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Ontology of consciousness : percipient action
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Ontology of consciousness : percipient action

Author: Helmut Wautischer
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Helmut Wautischer
ISBN: 9780262232593 0262232596 9780262731843 0262731843
OCLC Number: 74492031
Notes: "A Bradford book."
Description: xxix, 638 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Robert A. F. Thurman -- Preface / Helmut Wautischer -- Introduction / Stanley Krippner -- pt. 1. Expanding the ontological matrix -- The emptying of ontology : the Tibetan tantric view / E Richard Sorenson -- The soul and communication between souls / Edith L. B. Turner -- Consciousness and reality in Nahua thought in the era of the conquest / James Maffie -- Pre-Columbian artistic expressions of indigenous concepts of soul in cross-cultural perspective / Armand J. Labbé -- Why one is not another : the brain-mind problem in Byzantine culture / Antoine Courban -- Soul and paideia : on the philosophical value of a dialectical relation / Michael Polemis -- pt. 2. Localizing subjective action -- Language and the evolution of the human mind / Hubert Markl -- Consciousness cannot be explained in terms of specific neuronal types and circumscribed neuronal networks / Mircea Steriade -- Consciousness as a relation between material bodies / Pavel B. Ivanov -- The priority of local observation and local interpretation in evaluating the "spirit hypothesis" / David J. Hufford -- Effects of relativistic motions in the brain and their physiological relevance / Mariela Szirko -- A palindrome : Conscious living creatures as instruments of nature; Nature as an instrument of conscious living creatures / Mario Crocco -- pt. 3. Experience of existence -- The evolution of consciousness in Sri Aurobindo's cosmopsychology / Matthijs Cornelissen -- An existentialist understanding of consciousness / Julia Watkin -- Toward an ontology of consciousness with Nicolai Hartmann and Hans Jonas / Karim Akerma -- Thinking like a stone : learning from the Zen rock garden / Graham Parkes -- The concept of person in African thought : a dialogue between African and Western philosophies / Heinz Kimmerle -- Of Indian god-men and miracle-makers : the case of Sathya Sai Baba / Erlendur Haraldsson -- Sentient intelligence : consciousness and knowing in the philosophy of Xavier Zubiri / Thomas B. Fowler -- Ontology of consciousness : reflections on human nature / Thomas Szasz -- Epilogue / Christian de Quincey.
Responsibility: edited by Helmut Wautischer.
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