Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness

New methodologies and maps

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Max Velmans | University of London

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How can one investigate phenomenal consciousness? As in other areas of science, the investigation of consciousness aims for a more precise knowledge of its phenomena, and the discovery of general truths about their nature. This requires the development of appropriate first-person, second-person and third-person methods. This book introduces some of the creative ways in which these methods can be applied to different purposes, e.g. to understanding the relation of consciousness to brain, to examining or changing consciousness as such, and to understanding the way consciousness is influenced by social, clinical and therapeutic contexts. To clarify the strengths and weaknesses of different methods and to demonstrate the interplay of methodology and epistemology, the book also suggests a number of “maps” of the consciousness studies terrain that place different approaches to the study of consciousness into a broader, interdisciplinary context.
(Series A).

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 13] 2000. xii, 381 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.13

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | p. ix

Contributors | pp. xi–xii

1: An Introduction to Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness

Max Velmans | pp. 1–15

Part 1A: Combining First- and Third-Person Methods

2: Current Methods of Investigation in Neuroscience

Peter Fenwick | pp. 19–32

3: The Experimental Investigation of Unconscious Conflict, Unconscious Affect, and Unconscious Signal Anxiety

Howard Shevrin | pp. 33–65

4: A Psychoanalytic Contribution to Contemporary Neuroscience

Mark Solms | pp. 67–95

Part 1B: Re-examining the Scope and Limits of First-Person Methods

5: Phenomenological Approaches to the Study of Conscious Awareness

Richard Stevens | pp. 99–120

6: The Gesture of Awareness: An Account of its Structural Dynamics

Nathalie Depraz, Francisco J. Varela and Pierre Vermersch | pp. 121–137

Part 1C: Changing Conscious Experience

7: Transforming Conscious Experience

Jane Henry | pp. 139–165

8: Clinical implications of an intersubjective science

Janet Richardson | pp. 167–192

9: The Nature and Transformation of Consciousness in Eastern and Western Psychospiritual Traditions

David Fontana | pp. 193–212

Part 2: Maps of Consciousness Studies

10: Modern Science and the Mind

Alwyn Scott | pp. 215–232

11: Social Construction and Consciousness

Rom Harré | pp. 233–253

12: Investigating Altered States of Consciousness on Their Own Terms: State-Specific Sciences

Charles T. Tart | pp. 255–278

13: Methods are a Message

John Pickering | pp. 279–300

14: An integral approach to consciousness research: a proposal for integrating first, second, and third person approaches to consciousness

Ken Wilber and Roger Walsh | pp. 301–331

15: A Psychologist s Map of Consciousness Studies

Max Velmans | pp. 333–358

Name Index | pp. 359–365

Subject Index | pp. 367–381

“We can finally subject a vast number of intriguing ideas in consciousness studies to careful scientific scrutiny. The banquet of perspectives in this volume will serve as a superlative guide for future inquiries. An excellent read!”

Jaak Panksepp, Distinguished Research Professor, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

“Velmans does an extraordinary good job of drawing together disparate approaches to the scientific study of consciousness and first-person experience. The emphasis is clearly placed on a rigorous pluralism an interdisciplinary triangulation of methods that remain tied to empirical verification.”

Shaun Gallagher, Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

“This important collection will be essential reading for researchers and students alike, and will stimulate discussion for some time to come.”

Evan Thompson, Department of Philosophy, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada

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