Choosing Reality

A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind (2nd Ed.)

B. Alan Wallace

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English

Snow Lion
15 February 2013

Religion & beliefs; Buddhism

Choosing Reality shows how Buddhist contemplative methods of investigating reality are relevant for modern physics and psychology. How shall we understand the relationship between the way we experience reality and the way science describes it? In examining this question, Alan Wallace discusses two opposing views- the realist view, which argues that scientific theories represent objective reality, and the instrumentalist view, which states that concepts cannot describe what exists independently of them. Finding both of these philosophies of science inadequate, the author explores the Buddhist middle way view and the relevance for modern physics of Buddhist contemplative methods of investigating reality. He also examines the ideas of body, mind, and reincarnation from the viewpoint of Tibetan Buddhism.

By: B. Alan Wallace
Imprint: Snow Lion
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 329g
ISBN: 9781559391993
ISBN 10: 1559391995
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 15 February 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind (2nd Ed.)

A reflective philosophical analysis based on sound knowledge of physics and Buddhist thought. --Choice magazine <p/> Choosing Reality shares the podium with The Tao of Physics and The Dancing Wu Li Masters and wears the gold medal. It is a triumphant commentary on the relationship between physics and mind, science, and religion. --John Tigue, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Daemen College B. Alan Wallace's proposed solution, using Buddhist understandings, to the philosophical dilemma of whether the world should be understood from a 'realist' or an 'instrumentalist' point of view. The former sees our scientific models of the world as independently real, the latter as only summaries of experience. --Science & Theology News