Ontology of consciousness : percipient action /

Ontology of consciousness : percipient action /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
©2008
Description:1 online resource (xxix, 638 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Consciousness.
Philosophical anthropology.
Culture -- Philosophy.
Neuropsychology -- Philosophy.
Mind and body.
Consciousness.
Culture -- Philosophy.
Mind and body.
Neuropsychology -- Philosophy.
Philosophical anthropology.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11980780
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Other authors / contributors:Wautischer, Helmut.
ISBN:9780262316347
026231634X
9780262232593
0262232596
9780262731843
0262731843
Notes:"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Scholars from many different disciplines examine consciousness through the lens of intellectual approaches and cultures ranging from cosmology research and cell biophysics laboratories to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism in a volume that extends consciousness studies beyond the limits of current neuroscience research.
Other form:Print version: Ontology of consciousness. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 0262232596
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Robert A.F. Thurman
  • Preface / Helmut Wautischer
  • Introduction / Stanley Krippner
  • pt. 1. Expanding the ontological matrix. The emptying of ontology : the Tibetan tantric view / E. Richard Sorenson
  • The soul and communication between souls / Edith L.B. Turner
  • Consciousness and reality in Nahua thought in the era of the conquest / James Maffie
  • Pre-Columbian artistic expressions of indigenous concepts of soul in cross-cultural perspective / Armand J. Labbé
  • Why one is not another : the brain-mind problem in Byzantine culture / Antoine Courban
  • Soul and paideia : on the philosophical value of a dialectical relation / Michael Polemis
  • pt. 2. Localizing subjective action. Language and the evolution of the human mind / Hubert Markl
  • Consciousness cannot be explained in terms of specific neuronal types and circumscribed neuronal networks / Mircea Steriade
  • Consciousness as a relation between material bodies / Pavel B. Ivanov
  • The priority of local observation and local interpretation in evaluating the "spirit hypothesis" / David J. Hufford
  • Effects of relativistic motions in the brain and their physiological relevance / Mariela Szirko
  • A palindrome : Conscious living creatures as instruments of nature; Nature as an instrument of conscious living creatures / Mario Crocco
  • pt. 3. Experience of existence. The evolution of consciousness in Sri Aurobindo's cosmopsychology / Matthijs Cornelissen
  • An existentialist understanding of consciousness / Julia Watkin
  • Toward an ontology of consciousness with Nicolai Hartmann and Hans Jonas / Karim Akerma
  • Thinking like a stone : learning from the Zen rock garden / Graham Parkes
  • The concept of person in African thought : a dialogue between African and Western philosophies / Heinz Kimmerle
  • Of Indian god-men and miracle-makers : the case of Sathya Sai Baba / Erlendur Haraldsson
  • Sentient intelligence : consciousness and knowing in the philosophy of Xavier Zubiri / Thomas B. Fowler
  • Ontology of consciousness : reflections on human nature / Thomas Szasz
  • Epilogue / Christian de Quincey.

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