Reality’s Fugue : : Reconciling Worldviews in Philosophy, Religion, and Science / / F. Samuel Brainard.
Science, religion, philosophy: these three categories of thought have organized humankind’s search for meaning from time immemorial. Reality’s Fugue presents a compelling case that these ways of understanding, often seen as competing, are part of a larger puzzle that cannot be rendered by one accoun...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE: WHAT IS REAL?
- Chapter One: The Predicament
- Chapter Two: Two Views of Reality
- PART TWO: THREE THEMES
- Chapter Three: Universals and Particulars
- Chapter Four: Hinduism and the Third-Person View
- Chapter Five: Awareness and Its Objects
- Chapter Six: Buddhism and the First-Person View
- Chapter Seven: The Dualism of Everyday Reality
- Chapter Eight: Western Theism and the Dualist View
- PART THREE: REALITY AS FUGUE
- Introduction to Part Three
- Chapter Nine: Awareness’s Two Roles
- Chapter Ten: Artifacts of Awareness
- Chapter Eleven: Physical Reality
- Chapter Twelve: Religions Revisited
- Postscripts
- Postscript One: Scale as a Dimension of Reality
- Postscript Two: A Definition for Truth
- Acknowledgments
- Terms Defined in This Book
- Glossary of Hindu and Buddhist Terms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index