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  • TEN WAYS TO WEAVE THE WORLD: MATTER, MIND, AND GOD, VOLUME 2
    ROSS THOMPSON
    In this sequel to Outgrowing Materialism, Thompson explores five conceptual "Worlds" that preceded the dualist v. materialist divide and shows why recent philosophy--often little-known outside of academic circles--is now giving these old ideas a new relevance. In an approachable way, but without avoiding complexity, Embodying Mind leads the reader through the Worlds of panpsych...

    $639.00

  • TEN WAYS TO WEAVE THE WORLD: MATTER, MIND, AND GOD, VOLUME 1
    ROSS THOMPSON
    The idea of an ideological war between science and religion, Thompson argues, is founded on a mistake. But this does not mean that there is nothing at stake. For behind the ill-conceived conflict lie complex issues about the nature of mind, consciousness, experience, subjectivity, quality, value, and the like, all of which need to be disentangled and assessed in their own right...

    $515.00

  • PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE
    R. PAUL THOMPSON / ROSS UPSHUR
    What kind of knowledge is medical knowledge? Can medicine be explained scientifically? Is disease a scientific concept, or do explanations of disease depend on values? What is "evidence-based" medicine? Are advances in neuroscience bringing us closer to a scientific understanding of the mind? The nature of medicine raises fundamental questions about explanation, causation, know...

    $999.00

  • THE INTERFAITH IMPERATIVE
    ROSS THOMPSON
    Globally we seem torn between local, exclusive forms of religion, which can cause immense spiritual and physical damage to people, and a bland secularism that confines the religions to safe havens, each offering its own private options for "spirituality" within a secularized global politic. In this context the religions tolerate one another but cannot engage in mutually challen...

    $603.00