Gleiser Great Minds Don’t Think Alike

Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55537-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch

Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues model constructive engagement between the sciences and the humanities—and show why intellectual cooperation is necessary to shape our collective future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gleiser, Marcelo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The Dialogues
1.The Mystery of Consciousness: A Dialogue Between a Neuroscientist and a Philosopher, by David Chalmers and Antonio Damasio
2. The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist, by Sean Carroll and B. Alan Wallace
3. Future of Intelligence: Human, Machine, and Extraterrestrial: A Dialogue Between an Astronomer and a Philosopher, by Patricia Churchland and Jill Tarter
4. The Nature of Spirituality: A Dialogue on Science and Religion, by Rebecca Goldstein and Alan Lightman
5. The Mystery of Time: A Dialogue Between a Science Historian and a Physicist, by Jimena Canales and Paul Davies
6. Cyborgs, Futurists, and Transhumanism: A Dialogue Between a Neuroscientist and an Author, by Ed Boyden and Mark O’Connell
7. On Human and Planetary Longevity: A Dialogue Between an Environmentalist and a Doctor, by Elizabeth Kolbert and Siddhartha Mukherjee
8. On Being Human: A Dialogue on Literary and Scientific Perspectives, by Jeremy DeSilva, David Grinspoon, and Tasneem Zehra Husain
Where Do We Go from Here?
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, professor of physics and astronomy, and director of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth College. His many books include The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning (2014). He is the 2019 Templeton Prize laureate.