Consciousness and Perceptual Experience: An Ecological and Phenomenological Approach
Thomas Natsoulas
This book describes and proposes an unusual integrative approach to human perception that qualifies as both an ecological and a phenomenological approach at the same time. Thomas Natsoulas shows us how our consciousness - in three of six senses of the word that the book identifies - is involved in our activity of perceiving the one and only world that exists, which includes oneself as a proper part of it, and that all of us share together with the rest of life on earth. He makes the case that our stream of consciousness - in the original Jamesian sense minus his mental/physical dualism - provides us with firsthand contact with the world, as opposed to our having such contact instead with theorist-posited items such as inner mental representations, internal pictures, or sense-image models, pure figments and virtual objects, none of which can have effects on our sensory receptors.
年:
2013
出版社:
Cambridge University Press
语言:
english
页:
468
ISBN 10:
1107004519
ISBN 13:
9781107004511
文件:
PDF, 1.86 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013