The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object
Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Altered states of consciousness
ISBN :
The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object
Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Altered states of consciousness
ISBN : 9780517549490
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Franklin Merrell-Wolff's Experience and Philosophy
Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791419632
Book Description
Here is an account of the enlightenment experience and its consequences written by a trained philosopher and mathematician who is also a master of English prose. Merrell-Wolff experienced enlightenment, became established in the state, and wrote clearly about the value and nature of the knowledge he attained. This is a record of transformation in consciousness written during the actual process itself, supplying an unusually intimate view. The author faces the epistemological problem directly--the problem of demonstrating the reality and value of knowledge springing from mystical roots. He gives serious attention to the philosophical and psychological criticism, writing with an eye to the pitfalls indicated by such criticism. He did not write only for those who believe easily.
The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object; *****MISSING******
Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher :
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Consciousness
ISBN :
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The Nature of Consciousness
Author : Mark Rowlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2001-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 113943098X
Book Description
In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. The most significant feature of consciousness is its dual nature: consciousness can be both the directing of awareness and that upon which awareness is directed. Rowlands offers a clear and philosophically insightful discussion of the main positions in this fast-moving debate, and argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology and cognitive science.
Introceptionalism
Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Consciousness
ISBN :
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Consciousness and Object
Author : Riccardo Manzotti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9027265097
Book Description
What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked “What is a man?” and replied that a man is “a certain sort of material object”. This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditional mind-brain identity theory is set aside, and a mind-object identity theory is proposed in its place: to be conscious of an object is simply to be made of that object. Consciousness is physical but not neural. This groundbreaking hypothesis is supported by recent empirical findings in both perception and neuroscience, and is herein tested against a series of objections of both conceptual and empirical nature: the traditional mind-brain identity arguments from illusion, hallucinations, dreams, and mental imagery. The theory is then compared with existing externalist approaches including disjunctivism, realism, embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind. Can experience and objects be one and the same?
Consciousness and Its Objects
Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019926760X
Book Description
Colin McGinn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublished. He extends and deepens his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic and epistemologically impenetrable. He also investigates the basis of our knowledge that there is a mind-body problem, and the bearing of this on attempted solutions.McGinn goes on to discuss the status of first-person authority, the possibility of atomism with respect to consciousness, extreme dualism, and the role of non-existent objects in constituting intentionality. He argues that traditional claims about our knowledge of our own mind and of the external world can be inverted; that atomism about the conscious mind might turn out to be true; that dualism is more credible the more extreme it is; and that all intentionality involves non-existentobjects. These are all surprising positions, but he contends that what the philosophy of mind needs now is 'methodological radicalism' - a willingness to consider new and seemingly extravagant ideas.
Transformations in Consciousness
Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 1995-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438412894
Book Description
This book presents a philosophy that includes the enlightenment experience--that embraces the wider ranges opened by the door of realization--while not excluding the contents of the more common experience. A realization in consciousness that finds no place or adequate recognition in philosophical systems proves the inadequacy of those systems. The author first briefly surveys the principal schools of modern Western philosophy in order to show how they fall short. He then presents his philosophy grounded on the authority of direct realization resulting from a transformation in consciousness.
Heidegger and the Problem of Consciousness
Author : Nancy J. Holland
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253035988
Book Description
Nancy J. Holland turns to the thought of Martin Heidegger to help understand an age-old philosophical question: Is there a split between the body and the mind? Arguing against philosophical positions that define human consciousness as an overarching phenomenon or reduce it to the brain or physicality, Holland contends that consciousness is relational and it is this relationship that allows us to inhabit and negotiate in the world. Holland forwards a complex and nuanced reading of Heidegger as she focuses on consciousness, being, and what might constitute the animal or, more broadly, other-than-human world. Holland engages with the depth and breadth of Heidegger's work as she opens space for a discussion about the uniqueness of human consciousness.
