Intersensory Origins of Mind : A Revisit to Emergent Evolution

by Shipley, Thorne

• ISBN13: 9780415120036
• ISBN10: 0415120039
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

InIntersensory Origins of Mind,Thorne Shipley proposes a fundamental revision of the core of modern psychology. With a serious respect for the history of sicence, Shipley shows the profound limits of linear, mechanistic and niavely reductionists accounts of the mind, and proposes instead a sensory rationalist position which builds on the principles of emergent evolution. Combining several diverse perspectives, from the physiological optics of Helmholtz, the perceptual science of Kohler, the visual electrophysiology of Hubel/ Wiesel to the theories of Dewey, Polanyi, Cassirer, Chomsky and Piaget,Intersensory Origins of Mindis an ambitious humanistic synthesis of sensory science. It will need to be read by anyone with a serious interst in philosophical psychology, the nature of human consciousness and the origin of mind.

Author Biography

Thorne Shipley is Emeritus Professor in Vision Sciences, Psychology and Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Miami Medical School.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Some Starting Points for a New Humanistic Psychology	p. 1
Many Valid Approaches to Mind	p. 12
Introduction to the Natural History of Mind	p. 42
The Perception of Routes, Methods, and Linear Arguments	p. 69
Time as Quality from Routes as Durations	p. 93
The Multimodality of Space-Quality	p. 108
Ideas: Another Complex Quality of Experience	p. 118
Ideas of Objects Vs. Ideas of Ideas	p. 138
Specific Contribution of the Human Senses to Cognitive Function	p. 157
The Mind Is like A...	p. 176
Key Concepts in Theoretical Neurology	p. 192
The Origin of Free Will	p. 206
The Neural Foundations of Accelerated Self-Awareness	p. 220
Crucial Concepts for Pedagogy and Child Development	p. 222
Afterword	p. 226
Appendix: A Short Listing of Some Influential Works	p. 243
Index	p. 246
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