Author: Rocco J. Gennaro
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: consciousness, advances, research, theory, thought, higher, order
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1995-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027251266
ISBN-13: 9789027251268

This text is part of a series that aims to provide a forum for scholars who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Its orientation is towards developing interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences.

Authors:Robert Pepperell, Michael Punt,
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV.
Keywords: consciousness, literature, arts, amp, mind, cinema, screen, world
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 9042020164
ISBN-13: 9789042020160

This collection of essays is driven by the question of how we know what we know, and in particular how we can be certain about something even when we know it is an illusion. The contention of the book is that this age-old question has acquired a new urgency as certain trends in science, technology and ideas have taken the discussion of consciousness out of the philosophy department and deposited it in the world at large. As a consequence, a body of literature from many fields has produced its own sets of concerns and methods under the rubric of Consciousness Studies. Each contribution in this

Author: William S. Haney II
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: consciousness, literature, arts, amp, posthuman, cyberculture, science, fiction, cyborgs
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 9042019484
ISBN-13: 9789042019485

Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind’s capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements. Posthumanism envisions a biology/machine symbiosis that will promote this extension, arguably at the expense of the natural tendency of the mind to

Author: John Danvers
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: consciousness, literature, arts, amp, poetry, art, paradox, indeterminacy, picturing, mind
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-02-20
List price: $93.00
ISBN-10: 9042018097
ISBN-13: 9789042018099

In this book the author takes an unusual multi-disciplinary approach to debates about contemporary art and poetry, ideas about the mind and its representations, and theories of knowledge and being. Arts practices are considered as enactments of mind and as transformative modes of consciousness. Ideas drawn from poetics, philosophy and consciousness studies are used to illuminate the conceptual and aesthetic frameworks of a diverse array of visual artists. Themes explored include: the interconnectedness of existence; art as a way of interrogating appearances; identity and otherness; art and the

Author: Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: consciousness, vol, research, advances, locating
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $102.00
ISBN-10: 1556191847
ISBN-13: 9781556191848

This volume is part of a series that provide a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Topics covered include: naturalism about subjective experience; the limits of theory; and conscious perception and semantic memory.

Author: Naoyuki Osaka
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: consciousness, research, advances, neural, basis
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027251789
ISBN-13: 9789027251787

Author: Philip Van Loocke
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: consciousness, research, advances, physical, nature
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 2001-06-30
List price: $85.95
ISBN-10: 9027251495
ISBN-13: 9789027251497

This title addresses the fundamental problems of consciousness. It touches on the problem of the relation between physics and consciousness. Quantum mechanical approaches to consciousness, and quantum holographical approaches are considered.