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    Category: Science Philosophy of Science

    Perception - Neural and Mental Representations

    Perception - Neural and Mental Representations

    Author: Amit Atad
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    A succinct scientific and philosophical discussion of the brain-mind connection starting from the premise that it concerns 'the representation of information, where representation relates to…… Read More »
    Consciousness - A Very Short Introduction

    Consciousness - A Very Short Introduction

    Author: Susan Blackmore
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    A volume in the OUP series 'Very Short Introductions' which in this case is an abridged version of the author's 2003 textbook already reviewed. Most…… Read More »
    Why We Exist - Inferences from Science for an Explanation of Human Purpose

    Why We Exist - Inferences from Science for an Explanation of Human Purpose

    Author: Eugene Bell-Gam
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This independent and well-researched book attempts an answer to the question implicit in its title. Three chapters are devoted to a discussion of religious and…… Read More »
    The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - New Edition

    The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - New Edition

    Author: Ted Honderich
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This companion first came out 10 years ago, and has now been updated with an additional 300 entries. It contains all that one might expect…… Read More »
    THE ROAD TO REALITY

    THE ROAD TO REALITY

    Author: Sir Roger Penrose
    Reviewer: Chris Clarke
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    There is a perpetual problem with popularising modern physics: what do you do with the maths? Received wisdom is that you should miss it all…… Read More »
    Earthdance

    Earthdance

    Author: Elisabet Sahtouris
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Elisabet Sahtouris (PhD. Biology) should be well-known to many SMN members. At the recent Scientists and Mystics conference (Winchester, April 2005) she impressed the audience…… Read More »
    THE MARCH OF UNREASON

    THE MARCH OF UNREASON

    Author: Dick Taverne
    Reviewer: Max Payne
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Dick Taverne is a man of courageous principle. He abandoned a high flying political career as a Labour minister for the political wilderness with the…… Read More »
    COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SURVIVE

    COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SURVIVE

    Author: Jared Diamond
    Reviewer: Crispin Tickell
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Since the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago (a mere blink of geological time), humans have come together in societies of…… Read More »
    Islam and Science

    Islam and Science

    Author: Muzaffar Iqbal
    Reviewer: John Maxwell Kerr
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Historians of science are well aware of the dazzling outpouring of work in many fields during the centuries-long Golden Age of Islamic science. Iqbal presents…… Read More »
    DOOMSDAY JUST AHEAD

    DOOMSDAY JUST AHEAD

    Author: Ian Niall Rankin
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This is an intriguing but challenging book to review as it draws on a number of disciplines - geology, astronomy, physics, archaeology and palaentology -…… Read More »
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