Modeling Consciousness Across the Disciplines
Published on 17. January 2000
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-0-7618-1523-5 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on a variety of scholarly perspectives, this extraordinary volume explores the nature of consciousness and highlights the importance of interdisciplinary dialogue for understanding the many facets of this subject. The contributors to this volume come from diverse fields within science and the humanities, including neuropsychology, art history, rhetoric, philosophy, history, and physical science. While revealing how the perspectives within a discipline guide researchers toward particular conclusions, this volume demonstrates the inherent difficulty in studying consciousness from a single point of view and exposes the conceptual inadequacies that arise when consciousness studies are localized within one discipline. This timely collection breathes life into a topic that has a long history of scholarly interest, providing researchers from diverse backgrounds with much to contemplate.
Reviews / Votes
The intent of the book is quite admirable and I found a number of the articles enlightening. * Consciousness, Literature and The Arts * . . .Modeling Consciousness Across the Disciplines makes a refreshing appearance, because its approach to consciousness spans a much wider field than is usual in the typical consciousness literature. * Journal of Consciousness Studies * . . .Modeling Consciousness Across the Disciplines makes a refreshing appearance, because its approach to consciousness spans a much wider field than is usual in the typical consciousness literature. * Journal of Consciousness Studies * The intent of the book is quite admirable and I found a number of the articles enlightening. * Consciousness, Literature and The Arts *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-1523-5 (9780761815235)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
J. Scott Jordan is Associate Professor of Psychology at Saint Xavier University in Chicago.
Content
chapter 1 Maximizing Consciousness Across the Disciplines: Mechanisms of Information Growth in General Education chapter 2 Modern Philosophical Culture, Education and the Fragmentation of Consciousness: Giambattista Vico and the Road Not Taken chapter 3 The Strange Attraction of Sciousness: William James on Consciousness chapter 4 Recasting Dewey's Critique of the Reflex-arc Concept via a Theory of Anticipatory Consciousness: Implications for Theories of Perception chapter 5 Perceiving and Measuring of Spatiotemporal Events chapter 6 A Physiologically Based System Theory of Consciousness chapter 7 Common Unconscious Dynamics Underlie Uncommon Conscious Effects: A Case Study in the Iterative Nature of Perception and Creation chapter 8 Is the Dialogue over the Nature of Consciousness Limited by Its Own Terms? chapter 9 One Model, Diverse Manifestations: A Paradigm of Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Art chapter 10 Consciousness, Communities and the Brain: Toward an Ontology of Being chapter 11 "Not-Self" Consciousness and the Aniconic in Early Buddhism chapter 12 Many Realisms chapter 13 Liberal Education as a Reflection of Our Assumptions Regarding Truth and Consciousness: Time for an Integrative Philosophy chapter 14 Index