Our Place in Nature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. How Can Life of Value Best Flourish in the Real World? 1
5. I. FROM KNOWLEDGE TO WISDOM
6. Sonnets on Wisdom in Honour of Nick Maxwell 57
7. Nicholas Maxwell in Context: The Relationship of His Wisdom Theses to the Contemporary Global Interest in Wisdom 61
8. Prolegomena To a Critique of Pure Wisdom 83
9. Why is it so Hard to Move from Knowledge to Wisdom? 93
10. The Urgent Need for an Intellectual Revolution: Maxwell's Version 111
11. No Easy Answers: Wisdom and Cognitive Science 129
12. How Should Research be Organised? An Alternative to the UK Research Assessment Exercise 147
13. II. HUMAN WORLD AND THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE
14. Our Place in Nature 169
15. Maxwell on Free Will, Science and Determinism 183
16. Limits of Physicalism 199
17. III. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
18. Metaphysics and Methodology: Aim- Oriented Empiricism 217
19. Popper and Maxwell on Scientific Progress 233
20. IV. REPLIES AND REFLECTIONS
21. Replies and Reflections 249
22. Selected Publications of Nicholas Maxwell 315
23. Notes on Contributors 321