The Soul Fallacy: What Science Shows We Gain from Letting Go of Our Soul Beliefs - Brossura

Musolino, Julien

 
9781616149628: The Soul Fallacy: What Science Shows We Gain from Letting Go of Our Soul Beliefs
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ISBN 10: 1616149620 ISBN 13: 9781616149628
Casa editrice: G38-Prometheus, 2015

Sinossi

Most Americans believe they possess an immaterial soul that will survive the death of the body. In sharp contrast, the current scientific consensus rejects the traditional soul, although this conclusion is rarely discussed publicly. In this book, a cognitive scientist breaks the taboo and explains why modern science leads to this controversial conclusion. In doing so, the book reveals the truly astonishing scope and power of scientific inquiry, drawing on ideas from biology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the physical sciences.

Much more than chronicling the demise of the traditional soul, the book explores where soul beliefs come from, why they are so widespread culturally and historically, how cognitive science offers a naturalistic alternative to religious conceptions of mind, and how postulating the existence of a soul amounts to making a scientific claim.

Although the new scientific view of personhood departs radically from traditional religious conceptions, the author shows that a coherent, meaningful, and sensitive appreciation of what it means to be human remains intact. He argues that we do not lose anything by letting go of our soul beliefs and that we even have something to gain.

Throughout, the book takes a passionate stand for science and reason. It also offers a timely rejoinder to recent claims that science supports the existence of the soul and the afterlife.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Julien Musolino is a Franco-American cognitive scientist and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University where he directs the Psycholinguistics Laboratory and holds a dual appointment in the Department of Psychology and the internationally renowned Center for Cognitive Science. He is the author of over 30 scientific articles and his research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

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Editore
G38-Prometheus
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1616149620
ISBN 13 
9781616149628
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
290
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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