Radical Nature · the Soul of Matter by Quincey, Christian de -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Epigraph Preface Introduction: The Paradox of Consciousness

A Project for Our Times A Postmodern Paradigm of Paradox

PART I

CRISIS: OUR COSMOLOGY STORY

Deserts of Meaning Limitations of the Old Story Breakdown of the Old Story Anomalies That Challenge the Old Story The Curious Paradox of the Modernist Story The Intrinsic Narrative of Matter The Dream of Idealism The Fourth Alternative

Openings: A Place for Meaning Breakthrough: A New Cosmology Story Narratives: Rediscovering the Soul of Matter PART II

OPTIONS: CLASHING WORLDVIEWS

A Bias in Our Language The Challenge of Subjectivity Metaphors of Meaning Why Consciousness is Not Energy Consciousness: Nonlocal or Nonlocated? Consciousness Matter Energy Information Meaning The Problem of Other Minds The Mind-Body Problem The Problem of Free Will A Radical Way Out? The Orphic Influence The Panpsychist Lineage Neoplatonism and the Panpsychist Lineage Leibniz, Spinoza, and Chinese Influence The Romantic Vision Problem with Panpsychism? Problem with the Perennial Philosophy? Breaking the Eternal Tangled Loop

Meanings: Language, Energy, and Consciousness Knots: The Problems of Consciousness Panpsychism: A Long Lineage of Mind-in-Matter PART III

SOLUTION: POSTMODERN PROMISE

Cosmology First Begin with Experience Understanding Whitehead Whitehead’s Reassessment of Modernism Causality as Feeling The Mysterious Flame Faith in Rationalism Talking Past Each Other Consciousness All the Way Down? Consciousness All the Way Up Criteria for an Adequate Worldview Lurking Idealism? Matter, Mind, and Mystery The Panexperientialist Solution Reconciling Materialism and Idealism The Binding Problem: A Solution Free Will All the Way Down Challenge to Epistemology Conclusion Radical Naturalism Giordano Bruno: Revolutionary Cosmologist A New View of Mind and Matter Elements of the New Story Conclusion Fishing for Consciousness The Basis of Consciousness

Resolution: Whitehead’s Postmodern Cosmology Panexperientialism: Consciousness All the Way Down? Integrating Worldviews: Past Matter, Present Mind Conclusion: Stories Matter, Matter Stories Epilogue Glossary Footnotes Endnotes Bibliography About the Author About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company Books of Related Interest Copyright & Permissions