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The Taboo of Subjectivity: Towards a New Science of Consciousness

The Taboo of Subjectivity: Towards a New Science of Consciousness

Wallace, B. Alan

Paperback

PhilosophyHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0195173104
ISBN13: 9780195173109
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 12 2004
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. Alan Wallace draws careful distinctions between four elements of the scientific tradition: science itself, scientific realism, scientific materialism, and scientism. Arguing that the metaphysical doctrine of scientific materialism has taken on the role of ersatz-religion for its adherents, he traces its development from its Greek and Judeo-Christian origins, focusing on the interrelation between the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. He looks at scientists' long term resistance to the firsthand study of consciousness and details the ways in which subjectivity has been deemed taboo within the scientific community. In conclusion, Wallace draws on William James's idea for a science of religion that would study the nature of religious and, in particular, contemplative experience.

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