View from Within: First-person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness (Consciousness Studies)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Over the last decade there has been a resurgence of interest in the scientific study of consciousness ― an area that has been largely ignored since the time of William James. This renaissance has primarily been stimulated by developments in PET, fMRI and other brain-scanning technology that enable scientists to pinpoint the neural correlates of conscious experience with ever-increasing accuracy. However, the study of conscious experience itself has not kept pace with these advances in third-person methodologies. If anything, the standard approaches to examining the ‘view from within&r...
ISBN(s)
0907845258, 9780907845256
