David Brooks, in his New York Times op-ed column "The Neural Buddhists," offers speculations about how the "cognitive revolution" will…
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neuroscience
Medical materialism revisited
June 30, 2008
A century ago, in "Religion and Neurology," the opening chapter of The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James argued against…
A religious history of American neuroscience
June 24, 2008
Not long ago, researchers wired up the atheist Richard Dawkins with a helmet that would create magnetic fields partially simulating…
The Buddha according to Brooks
June 12, 2008
On Sunday May 25, 2008 the New York Times published an article entitled “Superhighway to Bliss” about Jill Bolte Taylor,…
The cognitive revolution and the decline of monotheism
May 30, 2008
To appreciate the cultural impact of the “cognitive revolution” discussed by David Brooks in his New York Times op-ed column…