Reality’s Fugue: Reconciling Worldviews in Philosophy, Religion, and Science

By clarifying the differences among first-person, third-person, and dualist understandings of reality, F. Reality’s Fugue presents a compelling case that these ways of understanding, often seen as competing, are part of a larger puzzle that cannot be rendered by one account of reality alone.This book begins with an overview of the concept of reality and the philosophical difficulties associated with attempts to account for it through any single worldview. His alternative mode of understanding uses Douglas Hofstadter’s metaphor of a musical fugue that allows different “voices” and &l

Samuel Brainard is an independent scholar of Asian and Western religion and philosophy. F. He is the author of Reality and Mystical Experience, also published by Penn State University Press.