Bücher von Errol E. Harris

PrefaceI. Introduction: The Nature and VindicationPrevalent Repudiation of Metaphysics What is Metaphysics? The Restoration of MetaphysicsII. Metaphysical Problems of TimePassage, Movement, and Measurement How Do We Identify the Present? Change, Permanence, and the Transcendence of Passage Spinoza Provides a ClueIII. Physical TimeAttempts to Eliminate Passage from Physical Time Process, Order, and Chaos The Paradoxes of Zeno Cosmic Time Time Reversal Cosmic History and Cosmic UnityIV. Biological TimeOrganism and Duree The Emergence of Life Evolution Environment and Biological Clocks Behavior Biocoenoses ConclusionV. Psychological TimeThe Stream of Consciousness The Specious Present Time and the Transcendental Subject The Problem of the Transcendental Ego Soultion to the ProblemVI. Historical TimeRes Gestae The Idea of the Historical Past The Historical Process Structuralism and DeconstructionismVII. Dialectic in HistoryHistorical Thinking Transformation of Conceptual Schemes The Dialectical Scale Historical Objectivity The Historical UniversalVIII. Evolution and OmegaEvolution , Diachronic, and Synchronic The Features of Wholeness Differentiation and Process The Clue to "Omega" Omega and Time Omega and Deity "Mysticism"NotesSelect BibliographyIndex

The essential puzzle of consciousness is how the electro-chemical activity constantly occurring in the brain translates into the conscious experience we enjoy.

Nine authors associated with the world federalist movement critique the 1995 Report on the Commission on Global Governance entitled "Our Global Neighborhood". The contributors viewpoints seem varied, but they are unanimous in their condemnation of the report.

This text seeks to demonstrate the continuing influence of Newtonian scientific paradigms in 20th-century philosophic, ethical, economic and social habits of thought.