The Bodily Nature of Consciousness
Author | : Kathleen Virginia Wider |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1997 |
ISBN-10 | : 0801485029 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780801485022 |
Rating | : 4/5 (022 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Bodily Nature of Consciousness written by Kathleen Virginia Wider and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Kathleen V. Wider discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of consciousness in Being and Nothingness in light of recent work by analytic philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. She brings together phenomenological and scientific understandings of the nature of consciousness and argues that the two approaches can strengthen and suppport each other. Work on consciousness from two very different philosophical traditions--the continental and analytic--contributes to her explanation of the deep-seated intuition that all consciousness is self-consciousness.