Investigating phenomenal consciousness : new methodologies and maps / edited by Max Velmans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Velmans, Max, 1942-

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 13.

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenological psychology.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.(Series A).

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612254987

9780585461687

0585461686

9789027299994

9027299994

9781282254985

1282254987

OCLC:

70727838