عنوان

An Ontology of Consciousness

شابک

9401707154

شابک

9789401707152

شماره

b592081

عنوان اصلي

An Ontology of Consciousness

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

by Ralph Ellis.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Dordrecht

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Springer Netherlands

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1986

نام خاص و کميت اثر

(viii, 205 pages)

عنوان فروست

Martinus Nijhoff philosophy library, 18.

متن يادداشت

I --; Psychological Methods of Observing Consciousness --; II --; The Relation between Consciousness and Physiology --; III --; The Ego as Continuity of Conscious Functions --; IV --; Conscious Structures --; V --; The Directed Attention Progression.

متن يادداشت

The object of this study is to find a coherent theoretical approach to three problems which appear to interrelate in complex ways: (1) What is the ontological status of consciousness? (2) How can there be 'un conscious, ' 'prereflective' or 'self-alienated' consciousness? And (3) Is there a 'self' or 'ego' formed by means of the interrelation of more elementary states of consciousness? The motivation for combining such a diversity of difficult questions is that we often learn more by looking at interrelations of problems than we could by viewing them only in isola tion. The three questions posed here have emerged as especially prob lematic in the context of twentieth century philosophy. 1. The question of the ontological status of consciousness The question 'What is consciousness?' is one of the most perplexing in philosophy-so perplexing that many have been motivated to proceed as though consciousness did not exist. If William James was speaking rhetorically when he said "Consciousness does not exist," 1 many behaviorists of the recent past were not. 2 James meant only to imply that consciousness is not an independently existing soul-substance, along side physical substances. He did not mean that we do not really 'have' consciousness, and he did not provide final resolution for the problem of the causal interrelations between consciousness and the physical realm (e. g., our bodies). Many recent philosophers and psychologists, however, try to proceed as though these problems did not exist.

موضوع مستند نشده

Ontology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy (General)

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

by Ralph Ellis.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ralph Ellis

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y