The Concept of Consciousness (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Seeley, Sir Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440073740 ISBN 13 : 9781440073748

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the definition of consciousness and its link to mind and body. This book presents a clear, deductive approach to understanding consciousness through a practical, motor-based view rooted in physiology and psychology. It argues that the nervous system functions as a mechanism of response, offering a tight, evidence-informed framework for thinking about mind without metaphysical speculation.

Holt guides readers through key ideas about how conscious experience arises from neutral or “hemq” processes, the role of cross-sections in understanding parts of objects, and the way physiological psychology frames the study of sensation, perception, and action. The discussion traces how mind is connected to the body and why psychology should be grounded in observable responses while still acknowledging the conscious manifold we seek to describe.

• Foundational concepts for thinking about consciousness, mind, and body


• The motor-theory approach and its implications for physiology


• How cross-sections and neutral entities illuminate the structure of objects and experiences


• A practical view of psychology as the science of response

Ideal for readers of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and students seeking a rigorous, empirically informed perspective on consciousness.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Pragmatically speaking, one seems to distinguish two kinds of philosophers. There are on the one hand those who, looking on the world about them, the folded earth and the brave canopy of heaven, desire to account for all this and to see behind the maddening variety that unity which something prompts them to believe is there. So sane and wholesome seems this desire, so proper as a philosophic aim, that one could wish all lovers of knowledge passionately possessed of it. But on the other hand one beholds the high pontiffs of philosophy, builders of massive systems, constructing their edifices not as a frugally devised and modest housing for the data of experience, to hold them com pact and demonstrate their kinship, but rather as a kind of marble temple shining on a hill pompous monuments dedicated ostensibly to Academe and Dialectica but with the pontiffs name engraved not small upon the portal.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440073740
• ISBN 13: 9781440073748
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible