books by John Horgan (connectionism undiscovered spirituality)

books by John Horgan

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2 reviews
Bruce Berg, John Horgan

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1998

Exceptional Book
Bruce Berg does it again. Another exceptional book that anyone interested in the subject must have. This book features many design characteristics that make it easy and even fun to read. No matter what book you currently count on for Criminal Investigation, if you don't have this text in your library, you are lacking the finest text on the subject.

Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment

49 reviews
John Horgan

Mariner Books, 2004

Really interesting
In Rational mysticism we follow science journalist John Horgan on his pursuit of (scientific) explanations and research about spiritual experiences. First he sketches out different kind of spiritual experiences and mystical visions. Then he travels around meeting as diverse people as the theologian Huston Smith, psychologist Susan Blackmore, brain researcher James Austin, Terence McKenna, ...

The Psychology of Terrorism (Cass Series: Political Violence)

2 reviews
John Horgan

Frank Cass, 2005

Psychological View of the Terrorist Personality.
How and why does someone become a terrorist? Are there common causes? Is there a terrorist personality? For the first time I've seen, a senior psychologist has approached the concept of terrorism with a view to trying to understand what makes the mind of the terrorist work. Only with a greater understanding of every aspect of terrorism will we be able to work out the techniques that will ...

Where Was God on September 11? (A Scientist Asks a Ground Zero Pastor)

3 reviews
John Horgan, Frank Geer

Browntrout Publishers, 2002

Compassion and empathy
Imagine two kind, thoughtful, intelligent people sitting in your kitchen with you and trying to make sense out of a senseless event. This brief and moving book invites you, the reader, into the conversation of two such people, one of whom believes in a Christian God and one of whom does not. Science writer John Horgan says: "I can't accept the idea that there is some kind of divine intelligence ...

The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age

65 reviews
John Horgan

Broadway Books, 1997

John Horgan is the Judas of Science: the enemy of fact
He pretty much knew that he was writing tripe. John Horgan mistakes his popularity and scientific political power for knowledge and wisdom. I suppose that ethics is dead as well, so that he is allowed to be this evil. By talking with all these great men he had a chance for real knowledge and instead he made verbal cartoons and ridiculed all their ideas. He would definitely be the lawyer for ...

The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation

29 reviews
John Horgan

Free Press, 2000

outstanding and controversial
I'm familiar with John Horgan's earlier book, The End of Science, and I recently came across this book. Although I disagree to some degree with perhaps its most basic assertion--that science never will fully understand or explain the mind--The Undiscovered Mind is outstandingly well written and researched, and was a pleasure to read. I was expecting a more one-sided polemic, and there is a ...

Mary Robinson: A Woman of Ireland and the World
John Horgan

Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1998

In this insightful biography of former Republic of Ireland president Mary Robinson, John Horgan offers a rare, close-up view of an exemplary modern woman. Declining a second term, Robinson, known as a champion of the poor, the oppressed, and underprivileged, currently continues her humanitarian work at the helm of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations. 24 photos $20,000 marketing campaign.

Walking Away from Terrorism (Cass Series on Political Violence)
John Horgan

Routledge, 2009

This book focuses on identifying the tipping points for disengagement from terrorism, and is informed by the detailed, illuminating and sometimes extraordinary accounts that the terrorists themselves offer about the reasons why they left terrorism behind. The book will be structured along four major issues: 1) What do we currently know about disengagement and de-radicalization from terrorism? 2) What do terrorists themselves say ...

Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology (Bradford Books)

1 review
Terence Horgan, John Tienson

The MIT Press, 1996

Too early to judge
This is a very nice book; I'm giving it only three stars because it might ultimately prove to be completely wrong...the classical cog sci vs. connectionism debate is all conjecture at this point. There are a few things in the book I don't like, such as odd informal and arguably irrelevant scenarios involving playing basketball and feeling the need to go to the refrigerator for a beer. Also I ...

Irish Media: A Critical History, Since 1922
John Horgan

Routledge, 2001

Irish Media maps the landscape of media in Ireland from the foundation of the modern state in 1922 to the present. Covering all principal media forms, print and electronic, in the Republic and in Northern Ireland, Horgan shows how Irish history and politics have shaped the media of Ireland and, in turn, have been shaped by them.

Yale Review Winter 1930
Archibald MacLeish, John Truslow Adams, ...

Yale University Press, 1930

Contents as follows: President Hoover in International Relations by Mark Sullivan Conquistador -- Verse by Archibald MacLeish The Working of the Mandates by William Ernest Hocking The Present Phase of the War Debts by Garrard Winston Stagecoach Weather -- Verse by Geoffrey Johnson Henry Adams and the New Physics by John Truslow Adams Orpheus in Zion by Lucien Price Southern Mill People by E.T. H. Shaffer The Head of the House ...