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# The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature Paperback – November 30, 2012

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a wonderful book. The first part of it might be ...
*by E***G on August 2, 2015*

This is a wonderful book. The first part of it might be a bit of a slog -- it is very academic and works through the process of defining every word that Restall-Orr is about to use to describe this religious philosophy -- but once you get through that the value of it becomes clear. I've been reading this book concurrently with How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond The Human by Eduardo Kohn, and these two books fit together perfectly. If I were teaching a course on Animism, these might well be the two main texts I would work through with my students.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A serious philosophical foundation for Animism
*by D***R on June 23, 2017*

This is not a religious book. Others have described it as an apologetics, but I don't agree: I think this is a work of philosophy, on the borders of personal identity, philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Its a logical and clearly thought argument for the intuition that the personal consciousness we all individually experience is not only *not* the only consciousness there is, but not even the only conversation-among-consciousnesses there is. If I were still teaching I'd use this alongside Thomas Nagel's "A View From Nowhere" for an undergrad course, because between Nagel's semi-phenomenological ability to get you to think critically about mind, and Restall Orr's explosion of some truly unintuitive and dogmatic assumptions underlying the dualism/monism distinctions in philosophy of mind, you'd have a good grounding in how to do philosophy and a good understanding of what the actual issues were in philosophy of mind.But I think Restall Orr doesn't just provide a solid criticism of the dualism/monism problems in philosophy of mind, she provides a solid analytical foundation for understanding why animism seems to some of us the more sensible and intuitive philosophy of mind. But more than that, she demonstrates that philosophical inquiry can be fun and can still dramatically expand the range of acceptable position.I should add: There's nothing wrong with apologetics or religion, and both can be as logically rigorous as you want. But there's a specific way of looking at the world if you're a philosopher, and this way of looking at the world is what Restall Orr accomplished for Animism.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Detailed Analysis
*by M***Y on March 23, 2014*

Animism is widely considered to be a primitive perspective, long since superseded. Emma Restall Orr shows why that is not at all true. Dismissing simplistic definitions that she describes as having been "drawn in crayon," she unpacks the philosophical underpinnings of an animist worldview in painstaking detail. Don't expect a fast or easy read; she's working here with detailed philosophical argument and expects her readers to pay close attention. For the reader willing to do so, this is a rewarding read.

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