Consciousness and Perceptual Experience - An Ecological and Phenomenological Approach

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Natsoulas is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. Klappentext An unusual study of human perceiving from the perspective of an ecological psychology that explicitly incorporates a phenomenology of consciousness. Zusammenfassung Thomas Natsoulas argues that ecological psychology - which proposes that we perceive the one and only existing world itself! including ourselves in it - can incorporate our consciousness stream! our immediate awareness thereof and the normal waking state! which! he argues! is the best general psychosomatic state in enabling perceiving. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: concepts of consciousness; 2. Skepticism regarding consciousness; 3. The normal waking state; 4. Contact with the world; 5. Environment; 6. The life-world; 7. Perceptual content; 8. Experiential presence; 9. Viewing; 10. Inner awareness; 11. Conclusion: against virtual objects.

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• Authors: Thomas Natsoulas, Thomas (University of California Natsoulas, Natsoulas Thomas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107562530
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56253-0
• No. of pages: 472
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Perception, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition and cognitive psychology