03667oam 22004572 450 991079325020332120230817191138.090-04-38597-510.1163/9789004385979(CKB)4100000007200398(MiAaPQ)EBC5609694(nllekb)BRILL9789004385979(EXLCZ)99410000000720039820181015d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConsciousness and loneliness : theoria and praxis /by Ben MijuskovicLeiden ;Boston :Brill Rodopi,[2019]1 online resource (517 pages)Value inquiry book series,0929-8436 ;volume 327Cognitive science90-04-37564-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Copyright Page /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Dedication /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- By Way of a Prologue /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Part 1 /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Introduction to the Simplicity Argument and its Relation to Previous Studies /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Simplicity Argument: Meanings, Relations, and Space /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Simplicity Argument and the Freedom of Consciousness /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Simplicity Argument and Immanent Time-Consciousness /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Simplicity Argument and the Quality of Consciousness /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Neuromania and Neo-Phrenology versus Consciousness /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Part 2 /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Simplicity Argument versus a Materialist Theory of Mind /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Part 3 /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- The Bicameral Mind, the Abyss, and Underworlds /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Loneliness: In Harm’s Way /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existentialism /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- By Way of an Epilogue /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Back Matter -- Bibliography /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Name Index /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic -- Subject Index /Ben Lazare Mijuskovic.Current research claims loneliness is passively caused by external conditions: environmental, cultural, situational, and even chemical imbalances in the brain and hence avoidable. In this book, the author argues that loneliness is actively constituted by acts of reflexive self-consciousness (Kant) and transcendent intentionality (Husserl) and is, therefore, unavoidable. This work employs a historical, conceptual, and interdisciplinary approach (philosophy, psychology, literature, sociology, et cetera) criticizing both psychoanalysis and neuroscience. The book pits materialism, mechanism, determinism, empiricism, phenomenalism, behaviorism, and the neurosciences against dualism, both subjective and objective idealism, rationalism, freedom, phenomenology, and existentialism. It offers a dynamic of loneliness, whose spontaneous subconscious sources undercuts the unconscious of Freud and the “computerism” of the neurosciences by challenging their claims to be predictive sciences.Value Inquiry Book Series327.LonelinessPhilosophyConsciousnessLonelinessPhilosophy.Consciousness.155.92Mijuskovic Ben Lazare1066919NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910793250203321Consciousness and loneliness3829423UNINA