书目名称 | The Feeling of Embodiment |
副标题 | A Case Study in Expl |
编辑 | Glenn Carruthers |
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概述 | Introduces a new account of consciousness.Offers an explanation of anomalous body representations.Explores the phenomenal qualities of the ‘feeling of embodiment‘ |
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描述 | This book proposes a novel and rigorous explanation of consciousness. It argues that the study of an aspect of our self-consciousness known as the ‘feeling of embodiment’ teaches us that there are two distinct phenomena to be targeted by an explanation of consciousness. First is an explanation of the phenomenal qualities – ‘what it is like‘ – of the experience; and second is the subject‘s awareness of those qualities. Glenn Carruthers explores the phenomenal qualities of the feeling of embodiment using the tools of quality spaces, as well as the subject‘s awareness of those qualities as a functionally emergent property of various kinds of processing of these spaces. Where much recent work on consciousness focuses on visual experience, this book rather draws evidence from the study of self-consciousness. .Carruthers argues that in light of recent methodological discoveries, awareness must be explained in terms of the organization of multiple cognitive processes. The book offers an explanation of anomalous body representations and, from that, poses a more general theory of consciousness. Ultimately this book creates a hybrid account of consciousness that explains phenomenology and aw |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | self-consciousness; embodiment; phenomenology; philosophy of mind; theory of consciousness; rubber hand i |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14167-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-14169-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-14167-7 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |