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Is the mind just a by-product of the brain? Or is mind the fundamental reality, which creates matter? In The Priority of Mind, Keith Ward mounts a definitive defence of mind as prior to matter. In an accessible style, he unpacks the sources and abilities of the mind, situates it in the wider world, or cosmos, and proposes a relation between mind and virtue, and the nature of mind after death.
Along the way, he explores the different philosophical approaches to the mind-matter question taken by thinkers over time, settling on idealism as the teaching of most classical philosophers, and as most consistent with modern science. Lay readers and scholars alike will relish Ward's clear, methodical exposition, and his counterarguments against the materialist narrative that dominates much of popular philosophical thinking today.
Contents
Introduction 1
Part One: Mind 4
1. The Sources of Mind 4
2. The Brain and the Mind 7
3. Dreaming 9
4 Freedom and Creativity 12
5. The Self as Agent 15
6. The Sensory World 19
7. Value and Purpose 22
8. Thoughts 24
9. Mind and Objective Reality 28
10. Artificial Intelligence 30
11. The Irony of Materialism 31
Part Two: Cosmos 34
1. The Cosmic Mind 34
2. Creative Change 37
3. Mind and Purpose 40
4. Emergence 44
5. Value 46
6. The Self-Realizing Universe 48
7. The Unfolding of Mind 50
Abstract of the Argument in Parts One or Two
Part One: Mind 52
Part Two: Cosmos 54
Part Three: Virtue 56
1. Truth 56
2. Beauty 61
3. Love 64
4. Idealism and Virtues 67
Part Four: Afterlife 70
1. The Life to Come 70
Conclusion 75
Appendix 79
