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The Priority of Mind

Keith Ward

Is the mind just a by-product of the brain? Or is mind the fundamental reality, which creates matter? This book is a defense of mind as prior to matter. It is a philosophical work, written in an accessible style, which explains idealism as the teaching of most classical philosophers, and as most consistent with modern science.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • Publish Date: Nov 12nd, 2021
  • Pages: 88
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.38in - 0.58lb
  • EAN: 9781666792201
  • Categories: Mind & BodyReligiousReligion & Science

About the Author

Ward, Keith: - Keith Ward is the Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Oxford University, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has taught philosophy at a number of British and American universities.

Praise for this book

"Let us be clear that for each of us the primary reality is consciousness--everything else is derivative."
--John Eccles, Neurophysiologist

"The evolutionary assumption implies that consciousness is efficacious--that it is not an epiphenomenon."
--Gerald Edelman, Neurobiologist

"Consciousness is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known."
--Roger Penrose, Oxford Mathematician

"It [an event] has not really happened . . . until it is an observed phenomenon."
--John Wheeler, Mathematical Physicist

"The content of consciousness is an ultimate reality."
--Eugene Wigner, Nobel Laureate

"All real things are contents of consciousness."
--John von Neumann, Quantum Physicist

"I regard consciousness as fundamental--matter is derivative from consciousness."
--Max Planck, Physicist