The Terry Lectures Series: Absence of Mind : The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (Paperback)

from dcunning11235

This is a hard book to rate for me... On the one hand, it calls for a humility that is lacking in 'parascience' (or scientism, or perhaps New Atheism, or maybe simply positivism.) Great. Yes.On the other hand, Ms. Robinson clearly misunderstands or misrepresents some of the arguments and claims o...

from stillatim

Eh. A rambling, less coherent extension of the essay 'Darwinism' in her "Death of Adam," this one deals with what Robinson calls 'parascience,' essentially, the kind of populist journalism written by Dennet, Dawkins, Pinker and their ilk, with the 'problem' of altruism for their dogma, and with F...

from jefware

What is parascience (rational materialism) and what can it tell us about nature and what does it NOT tell us about us.

from jefware

What is parascience (rational materialism) and what can it tell us about nature and what does it NOT tell us about us.

from nmele

Time and again I found myself admiring Robinson's sharp logic and sharper words. This is an intelligent believer's response to the arguments against an inner self made by Dawkins, Wilson et alia. An excellent book all around, wherever one stands on the tension between religion and science, spirit...