Mysticism and scientific naturalism
How, from a scientific standpoint, should we understand mystical experiences? On the one hand such experiences are obviously capable of being studied scientifically. Nevertheless there is a sense in which such experiences often seem strongly opposed to our ordinary scientific views of reality, for t...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Springer Netherlands
2004
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Sophia
Año: 2004, Volumen: 43, Número: 1, Páginas: 83-99 |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
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B Mystical Experience B Objective World B Transcendental Meditation B Methodological Naturalism |
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| Sumario: | How, from a scientific standpoint, should we understand mystical experiences? On the one hand such experiences are obviously capable of being studied scientifically. Nevertheless there is a sense in which such experiences often seem strongly opposed to our ordinary scientific views of reality, for they often seem to point to a domain quite outside that examined by naturalistic empirical science. Indeed, this is often precisely what seems to be ‘mystical’ about them. The present essay takes a hard look at specific question of the possible significance of these experiences for scientific naturalism. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/BF02782439 |