View from Within - First-person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness (Paperback)

The study of conscious experience per se has not kept pace with the dramatic advances in PET, fMRI and other brain-scanning technologies. If anything, the standard approaches to examining the 'view from within' involve little more than cataloguing its readily accessible components. Thus the study of lived subjective experience is still at the level of Aristotelian science, leading to a widespread scepticism over the possibility of a truly scientific study of conscious experience.

Drawing on a wide range of approaches -- from phenomenology to meditation -- The View From Within examines the possibility of a disciplined approach to the study of subjective states. The focus is on the practical issues involved.

General

Imprint:	Imprint Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1999
First published:	September 1999
Editors:	Francisco J. Varela • Jonathan Shear
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-907845-25-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness > Conscious & unconscious Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-907845-25-8
Barcode:	9780907845256

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