Consciousness in Interaction
The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness
Editor
Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy. It revolves around the idea that consciousness emerges from, and impacts on, our skilled interactions with the natural and social context. Section one discusses how phenomenal consciousness and subjective selfhood are grounded on natural and social interactions, and what role brain activity plays in these phenomena. Section two analyzes how interactions with external objects and other human beings shape our understanding of ourselves, and how consciousness changes social interaction, self-control and emotions. Section three provides historical depth to the volume, by tracing the roots of the contemporary notion of consciousness in early modern philosophy. The book offers interdisciplinary insight on a variety of key topics in consciousness research: as such, it is of particular interest for researchers from philosophy of mind, phenomenology, cognitive and social sciences, and humanities.
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 86] 2012. xix, 403 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction: What does it mean to study consciousness in interaction?Fabio Paglieri | pp. ix–xx
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Section 1. Phenomenal consciousness: Brain, action and interaction
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What reason could there be to believe in pre-reflective bodily self-consciousness?Adrian Alsmith | pp. 1–18
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Do sensory substitution devices extend the conscious mind?Julian Kiverstein and Mirko Farina | pp. 19–40
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The extended mind and the boundaries of perception and actionNivedita Gangopadhyay | pp. 41–58
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Showtime at the Cartesian Theater? Vehicle externalism and dynamical explanationsMichael Madary | pp. 59–72
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Is the function of consciousness to act as an interface?Bryony Pierce | pp. 73–88
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Es are good: Cognition as enacted, embodied, embedded, affective and extendedDave Ward and Mog Stapleton | pp. 89–104
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Section 2. Social cognition, self-control, artifacts and emotions: The role of consciousness
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Mindshaping and the intentional control of the mindTillmann Vierkant and Andreas Paraskevaides | pp. 105–124
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“My mind”: Reflexive sociality and its cognitive toolsCristiano Castelfranchi | pp. 125–150
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Coherence of conduct and the self-imageMaria Miceli and Cristiano Castelfranchi | pp. 151–178
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Ulysses’ will: Self-control, external constraints, and gamesFabio Paglieri | pp. 179–206
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Bodily intentionality and social affordances in contextErik Rietveld | pp. 207–226
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Seeing with the handsCorrado Sinigaglia | pp. 227–238
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Recognition of emotion in othersNico H. Frijda | pp. 239–258
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The Paratactic Account of propositional attitude ascriptionFinn Spicer | pp. 259–286
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Section 3. Historical perspectives on consciousness in interaction
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From sensation to consciousness: Suggestions in modern philosophyMonica Riccio | pp. 287–300
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Theories of consciousness in early-modern philosophyRoberto Palaia | pp. 301–310
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Experience and identity of the self: The emergence of consciousness as a cognitive concept in the early modern ageAntonio Lamarra | pp. 311–326
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Consciousness and imagination in the anthropological view of G. Vico: The modern concept of coscienza in Vico’s De antiquissimaManuela Sanna | pp. 327–336
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Consciousness and faculties in De antiquissima Italorum sapientia by VicoGeri Cerchiai | pp. 337–354
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Authors | pp. 355–360
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References | pp. 361–398
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Index | pp. 399–404
“Might consciousness be better understood as an interactive, situated achievement rather than as some kind of mystery ingredient added to passive perception? The Consciousness in Interaction research project pursued this fundamental question from multiple perspectives and (fittingly) in a series of highly interactive engagements that structured and informed this wonderful volume of essays. The volume is a fitting tribute to Susan Hurley, to whom it is dedicated, and a landmark publication in the search for a richer understanding of consciousness and the structure of experience.”
Andy Clark, University of Edinburgh
“Many hold that conscious experience is determined entirely locally, by internal processes in the brain. But even if that is true, we would also need to understand the subtle flow of contents, the ineffability, the convoluted, many-layered historicity of that target phenomenon, for this is what yields some of the most intriguing aspects of phenomenal experience: the ever-unfolding dance of coupled self-models, dying into each other while dynamically weaving our individual perspectives into the unfathomable mesh of the intersubjective world.”
Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
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Subjects
Consciousness Research
Interaction Studies
Main BIC Subject
JMH: Social, group or collective psychology
Main BISAC Subject
PSY031000: PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology