The Bodily Nature of Consciousness : Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind / Kathleen V. Wider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wider, Kathleen Virginia, 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980. Etre et le neant.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this work, Kathleen V. Wider discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of consciousness in Being and Nothingness in light of recent work by analytic philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. She brings together phenomenological and scientific understandings of the nature of consciousness and argues that the two approaches can strengthen and suppport each other. Work on consciousness from two very different philosophical traditions-the continental and analytic-contributes to her explanation of the deep-seated intuition that all consciousness is self-consciousness.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Tradition

Chapter 2: The Force of the Claim

Chapter 3: An Internal Critique

Chapter 4: An External Critique

Chapter 5: Remembering the Body

Chapter 6: Biology and Phenomenology

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-202) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-1166-0

OCLC:

1080549472