Stream of consciousness : unity and continuity in conscious experience

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Stream of consciousness : unity and continuity in conscious experience

Barry Dainton

(International library of philosophy)

Routledge, 2006

Rev. pbk. ed

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-269) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Barry Dainton's controversial and highly original Stream of Consciousness aroused considerable interest when it was first published. This new paperback edition includes a postscript in which Dainton responds to some of his critics. Despite the recent upsurge of interest in consciousness, most of this has been focused on the relationship between consciousness and the brain. This has meant that significant and intriguing questions concerning the fundamental characteristics of consciousness itself have not received the attention they deserve. Stream of Consciousness is devoted to these questions by presenting a systematic, phenomenological inquiry into the most general features of conscious life: the nature of awareness, introspection, phenomenal space and time-consciousness. Barry Dainton shows us that a stream of consciousness is not a mosiac of discrete fragments of experience, but rather an interconnected flowing whole. This compelling discussion about the structure of consciousness will interest anyone concerned with current debates on consciousness in philosophy, psychology and neuroscience.

Table of Contents

List of figures, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Unity, introspection and awareness, 3 Phenomenal space, 4 Transitivity, 5 Phenomenal time: problems and principles, 6 Broad and Husserl, 7 The overlap model, 8 Phenomenal interdependence, 9 The ramifications of co-consciousness, Notes, Bibliography, Index

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  • NCID
    BA79963949
  • ISBN
    • 0415379296
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 275 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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