Consciousness (eBook)

From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy

Sara Heinämaa, Vili Lähteenmäki, Pauliina Remes (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 2007
XII, 366 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-6082-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection represents the first historical survey focusing on the notion of consciousness. It approaches consciousness through its constitutive aspects, such as subjectivity, reflexivity, intentionality and selfhood. Covering discussions from ancient philosophy all the way to contemporary debates, the book enriches current systematic debates by uncovering historical roots of the notion of consciousness.

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SARA HEINAMAA,VILI LAHTEENMAKI AND PAULIINA REMES This book is about consciousness. It illuminates the concept in its complexity and richness, capturing its theoretical and philosophical significance as well as its problematic aspects. By taking a new look into the history of concepts, the collection questions several deep-seated assumptions about consciousness - assumptions both thematic and methodological. It argues that, even though our predecessors did not formulate their philosophical queries in terms of consciousness, they have much to offer to our current disputes concerning its central features, such as reflexivity, subjectivity and aboutness, as well as related themes, from selfhood to attention and embodiment. At the same time, the collection demonstrates that consciousness is not just an issue in the p- losophy of mind, but is bound to ontology, epistemology and moral theory. We can find premodern and early modern concepts and arguments that are interesting and even crucialto our own philosophical concerns, but we should not assume that these belong or contribute to any theory of mind isolated from metaphysical and ethical discussions: an argument that for us provides insightful descriptions of perception or self-awareness might to its writer have meant not just a theoretization of the soul or the mind, but also, and perhaps more importantly, a contribution to ethics or ontology.

Inhalt

Introduction.- PART I: ANCIENT AND ARABIC PHILOSOPHY.- 1. On Plato’s Lack of Consciousness; Amber Carpenter.- 2. The Problem of Consciousness in Aristotle’s Psychology; Juha Sihvola.- 3. Ownness of Conscious Experience in Ancient Philosophy; Pauliina Remes.- 4. Sense-Perception and Self-Awareness: Before and After Avicenna; Jari Kaukua and Taneli Kukkonen.- PART II: MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY AND EARLY MODERN THOUGHT.- 5. Intentional Presence: The Notion of Presentialitas in the 14th Century; Joël Biard.- 6. The Structure of Self-Consciousness: A 14th-Century Debate; Mikko Yrjönsuuri.- 7. Augustine and Descartes on the Function of Attention in Perceptual Awareness; Deborah Brown.- 8. Orders of Consciousness and Forms of Reflexivity in Descartes; Vili Lähteenmäki.- 9. The Status of Consciousness in Spinoza’s Concept of Mind; Jon Miller.- PART III: FROM KANT TO CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSIONS.- 10. Human Consciousness and its Transcendental Conditions: Kant’s Anti-Cartesian Revolt; Kenneth R. Westphal.- 11. The Living Consciousness of the German Idealists; Susanna Lindberg.- 12. The Heidelberg School and the Limits of Reflection; Dan Zahavi.- 13. Contemporary Naturalism and the Concept of Consciousness; Neil Manson.- 14. Selfhood, Consciousness, and Embodiment: A Husserlian Approach; Sara Heinämaa.- BIBLIOGRAPHY.- INDEX.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.7.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 366 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Ancient Philosophy • Aristotle • Avicenna • Concept • Consciousness • Edmund Husserl • History of Philosophy • intentionality • Kant • Medieval Philosophy • Plato • Psychology • reflexivity • Spinoza • Subjectivity
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-6082-3 / 1402060823
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-6082-3 / 9781402060823