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Readings suggested by Dr. Alan Batten:
- 1. Francis Crick: The Astonishing Hypothesis (Simon and Schuster 1994)The final Chapter (Dr Crick's Sunday Morning Service) and possibly the brief Postscript on Free Will. In order to make sense, one should also read the very first paragraph of Chapter 1.
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2. A.G. Cairns-Smith: Evolving the Mind (Cambridge U.P. 1998) Chapter 6 or possibly Chapter 8 might be of interest in context.
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3. V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee: Phantoms in the Brain (Quill 1998) Chapter 9, God and the Limbic System might be of
interest.
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4. Patricia Smith Churchland: Neurophilosophy (MIT Press 1988) The neuroscience chapters are now out of date and the philosophical
chapters are strongly biassed towards a materialistic and reductionist position.
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5. J.B. Ashbrook and C.R. Albright: The Human Mind and the Mind of
God: Where Religion and Neuroscience Meet (Pilgrim Press 1997).
There is a not entirely
favourable review of it in the CTNS Bulletin Vol. 18 No. 3
(Summer 1998) which might itself stimulate discussion. There
is also an article by the same two authors in Zygon Vol. 34 No. 3
(September 1999) which you can find in the McPherson. The same
issue of Zygon has a long article on the topic by Ian Barbour
There are also two relevant articles
by E.G. d'Aquili and A.R. Newberg in the March 2000 issue of Zygon.
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6. The May/June issue of Science and Spirit (put out by the Templeton
Organization) has several relevant articles of which "Darwin on
the Brain" by Michael Ruse might be the most suitable for our
purposes.
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7. J.M. Robson (ed.): Origin and Evolution of the Universe: Evidence
for Design? (McGill-Queen's 1987). The Chapter by Richard
Swinburne might be of interest.
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8. G. Ryle: The Concept of Mind It was, of course, written long before the latest neuroscience
developed, but his remarks on "The Ghost in the Machine" might
spark some debate.
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