In Intersensory Origin of Mind (Routledge, £45, ISBN 0 415 12003 9),
Shipley offers an idiosyncratic voyage through a wide assortment of crucially
important issues, with some fascinating flashes of illumination. Sadly,
Shipley’s notion that mind is the “conductor” of the sense-data orchestra loses
my vote. Having yet to escape from reductionism and positivism, he ends up too
convoluted to help much.
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