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John Horgan

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JOHN HORGAN is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. A former senior writer at Scientific American (1986-1997), he has also written for The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, Discover, The London Times, The Times Literary Supplement, New Scientist, and other publications around the world. He blogs for the Center for Science Writings and for Bloggingheads.tv (see links at left).

His latest book is Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality, published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin in January 2003 and in paperback by Mariner Books in March 2004.

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Books by John Horgan

Average rating: 3.47 · 338 ratings · 52 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment 3.61 avg rating — 142 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age 3.33 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation 3.51 avg rating — 39 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The End of War 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Where Was God on September 11? by John Horgan, Frank Geer 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	My rating:
	The Psychology of Terrorism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Future of Terrorism by Max Taylor (Editor), John Horgan (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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“That night Koch... tacked Chalmers down at a cocktail party for the conferencees and chastised him for his speech. It is precisely because philisophical approaches to consciousness have all failed that scientists must focue on the brain, Koch declared in his rapid-fire German-accented voice, his rubberneckers gathered. Chalmers's information-based theory of consciousness, Koch continued, liek all philosophical ideas, was untestable and therefore useless. "Why don't you just say that when you have a brain the Holy Ghost comes down and makes you conscious!" Koch exlaimed. Such a theory was unnecissarily complicated, Chalmers responded drily, and it would not accord with his own subjective experience. "But how do I know that your subjective experience is the same as mine?" Koch sputtered. "How do I even know you're conscious?”
― John Horgan

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