Consciousness and Perceptual Experience : An Ecological and Phenomenological Approach Paperback / softback
by Thomas (University of California, Davis) Natsoulas
Paperback / softback
Description
This book describes and proposes an unusual integrative approach to human perception that qualifies as both an ecological and a phenomenological approach at the same time.
Thomas Natsoulas shows us how our consciousness - in three of six senses of the word that the book identifies - is involved in our activity of perceiving the one and only world that exists, which includes oneself as a proper part of it, and that all of us share together with the rest of life on earth.
He makes the case that our stream of consciousness - in the original Jamesian sense minus his mental/physical dualism - provides us with firsthand contact with the world, as opposed to our having such contact instead with theorist-posited items such as inner mental representations, internal pictures, or sense-image models, pure figments and virtual objects, none of which can have effects on our sensory receptors.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:472 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2015
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- ISBN:9781107562530
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:472 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107562530