View from Within: First-Person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness / Edition 1

View from Within: First-Person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0907845258
ISBN-13:
9780907845256
Pub. Date:
09/01/1999
Publisher:
Imprint Academic (IPS)
ISBN-10:
0907845258
ISBN-13:
9780907845256
Pub. Date:
09/01/1999
Publisher:
Imprint Academic (IPS)
View from Within: First-Person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness / Edition 1

View from Within: First-Person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness / Edition 1

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Overview

Over the last decade there has been a resurgence of interest in the scientific study of consciousness an area that has been largely ignored since the time of William James. This renaissance has primarily been stimulated by developments in PET, fMRI and other brain-scanning technology that enable scientists to pinpoint the neural correlates of conscious experience with ever-increasing accuracy. However, the study of conscious experience itself has not kept pace with these advances in third-person methodologies. If anything, the standard approaches to examining the view from within involve little more than cataloging its readily accessible components. Thus the study of lived subjective experience is still at the level of Aristotelian science. This has led many to deny that there could possibly be such a thing as a truly scientific study of conscious experience, or at least to ask: can one be objective about the subjective? Drawing on a wide range of approaches from phenomenology to meditation THE VIEW FROM WITHIN examines the possibility of a disciplined approach to the study of subjective states. The focus is on the practical issues involved."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780907845256
Publisher: Imprint Academic (IPS)
Publication date: 09/01/1999
Series: Consciousness Studies
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 322
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Francisco Varela is Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology, CREA, at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

Shear is Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University and Managing Editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies.

What People are Saying About This

David Chalmers

. . . an important collection addressing what is arguably the greatest challenge now facing the science of consciousness.
—author of The Conscious Mind (OUP, 1996)

Ken Wilber

. . . a brilliant presentation of the need to include first-person accounts in a science of consciousness.
—author of The Eye of Spirit (Shambhala, 1997)

John Searle

. . . a great book series . . . We don't know how [consciousness] works and we need to try all kinds of different ideas.
—author of The Rediscovery of the Mind (MIT Press, 1992)

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