Consciousness and Perceptual Experience
An Ecological and Phenomenological Approach
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- Author: Thomas Natsoulas, University of California, Davis
- Date Published: October 2015
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107562530
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This book describes and proposes an unusual integrative approach to human perception that qualifies as both an ecological and a phenomenological approach at the same time. Thomas Natsoulas shows us how our consciousness - in three of six senses of the word that the book identifies - is involved in our activity of perceiving the one and only world that exists, which includes oneself as a proper part of it, and that all of us share together with the rest of life on earth. He makes the case that our stream of consciousness - in the original Jamesian sense minus his mental/physical dualism - provides us with firsthand contact with the world, as opposed to our having such contact instead with theorist-posited items such as inner mental representations, internal pictures, or sense-image models, pure figments and virtual objects, none of which can have effects on our sensory receptors.
Read more- Studies the nature of conscious experience and its role in perception
- Proposes an integrative approach to perceiving that is, unusually, both an ecological and a phenomenological approach
- Shows how consciousness is involved in our activity of perceiving and argues that our stream of consciousness provides us with firsthand contact with the surrounding world itself
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- Date Published: October 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107562530
- length: 472 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: concepts of consciousness
2. Skepticism regarding consciousness
3. The normal waking state
4. Contact with the world
5. Environment
6. The life-world
7. Perceptual content
8. Experiential presence
9. Viewing
10. Inner awareness
11. Conclusion: against virtual objects.
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