Modeling Consciousness Across the Discipline

by Jordan, J. Scott

• ISBN13: 9780761815235
• ISBN10: 0761815236
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Amer

Summary

Drawing on a variety of scholarly perspectives, this extraordinary volume explores the nature of consciousness and highlights the importance of interdisciplinary dialogue for understanding the many facets of this subject. The contributors to this volume come from diverse fields within science and the humanities, including neuropsychology, art history, rhetoric, philosophy, history, and physical science. While revealing how the perspectives within a discipline guide researchers toward particular conclusions, this volume demonstrates the inherent difficulty in studying consciousness from a single point of view and exposes the conceptual inadequacies that arise when consciousness studies are localized within one discipline. This timely collection breathes life into a topic that has a long history of scholarly interest, providing researchers from diverse backgrounds with much to contemplate.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
Explicit Models of Consciousness
Maximizing Consciousness Across the Disciplines: Mechanisms of Information Growth in General Education	3	(24)
Larry R. Vandervert
Modern Philosophical Culture, Education and the Fragmentation of Consciousness: Giambattista Vico and the Road Not Taken	27	(16)
E. Paul Colella
The Strange Attraction of Sciousness: William James on Consciousness	43	(22)
Andrew Bailey
Recasting Dewey's Critique of the Reflex-arc Concept via a Theory of Anticipatory Consciousness; Implications for Theories of Perception	65	(30)
J. Scott Jordan
Perceiving and Measuring of Spatiotemporal Events	95	(18)
Jochen Musseler
A Physiologically Based System Theory of Consciousness	113	(66)
L. Andrew Coward
Common Unconscious Dynamics Underlie Uncommon Conscious Effects: A Case Study in the Iterative Nature of Perception and Creation	179	(42)
Cees van Leeuwen
Ilse Verstijnen
Paul Hekkert
Implicit Models of Consciousness
Is the Dialogue over the Nature of Consciousness Limited by Its Own Terms?	221	(10)
Lawrence Souder
One Model, Diverse Manifestations: A Paradigm of Consciousness in Twentieth-century Art	231	(12)
Charlotte Stokes
Consciousness, Communities and the Brain: Toward an Ontology of Being	243	(26)
Bruce K. Kirchoff
``Not-Self'' Consciousness and the Aniconic in Early Buddhism	269	(12)
Michael D. Rabe
Many Realisms	281	(26)
Harald Atmanspacher
Frederick Kronz
Liberal Education as a Reflection of Our Assumptions Regarding Truth and Consciousness: Time for an Integrative Philosophy	307	(26)
J. Scott Jordan
Larry R. Vandervert
Index	333	(6)
About the Authors	339