TY - BOOK ID - 85494042 TI - Religion, neuroscience and the self : a new personalism PY - 2021 SN - 9780367028961 0367028964 9780429001079 042900107X 9780429671432 0429671431 9780429672927 0429672926 9780429669941 0429669941 9781032176000 PB - London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - Personalism KW - Religion KW - Neurosciences KW - Self KW - 159.9:2 KW - 215 KW - Personal identity KW - Consciousness KW - Individuality KW - Mind and body KW - Personality KW - Thought and thinking KW - Will KW - Neural sciences KW - Neurological sciences KW - Neuroscience KW - Medical sciences KW - Nervous system KW - Religion, Primitive KW - Atheism KW - Irreligion KW - Religions KW - Theology KW - Person (Philosophy) KW - Individualism KW - Philosophy KW - 215 Godsdienst en wetenschap KW - 215 Religion et science KW - Godsdienst en wetenschap KW - Religion et science KW - 159.9:2 Godsdienstpsychologie KW - Godsdienstpsychologie KW - Personalism. KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Religious studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85494042 AB - "This book uses neuroscience discoveries concerning religious experiences, the Self and personhood to deepen, enhance and interrogate the theological and philosophical set of ideas known as Personalism. McNamara proposes a new eschatological form of personalism that is consistent with current neuroscience models of relevant brain functions concerning the self and personhood and that can meet the catastrophic challenges of the 21st century. Eschatological Personalism, rooted in the philosophical tradition of "Boston Personalism", takes as its starting point the personalist claim that the significance of a self and personality is not fully revealed until it has reached its endpoint, but theologically that end point can only occur within the eschatological realm. That realm is explored in the book along with implications for personalist theory and ethics. Topics covered include the agent intellect, dreams and the imagination, future-orientation and eschatology, phenomenology of Time, social ethics, Love, the challenge of AI, privacy and solitude and the individual ethic of autarchy. This book is an innovative combination of the neuroscientific and theological insights provided by a Personalist viewpoint. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Cognitive Science, Theology, Religious Studies and the philosophy of the mind"-- ER -