Microgenetic Theory and Process Thought
Published on 6. May 2015
286 pages
978-1-84540-813-8 (ISBN)
Description
The chapters in this volume attempt to establish some foundational principles of a theory of the mind/brain grounded in evolutionary and process theory. From this standpoint, the book discusses some main problems in philosophical psychology, including the nature and origins of the mind/brain state, experience and consciousness, feeling, subjective time and free will. The approach - that of microgenesis - holds that formative phases in the generation of the mental state are the primary focus of explanation, not the assumed properties of logical solids. For microgenesis, the process leading to a conscious end point is, together with the final content, part of an epochal state, the outcome of which, an act, object or word, incorporates earlier segments of that series, such as value, meaning and belief.
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Jason W. Brown
Microgenetic Theory and Process Thought
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front matter
- Title page
- Publisher information
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Body matter
- Chapter 1. The Mind/Brain State: Nature
- Chapter 2. The Mind/Brain State: Origins
- Chapter 3. Experience
- Chapter 4. What is Consciousness?
- Chapter 5. Feeling
- Chapter 6. Thinking
- Chapter 7. Novelty and Causation
- Chapter 8. Certainty and Conviction
- Chapter 9. Psychology of Free Will
- Theoretical Note 1. Probability and Potential
- Theoretical Note 2. On Truth
- Theoretical Note 3. On the Direction of Time
- Theoretical Note 4. Origins of Religious Belief
- Back matter
- References
