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Recent work on consciousness has featured a number of debates on the existence and character of controversial types of phenomenal experience. Such debates bring up a more general question: how many types of irreducible phenomenology must we posit to describe the stream of consciousness? This book attempts an answer.
List of contents
- Introduction: Phenomenal Primitives
- 1. Cognitive Phenomenology
- 2. Conative Phenomenology
- 3. The Phenomenology of Entertaining
- 4. Emotional Phenomenology
- 5. Moral Phenomenology
- 6. Conclusion: The Structure of the Phenomenal Realm
- Appendix. The Phenomenology of Freedom
- References
- Index
About the author
Uriah Kriegel is a research director at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris. He is the author of Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory (OUP, 2011) and The Sources of Intentionality (OUP, 2011), as well as the editor of a dozen collections.
Summary
Recent work on consciousness has featured a number of debates on the existence and character of controversial types of phenomenal experience. Such debates bring up a more general question: how many types of irreducible phenomenology must we posit to describe the stream of consciousness? This book attempts an answer.
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^...one can summarize the book by saying that it offers readers-in particular philosophers working on the philosophy of mind, consciousness studies, phenomenology, and agency theory-the resources required to develop a richly textured account of humans' phenomenal experiences...Highly recommended.
