Contents -- Preface -- How Can Life Of Value Best Flourish in the Real World -- 1. The Urgent Need for an Intellectual Revolution -- 2. Two Fundamental Problems -- 3. Autobiographical Remarks -- 4. What Kind of Inquiry Can Best Help Life of Value to Flourish? -- 5. The Human World/Physical Universe Problem -- 6. Connections Between the Two Problems -- Sonnets on Wisdom -- Faustus in us -- Wise at heart -- The Way Of Wisdom -- The Spirit of Wisdom -- Nicholas Maxwell in Context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. New Academic Courses, Programs and Departments Formed inResponse to Human Problems -- 3. Academic Research Associated with "What is of Value in Life" -- 4. Wisdom Education -- 5. Conclusion -- Prolegomena To a Critique of PureWisdom -- 1. Why Wisdom Is Unloved by Western Philosophers -- 2. Wisdom as the Enemy of Prophecy and Progress -- 3. Is 'Maxwellian Wisdom' Really Wisdom or Simply FinalizedScience? -- Why is it so Hard to Move fromKnowledge to Wisdom? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why not? - The Social Dimension -- 3. Tyranny and Voluntary Servitude -- 4. Capitalism -- 6. Epilogue -- The Urgent Need for an IntellectualRevolution: Maxwell's Version -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Advocacy of Knowledge without Wisdom -- 3. For Wisdom to Take Over -- 4. Decisions about Agendas -- 5. Agendas as Coordinating Institutions -- 6. Agendas in History -- 7. Political Agendas -- 8. Muddling Through Agendas -- 9. Conclusion -- No Easy Answers:Wisdom and Cognitive Science -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Computers and Cognitive Science -- 3. Computers and the Military -- 4. Military Themes -- 5. Keeping One's Hands Clean -- 6. Might-Have-Beens and Might-Bes -- 7. Is Un-Wisdom Built In? -- 8. Conclusion -- How Should Research be Organised? AnAlternative to the UK ResearchAssessment Exercise -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Critique of the RAE. Throwing Away the Pink Diamonds.

3.Why the RAE Makes Teaching Worse -- 4. Why Rewarding Teaching Will Improve Research -- Our Place in Nature -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Starting-Point: a Take on Popper's Epistemology -- 3. Reduction -- 4. Maxwell and Popper on Our Place in Nature -- 5. Some Argument -- 6. Conclusion -- Maxwell on Free Will, Science andDeterminism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multiaspectism -- 3. Science or Determinism? -- 4. Evolution and Rationality -- 5. The End of Determinism? -- Limits of Physicalism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Outline of HWPU and my Disagreement -- 3. Maxwell's Argument for Physicalism -- 4. A Contrary Viewpoint -- 5. Reasonable Decision-making -- 6. The Evolution of Purpose -- Metaphysics and Methodology: Aim-Oriented Empiricism -- 1. AOE and Maxwell's Critique of Standard Empiricism (SE) -- 2. SE and Criticisms of Maxwell's AOE -- 3. Conclusion -- Popper and Maxwell on ScientificProgress -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Popper's Falsification and Explanation -- 3. Maxwell's Critique: Aim Oriented Empiricism -- 4. Evaluation -- 5. Conclusion -- Replies and Reflections -- Selected Publications ofNicholas Maxwell -- Notes on Contributors.