Phenomenology and the physical reality of consciousness [[electronic resource] /] / Arthur Melnick
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| Autore: |
Melnick Arthur
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| Titolo: |
Phenomenology and the physical reality of consciousness [[electronic resource] /] / Arthur Melnick
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 128/.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Thought and thinking |
| Cognition | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Consciousness per se -- pt. 2. Sensory consciousness -- pt. 3. Perceptual consciousness -- pt. 4. Thinking consciousness. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The predominant positive view among philosophers and scientists alike is that consciousness is something realized in brain activity. This view, however, largely fails to capture what consciousness is like according to how it shows itself to conscious beings. What this work proposes instead is that consciousness is a phenomenon that exists in and throughout the body. Apart from whether or not it involves intentionality and apart from whether or not it involves awareness of the self, consciousness is self-intimating, self-revealing, self-disclosing. Self-disclosure is the definitive phenomenolog |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Phenomenology and the physical reality of consciousness |
| ISBN: | 1-283-28044-2 |
| 9786613280442 | |
| 90-272-8417-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789646303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Advances in consciousness research ; ; v. 83.