nam a22 c 4500 aicr.83/91009006 nljbp 250625015223.1 cr ||||||||||| 241216s2011 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011026795 9789027284174 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp BF441 128/.2 23 JMR bicssc PSY008000 bisacsh Melnick, Arthur author Phenomenology and the Physical Reality of Consciousness Arthur Melnick Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 ©2011 1 online resource (vii, 262 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Advances in Consciousness Research 1381-589X 83 Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. The material nature of consciousness -- 2. The metaphysical and empirical status of consciousness -- 3. Consciousness and temporality -- 4. Qualia -- 5. Conscious sensation -- 6. Perceptual intentionality -- 7. Perception, the world, and the subject -- 8. The intentionality of thoughts -- 9. Thought, the world, and the thinking subject -- Summary The predominant positive view among philosophers and scientists alike is that consciousness is something realized in brain activity. This view, however, largely fails to capture what consciousness is like according to how it shows itself to conscious beings. What this work proposes instead is that consciousness is a phenomenon that exists in and throughout the body. Apart from whether or not it involves intentionality and apart from whether or not it involves awareness of the self, consciousness is self-intimating, self-revealing, self-disclosing. Self-disclosure is the definitive phenomenological character of consciousness in all its forms. Taking this stance as a point of departure, the book presents a specific account of what bodily field phenomenon consciousness is. In this way, the current stalemate in philosophy over the question of the physical reality of consciousness is broken. Series A Provided by publisher. Cognitive psychology Consciousness research Melnick, Arthur author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 9789027252203 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.83 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027284174