Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781139035385
Content:
Drawing on compelling material from research interviews with former hostages and political prisoners, Guy Saunders reworks three classic thought experiment stories: Parfit's 'Teleporter', Nagel's 'What is it like to be a bat?' and Jackson's 'Mary the colour scientist' to form a fresh look at the study of consciousness. By examining consciousness from a social psychology perspective, Saunders develops a 'cubist psychology of consciousness' through which he challenges the accepted wisdom of mainstream approaches by arguing that people can act freely. What makes 'cubist psychology' is both the many examples taken from different viewpoints and the multiple ways of looking at the key issues of person, mind and world. This is a unique and engaging book that will appeal to students and academics in the field of consciousness studies and other readers with an interest in consciousness
Content:
Introduction -- Part I. To be conscious : To teleport or not to teleport? (Parfit) : Persons and integrity: unity and continuity ; Persons as positive shapes: the boundary of the skin ; Persons characterised as social kinds ; Person s transformed: growing up and upbringing ; PErsons and place: copying background ; To be one and the same person: making more than one replica ; Persons and identity: partial duplication ; Bundle or collection theories of persons ; Collections of memories: John Dean's testimony -- To be a person: ego, bundle and social theories : Negative spaces, shapes and contours : How artists use negative and positive spaces, shapes and contours ; The making of person ; Senses of self ; Social identities ; What collects us together? ; Other people: the stories of feral children ; Other people: the story of Martin Guerre ; Remembering and recollecting ; Our memories: the life of Clive Wearing -- To be captive : Anthony Grey ; Brian Keenan ; Vladimir Bukovsky ; Polyphony : Brian Keenan and polyphony ; Terry Waite : Anthony Grey on polyphony -- Part II. To have consciousness : Introduction ; How we treat experience ; Subjective conscious experience ; Event / experience ; Experience / experiment ; phenomenal feels / qualia ; Point of view ; One after another and one next to another (nacheinander and nebeneinander) ; Cubism / cubist psychology ; The mind-body problem -- 'What is it like to be a bat?' (Nagel) : 'I wouldn't be me if I were you!' ; Why did Nagel choose bats? ; Commentary on Nagel's article ; Point of view ; Subjectivity and a particular point of view ; Ways of knowing ; Wider discussion of subjective conscious experience: the bigger picture -- Treatments of subjective conscious experience in the arts : Film : Being John Malkovich; Film conventions; Point of view; The return of Martin Guerre; Blade runner; The diving bell and the butterfly ; Television : The wire ; Painting : Guernica : Denote, connote and signify ; The novel : Writing conventions ; Subjectivity in written works: writerly consciousness -- A captive mind : 'Turning the tables' ; Acting freely ; Memory and imagination transformed ; Private experience ; Genre of captivity and the human condition -- Part III. To know consciously : Introduction : To know that you know ; To be minded ; Can a person remember their early life? ; Sense of self and proto-minds ; Becoming minded and what is know as 'theory of mind' ; The consequences of knowing that we know ; Do other animals have minds like ours? : Examples ; Gesture / symbol ; Mind-minded conversation ; Conceptual conclusions : World about us; How do I know you? -- Landscape and the world about us : The landscape garden movement ; We make the landscape that landscapes us ; Landscapes wild and tamed : Example: the picturesque ; Standpoints in the arts ; Treatments and landscape ; Freedom and commitment ; Ways of viewing -- 'Mary, the colour scientist' (Jackson) : Variation: 'Mary the captive scientist' or 'the black and white cell' ; Example 1: Rosa Parks ; Example 2. Aung San Suu Kyi ; Example 3: Nina Simone -- Knowing how it feels to be free : Commentary ; Conclusions ; Subjunctive mood -- Conclusions : Captivity ; Acts of consciousness and conscience ; Minded ; Persons ; World about us ; Cubist psychology ; Last words
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521111249
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521111249
Language:
English
Keywords:
Bewusstsein
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Sozialpsychologie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139035385
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