an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the human person. Drawing on new and classical understandings of perception, consciousness, memory, agency, and creativity, Goodman and Caramenico frame a convincing argument for a dynamic and integrated self capable of language, thought, discovery, caring, and love.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 304 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780226061238
Related ISBNs:: 9780226061061
Publisher:: The University of Chicago Press
Date of Addition:: 11/15/24
Copyrighted By:: The University of Chicago Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Religion and Spirituality, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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