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Author : Thomas Natsoulas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107022270
This book seeks to explicate six basic concepts of consciousness from a variety of psychological, philosophical, historical, and lexicographic perspectives.
Author : Helen Moss,James Hampton,James A. Hampton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 1841699586
This special issue on conceptual representation contains invited papers from leading researchers across the range of cognitive science disciplines, addressing the nature of semantic and conceptual representation in the mind and brain.
Author : Thomas Natsoulas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107083509
This volume extends Thomas Natsoulas' development of the psychology of consciousness by giving sustained attention to the stream of consciousness and its component 'pulses of experience'. Combining scholarship across psychology, philosophy and cognate fields, Natsoulas highlights surprising connections between the works of leading theorists of consciousness.
Author : Declan Smithies
Publisher : Philosophy of Mind
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199917662
What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief about ourselves and the world around us. On this view, unconscious beings cannot form justified beliefs and so they cannot know anything at all. Consciousness is the ultimate basis of all knowledge and epistemic justification. Smithies builds a sustained argument for the epistemic role of phenomenal consciousness which draws on a range of considerations in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. His position combines two key claims. The first is phenomenal mentalism, which says that epistemic justification is determined by the phenomenally individuated facts about your mental states. The second is accessibilism, which says that epistemic justification is luminously accessible in the sense that you're always in a position to know which beliefs you have epistemic justification to hold. Smithies integrates these two claims into a unified theory of epistemic justification, which he calls phenomenal accessibilism. The book is divided into two parts, which converge on this theory of epistemic justification from opposite directions. Part 1 argues from the bottom up by drawing on considerations in the philosophy of mind about the role of consciousness in mental representation, perception, cognition, and introspection. Part 2 argues from the top down by arguing from general principles in epistemology about the nature of epistemic justification. These mutually reinforcing arguments form the basis for a unified theory of the epistemic role of phenomenal consciousness, one that bridges the gap between epistemology and philosophy of mind.
Author : D. Fisette
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401591935
Philosophy of mind has been one of the most active fields in philosophy for the past three decades. One of the most significant factors in the development of this discipline has been the emergence of cognitive science and the interest philosophers have taken in the empirical study of mind. Another equally important factor has been the "naturalistic tum" brought about by W. V. Quine. His proposal that normative epistemology be replaced by empirical psychology marked a radical departure from the Fregean "anti psychologism" and "apriorism" that had characterized much of the analytic tradition in philosophy. But while Quine's program of naturalization called the attention of philosophers to empirical psychology, his conception of psychology was inspired by an austere behaviorism which shunned the mentalism of intentional psychology in the Brentanian and phenomenological tradition. Thus, while agreeing with Brentano that the "intentional idiom" could not be reduced to that of the natural sciences, Quine argued that it is of a piece with the indeterminacy of translation. Most contributors of this col lection share the cognitivist stance and believe that the mind needs to be explained rather than eliminated. Three main questions are actually confronting current philosophers of mind, each addressed by one or another of the contributors to the present collection.
Author : John Truscott
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783092666
The book offers a novel view of consciousness and its place in second language learning, using the established cognitive framework, MOGUL. It also provides an extensive review of theories of consciousness and related cognitive theory and research, placing that work in the context of second language learning.
Author : Carl B Sachs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317317586
Intentionality is one of the central problems of modern philosophy. How can a thought, action or belief be about something? Sachs draws on the work of Wilfrid Sellars, C I Lewis and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to build a new theory of intentionality that solves many of the problems faced by traditional conceptions.
Author : Michael Tye
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262700883
A further development of Tye's theory of phenomenal consciousness along with replies to common objections.
Author : J. Scott Jordan,Dawn M. McBride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1845400852
This collection of new essays from a range of disciplines concerns the issue of conceptual integration in a science of consciousness, focusing on why such a framework seems so hard to achieve.
Author : Wolfgang Mack,Gerson Reuter
Publisher : Oldenbourg Verlag
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783050047928
Selbstbewusstsein, die Fähigkeit, über uns nachzudenken, uns unserer Gefühle oder Gedanken bewusst zu sein, ist zweifellos eine unserer markantesten und wichtigsten kognitiven Fähigkeiten. Worin besteht Selbstbewusstsein jedoch genauer, welche Teilfähigkeiten kommen zum Tragen, wenn wir uns unserer Gedanken und Gefühle bewusst sind? Und wie erwerben Kleinkinder im Zuge ihrer Entwicklung diese Fähigkeit? Beide Frageperspektiven sind eng miteinander verzahnt. Da empirische und begriffliche Fragen rund um das Phänomen des Selbstbewusstseins nur durch einen intensiv geführten Dialog zwischen Psychologie und Philosophie angemessen beantwortet werden können, versammelt dieser Band Beiträge von Vertretern beider Disziplinen. Das besondere Augenmerk der in Englisch verfassten Beiträge des Bandes gilt der Frage, welche Rolle die soziale Einbettung von Kleinkindern im Erwerb von Selbstbewusstsein und den mit ihr verknüpften kognitiven Fähigkeiten spielt. Vor allem die Annahme, dass Kleinkinder nur dank bestimmter Arten von sozialen Interaktionen die Fähigkeit entwickeln, sich von anderen Personen in der Welt zu unterscheiden und eine eigene Perspektive auf sich und die Welt einzunehmen, wird aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln kritisch geprüft.
