William James and the humanistic implications of the neuroscience revolution: An outrageous hypothesis

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 410-429

  Taylor, Eugene ^a,b,c  

^a SAYBROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c The Cambridge Institute of Psychology and Religion   (United States)

Author keywords

consciousness; epistemology; neurophenomenology; neuroscience; radical empiricism; William James

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956623843     PISSN: 00221678     EISSN: 1552650X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022167810376305     Document Type: Article

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