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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ontology of consciousness. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008 (OCoLC)655413090 |
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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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"These percipient twenty essays are like detonating explosives, profoundly disturbing to various intellectual universes, and highly appropriate to be published by an institution famed for pushing frontiers in science and technology. They connect the dots between the seen and unseen worlds. They require Kierkegaardian leaps of faith. They stretch referential meaning in order to understand human powers of wordless communication that we share with other animals. The essayists have playfully created a new Metaphysical Club open to all with courage to explore." --Wilton S. Dillon, Senior Scholar Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution "This collection provides a rich tableau of research on the nature of consciousness by twenty internationally recognized scholars and researchers who draw on perspectives from archaic traditions in religion and culture to contemporary neuroscience to the testimony of personal experience. Masterfully edited by Helmut Wautischer, Ontology of Consciousness answers questions such as: what kind of being is the being to which we refer as consciousness? How long have humans been perplexed by the awareness of being? Are the questions of being and consciousness one and the same?" --Alan M. Olson, Professor, Philosophy of Religion, Boston University "An essential source book for the study of consciousness and foundations of experience. This book provides comprehensive analyses of diverse philosophical, religious, anthropological, and scientific approaches to human experience. Scholars who study consciousness, whether they be behavioral, social or biological scientists, or just educated readers, will find in this volume a store of data necessary for the pursuit of this subject." --Douglass Price-Williams, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles "One does not realize how painfully narrow is our dataset concerning 'conscious phenomena' until one works one's way through this book. The astounding spectrum of human beliefs about and experiences of consciousness is here carefully organized, analyzed, and categorized. Many chapters, even as they evoke skepticism, make for spellbinding reading. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, this text will be superb for classroom use and could significantly influence the philosophy of mind--if this field is willing to expand the range of its data in the ways here suggested." --Philip Clayton, Ingraham Professor, Claremont School of Theology, and author of Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness Read more...
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