Article: The soul of the gaps.(Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century)(Book review)

Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, and Bruce Greyson. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. 832 pp., $99.95. ISBN 0-7425-4792-2

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DISCUSSING PSYCHOANALYSTS, Ludwig Wittgenstein once quipped that "they have given up one way of thinking and adopted another." This diagnosis certainly applies to the authors of Irreducible Mind (henceforth IM), although reading through this 800-page volume makes it clear that they would take it as a compliment. The book is an ambitious work, as it explicitly purports to "justify and to some extent ...

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