Tag: consciousness
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Recommended Reading on Philosophy of the Self in Islam and Neuroscience
Recommended by Muhammad U. Faruque, Inayat Malik Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati and a Taft Center Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. He also holds a Visiting Scholar position at Harvard University. Prof. Faruque offers his book recommendations below on the philosophy of the self in Islam and modern neuroscience, a nascent subject…
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Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing
Sculpting the Self addresses “what it means to be human” in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of self and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical and mystical thought. Alongside detailed analyses of three major Islamic thinkers (Mullā Ṣadrā, Shāh Walī Allāh, and Muhammad Iqbal), this study also situates their writings on selfhood within…
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The Mystery of Consiousness
Philosopher & Physician Raymond Tallis in conversation with Saad Ismail on the intellectual diseases of ‘Neuromania’ and ‘Darwinitis’, on the insufficiency of naturalism in explaining consiousness, on humanism & anti-humanists, on God & transcendence, on the soul & afterlife, and on straddling multiple intellectual identities.
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