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July/August 2008
Volume 9, Issue 4

Conference 2008 Issue Subject, Self, and Soul:
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personhood

Visual Explorations
The Mind and Its Now
by Stanley L. Jaki

“[The] astonishing speed which may enable man to catch the Higgs boson...will not catch the now.” more
Exploring Non-Reductionism and Levels of Reality
by John van Breda

“In other words, the complexity of the world we are facing today resists all our reductionist and fragmentary ideas, notions, and representations of reality. We are compelled to think beyond, across, and between the disciplinary boundaries.” more

The Singularity of Self in the Later Foucault
by John McSweeney

“Foucault’s work... engages with such questions of singularity and the real in ways that challenge the trajectories of Badiou and Žižek...” more
A Phenomenology of Self, Psyche, and Soul
by Felicity Kelcourse

“An ability to describe fictive parts of what is in reality a seamless whole is a useful exercise because the act of naming allows us to better appreciate the dynamic functioning of our intrapsychic and interpersonal experience.” more

You Have to Take it With You: The Embodied Nature of the Religious Self
by Jonathan Weidenbaum

“With the predominance of process and existentialist philosophies, not to mention postmodern and liberation theologies of a thousand different kinds (including feminism), the disembodied soul...seems to have vanished with the cloister and the hairshirt.” more
The Possibility of Practical Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary Model for Discernment
by Gary Boelhower

“Wisdom is not an abstraction. It isn’t a static state of peace, beauty, or justice...The quest for wisdom requires two key dimensions: a process for wise decision-making and a set of criteria upon which to base judgments.” more


The Myth of Religious Neutrality
The Myth of Religious Neutrality

A radical reinterpretation of the general relations between
religion, science, and philosophy.

By Roy Clouser

“It is by the theories of philosophy and the sciences that we probe the deeper nature of, and construct explanations of, all that we experience. The central claim of this book is that no such theory can fail to be regulated and guided by some religious belief or other.” more

Conference Select
Outstanding articles from the 2007 Metanexus Conference
Transdisciplinarity: Going Beyond the Science-Religion Debate
By Basarab Nicolescu

“Modern science was born through a violent break with the ancient vision of the world. This break allowed science to develop independently of theology, philosophy and culture. But today, the extreme consequences of this break, incarnated by the ideology of scientism, become a potential danger of self-destruction of our species.” more

Columns
Peripatetic Praxis
by Eric Weislogel

On the Impossible... more
Polydoxy
by V. V. Raman

Mathematics and the Dynamic Aspects of the Physical World. more
Deconstructing Europe
by Emanuel Paparella

The Loss of European Spiritual Identity - III. more
Mind Readers Dictionary
by Jeremy Sherman

Means and Ends: Opening a can (and can’t) of worms. more
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"To 'have imagination' is to be able to see the world in its totality, for the power and the mission of the Images is to show all that remains refractory to the concept: hence the disfavour and failure of the man 'without imagination'; he is cut off from the deeper reality of life and from his own soul."
-Mircea Eliade, Images and Symbols
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