9788121510813 - Perspectives on Consciousness (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/Amita Chatterjee. 2. Perspectives on consciousness/J.N. Mohanty. 3. Introspectable consciousness: what philosophers can do about it/Hiranmoy Banerjee. 4. Thinking beings/Monima Chada. 5. Qualia domesticated/Roberto Casati. 6. The mind-mind problem/ Madhucchanda Sen. 7. Dreamless sleep: an analysis of the Advaita, Madhva and the Nyaya theories/Rupa Bandyopadhyay. 8. Inner sense and 'higher order consciousness': an Indian perspective/Sukharanjan Saha. 9. Perception, apperception and non-conceptual content/Arindam Chakrabarti. 10. Subject in post-positivist philosophy of science: some reflections on Thomas S. Kuhn/S.G. Kulkarni. 11. Perceiving temporal passage: an indicator of the nature of consciousness/Arthur Falk. 12. Perceiving objects and grasping them/Pierre Jacob. 13. An argument for the unity of consciousness/C.A. Tomy. References. Index. "Consciousness has remained an enigma even after close scientific scrutiny. Last two decades of the twentieth century, therefore, witnessed an explosion of interest in consciousness. Lack of consensus about the nature, definition and taxonomy of consciousness and lack of conviction about the adequacy of the reductive methodology have led scholars from different disciplines to study this multidimensional phenomenon from perspectives of their own. This volume is a collection of essays focusing on ontological, epistemological, semantic and methodological debates from philosophical and scientific perspectives. The issues dealt with here. 190 pp.