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Turner Tales, Essays, and Quatroons

By: Merle B. Turner

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Turner Tales, Essays, and Quatroons

By: Merle B. Turner

The tales in this collection are those of an inveterate insomniac. The characters, and their predicaments, come on stage when the lights are not quite focused, the cues still muffled from the curtains of fantasy. Perhaps it is fitting. My pretensions to competence, if such there were, are in the philosophy of science, where the debate was and continues to be: how much is invention and how much is real. ’Tis no different in my insomniac excursions.Those characters that come into focus? Some are invention, some are real.

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1462810357

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9781462810352

The Mind-Body Problem: Knot or Not?

By: Merle B. Turner

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The Mind-Body Problem: Knot or Not?

By: Merle B. Turner

The Mind-Body Problem Examined The mystery of consciousness and its relationship to the mind and the material world remains a philosophical enigma. This book is a comprehensive review of the thoughts and research devoted to this problem over the last century and offers the sometimes surprising views of psychologist/philosopher Merle Turner. Written over a period of fifteen years, The Mind-Body Problem: Knot or Not? is the latest word on the identity theory--that mind and body are one. The ontological problem--reality of mind and body; the epistemic problem--interaction of the body and mind; and the methodological problem--relation of knowledge of the mind to the brain are all thoroughly explained. His audience is not limited to professionals. Any concerned lay person or student can follow the arguments. In short, this book offers a brilliant, lucid examination of consciousness and of how the divide between mind and brain can be bridged without denying the reality of either.

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1462810349

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9781462810345

Friendship

How we lose friends and alienate people

By: Merle B. Turner

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Friendship

How we lose friends and alienate people

By: Merle B. Turner

Merle B. Turner earned degrees in psychology and philosophy at Willamette University, Stanford University and the University of Colorado, Boulder. His PhD thesis reported on experiments in perception which he found were paramount to ones preferences. Regarding friendship, he realized that one’s perception of another was the root of the forming and dissolving of friendships. Throughout his life, but especially in the post-war years, as a student at Stanford and the University of Colorado, as a professor at San Diego State University, and as an ocean cruiser on his sailboat, he was led to observe himself, his colleagues, fellow adventurers and his family in the context of how friendships are made, how they disintegrate, and how alienation may occur following some critical incident. He decided he could construct a model of friendship, including the role of critical incidents which might be useful not only to himself but to others. He presents his model in this book.

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1462810330

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9781462810338

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