The View from Within: First-person Approaches to the Study of ConsciousnessJonathan Shear, Francisco J. Varela Imprint Academic, 1999 - 313 من الصفحات 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. |
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Editors Introduction | 1 |
Pierre Vermersch Introspection as Practice | 17 |
Claire PetitmenginPeugeot The Intuitive Experience | 43 |
Natalie Depraz The Phenomenological Reduction as Praxis | 95 |
Francisco J Varela PresentTime Consciousness | 111 |
Jean Naudin et al The Use of the Husserlian Reduction | 155 |
Jonathan Shear and Ron Jevning | 189 |
James H Austin Six Points to Ponder | 213 |
William Lyons On the Metaphysics of Introspection | 244 |
Eduard Marbach Building Materials for the Explanatory Bridge | 252 |
Ian Owen and Neil Morris The Husserlian Phenomenology of Consciousness | 269 |
JeanFrançois Richard Object Limits and Function of Consciousness | 276 |
Rachel Henley Distinguishing Insight from Intuition | 287 |
Schwartz Mental Force and the Advertence of Bare Attention | 293 |
Max Velmans Intersubjective Science | 299 |
Francisco J Varela and Jonathan Shear Editors Rejoinder to the Debate | 307 |
David Galin Separating Firstpersonness From the Other Problems | 222 |
Shaun Gallagher A Cognitive Way to the Transcendental Reduction | 230 |
William S Haney II Pure Consciousness and Cultural Studies | 238 |
About Authors 314 | |