Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness
New methodologies and maps
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2000
XII, 381 pages
978-90-272-9999-4 (ISBN)
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How can one investigate phenomenal consciousness? As in other areas of science, the investigation of consciousness aims for a more precise knowledge of its phenomena, and the discovery of general truths about their nature. This requires the development of appropriate first-person, second-person and third-person methods. This book introduces some of the creative ways in which these methods can be applied to different purposes, e.g. to understanding the relation of consciousness to brain, to examining or changing consciousness as such, and to understanding the way consciousness is influenced by social, clinical and therapeutic contexts. To clarify the strengths and weaknesses of different methods and to demonstrate the interplay of methodology and epistemology, the book also suggests a number of "maps" of the consciousness studies terrain that place different approaches to the study of consciousness into a broader, interdisciplinary context.
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- Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. An Introduction to Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness
- PART 1A: Combining First- and Third-Person Methods
- Chapter 2. Currrent Methods of Investigation in Neuroscience
- Chapter 3. The Experimental Investigation of Unconscious Conflict, Unconscious Affect, and Unconscious Signal Anxiety
- Chapter 4. A Psychoanalytic Contribution to Contemporary Neuroscience
- PART 1B: Re-examining the Scope and Limits of First-Person Methods
- Chapter 5. Phenomenological Approaches to the Study of Conscious Awareness
- Chapter 6. The Gesture of Awareness: An account of its structural dynamics
- PART 1C: Changing Conscious Experience
- Chapter 7. Transforming Conscious Experience
- Chapter 8. Clinical Implications of an Intersubjective Science
- Chapter 9. The Nature and Transformation of Consciousness in Eastern and Western Psycho-Spiritual Traditions
- PART 2: Maps of Consciousness Studies
- Chapter 10. Modern Science and the Mind
- Chapter 11. Social Construction and Consciousness
- Chapter 12. Investigating Altered States on Their Own Terms: State-Specific Sciences
- Chapter 13. Methods are a Message
- Chapter 14. An Integral Approach to Consciousness Research
- Chapter 15. A Psychologist's Map of Consciousness Studies
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- the series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH
