Is the mind just a by-product of the brain? Or is mind the fundamental reality, which creates matter? In The Priority of Mind, Keith Ward mounts a definitive defence of mind as prior to matter. In an accessible style, he unpacks the sources and abilities of the mind, situates it in the wider world, or cosmos, and proposes a relation between mind and virtue, and the nature of mind after death. Along the way, he explores the different philosophical approaches to the mind-matter question taken by thinkers over time, settling on idealism as the teaching of most classical philosophers, and as most consistent with modern science. Lay readers and scholars alike will relish Ward's clear, methodical exposition, and his counterarguments against the materialist narrative that dominates much of popular philosophical thinking today.
| ISBN: | 9780227178973 |
| Publication date: | 26th October 2023 |
| Author: | Keith Ward |
| Publisher: | James Clarke an imprint of James Clarke & Co Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 90 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Ethics and moral philosophy Philosophy of religion |
Is the mind just a by-product of the brain? Or is mind the fundamental reality, which creates matter? In The Priority of Mind, Keith Ward mounts a definitive defence of mind as prior to matter. In an accessible style, he unpacks the sources and abilities of the mind, situates it in the wider world, or cosmos, and proposes a relation between mind and virtue, and the nature of mind after death. Along the way, he explores the different philosophical approaches to the mind-matter question taken by thinkers over time, settling on idealism as the teaching of most classical philosophers, and as most consistent with modern science. Lay readers and scholars alike will relish Ward's clear, methodical exposition, and his counterarguments against the materialist narrative that dominates much of popular philosophical thinking today.
The Priority of Mind features in the following genres: Philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion
The Priority of Mind is available in Paperback
The Priority of Mind was written by Keith Ward and published by James Clarke an imprint of James Clarke & Co Ltd
The Priority of Mind has 90 pages