The Human Being, the World and God Studies at the Interface of Philo
This book offers a philosophical analysis of what it is to be a human being in all her aspects. It analyses what is meant by the self and the I and how this feeling of a self or an I is connected to the brain. It studies specific cases of brain disor
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The Human Being, the World and God Studies at the Interface of Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mind and Neuroscience
The Human Being, the World and God
Anne L.C. Runehov
The Human Being, the World and God Studies at the Interface of Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mind and Neuroscience
Anne L.C. Runehov Department of Systematic Theology Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden
ISBN 978-3-319-44390-4 ISBN 978-3-319-44392-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44392-8
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Dedicated with love to my dear husband Hans for his endless love and encouraging support.
Preface
Nine years has passed since my very first book, Sacred or Neural? The Potential of Neuroscience to Explain Religious Experience, was published. This was, it is needless to say, a major moment in my life. In 2013, the Encyclopedia of Science and Religions was finally published, after 7 years of hard work, not least because this enterprise was done alongside other publications, in which I act as author, editor, and both. After the publication of the encyclopedia, I realized that the time had come to write a monograph again. Hence, I started to gather ideas and research I had been performing since my dissertation in 2004. The Human Being, the World and God mirrors the research I did as a postdoctoral fellow at the Copenhagen University during 2006–2010. The first 2 years were funded by the Uppsala University, the last 2 years by the Copenhagen Research Program of Excellence Naturalism and Christian Semantics, led by Niels Henrik Gregersen and Troels Engberg-Pedersen. The project I was working on at that time was called “Empathy in the Age of Neuroscience.” While empathy is a major subject matter of this manuscript,
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