Author : Paula Droege
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781350166790
The Evolution of Consciousness brings together interdisciplinary insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology and cognitive science to explain consciousness in terms of the biological function that grounds it in the physical world. Drawing on the novel analogy of a house of cards, Paula Droege pieces together various conceptual questions and shows how they rest on each other to form a coherent, structured argument. She asserts that the mind is composed of unconscious sensory and cognitive representations, which become conscious when they are selected and coordinated into a representation of the present moment. This temporal representation theory deftly bridges the gap between mind and body by highlighting that physical systems are conscious when they can respond flexibly to actions in the present. With examples from evolution, animal cognition, introspection and the free will debate, this is a compelling and animated account of the possible explanations of consciousness, offering answers to the conceptual question of how consciousness can be considered a cognitive process.
Author : Uriah Kriegel,Kenneth Williford
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 9780262612111
Leading theorists examine the self-representational theory of consciousness as an alternative to the two dominant reductive theories of consciousness, the representational theory of consciousness and the higher-order monitoring theory. In this pioneering collection of essays, leading theorists examine the self-representational theory of consciousness, which holds that consciousness always involves some form of self-awareness. The self-representational theory of consciousness stands as an alternative to the two dominant reductive theories of consciousness, the representational theory of consciousness (RTC) and the higher-order monitoring (HOM) theory, combining elements of both RTC and HOM theory in a novel fashion that may avoid the fundamental deficiencies of each. Although self-representationalist views have been common throughout the history of both Western and Eastern philosophy, they have been largely neglected in the recent literature on consciousness. This book approaches the self-representational theory from a range of perspectives, with contributions from scholars in analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and history of philosophy, as well as two longer essays by Antonio Damasio and David Rudrauf and Douglas Hofstadter. The book opens with six essays that argue broadly in favor of self-representationalist views, which are followed by five that argue broadly against them. Contributors next consider connections to such philosophical issues as the nature of propositional attitudes, knowledge, attention, and indexical reference. Finally, Damasio and Rudrauf link consciousness as lived with consciousness as described in neurobiological terms; and Hofstadter compares consciousness to the "strange loop" of mathematical self-reference brought to light by Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Contributors Andrew Brook, Peter Carruthers, Antonio Damasio, John J. Drummond, Jason Ford, Rocco J. Gennaro, George Graham, Christopher S. Hill, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Terry Horgan, Tomis Kapitan, Uriah Kriegel, Keith Lehrer, Joseph Levine, Robert W. Lurz, David Rudrauf, David Woodruff Smith, John Tienson, Robert Van Gulick, Kathleen Wider, Kenneth Williford, Dan Zahavi
Author : Edwin B. Holt
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781596053502
The present volume does not aim to be a system. It does profess not to forget the initial quest of philosophy.Its scope is limited, for it proposed only to give a consistent account, a definition, of one very common yet perplexing feature of the universe - consciousness" -from The Preface By 1914, when he completed The Concept of Consciousness, Holt believed that objects are as initially perceived, that one could relate conscious experience to physical references and that environment is the determining force in life. Contents of this volume include: .The Renaissance of Logic .Objections to the Programme of Logic .Correspondence: The Particular and The Universal .Further Implications of the Programme of Logic .Our Universe at Large .The Substance of Ideas .The Substance of Matter .The Neutral Mosaic .The Concept of Consciousness EDWIN B. HOLT, (1873-1946) born in Winchester, Massachusetts, was an undergraduate at Amherst College, but transferred to Harvard, receiving his A.B. in 1896. Thereafter, he studied with William James, receiving a doctorate in psychology in 1901. Holt taught at Harvard until 1918, and later served for nearly a decade as a Visiting Professor of Psychology at Princeton, where he was widely acclaimed for his brilliant lectures.
Author : Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781466948990
I would like to invite all those studious of the mind/brain interface puzzle to share our insights. What follows represents an ongoing series of reflections on the ontology of consciousness based on some intuitions on life, language acquisition and survival strategies to accommodate the biological, psychic and social imperatives of human life in its ecological niche, thus the BPS model. For the latest publication click on BPS Model. http://www.delaSierra-Sheffer.net/ID-Neurophilo-net/index.htm
Author : Ned Joel Block
Publisher : Bradford Book
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015069300658
The first of a planned two-volume collection of Ned Block's writings on philosophy of mind; this volume treats consciousness, functionalism, and representation and can be regarded as Block's most complete statement of his positions on consciousness.
