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This title presents a selection of papers that were first presented in an international workshop "Varieties and Dimensions of Conscious Experience", held at the University of Skovde, in November 1997. The idea of the workshop was to bring together a small number of researchers who share in common an interest in conscious experience but approach the phenomenon from different angles. As a result, the following dimensions of conscious experience are covered in this anthology: subjectivity versus objectivity, nonconceptuality versus conceptuality, language, evolution, neural level, microphysical level, creativity, art and dreams. The book provides a kind of "microcosm" of the developing interdisciplinary field of consciousness studies.
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Dimensions of Conscious Experience
Advances in Consciousness Research Advances in Consciousness Research provides a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Thus the Series will include (but not be limited to) the various areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, linguistics, brain science and philosophy. The orientation of the Series is toward developing new interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation, description and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences of this research for the individual and society. Series A: Theory and Method. Contributions to the development of theory and method in the study of consciousness.
Editor Maxim I. Stamenov Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Editorial Board David Chalmers, University of Arizona Gordon G. Globus, University of California at Irvine Ray Jackendoff, Brandeis University Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology Stephen Kosslyn, Harvard University Earl Mac Cormac, Duke University George Mandler, University of California at San Diego John R. Searle, University of California at Berkeley Petra Stoerig, Universität Düsseldorf Francisco Varela, C.R.E.A., Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Volume 37 Dimensions of Conscious Experience Edited by Paavo Pylkkänen and Tere Vadén
Dimensions of Conscious Experience Edited by
Paavo Pylkkänen University of Skövde
Tere Vadén University of Tampere/University of Skövde
John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dimensions of conscious experience / edited by Paavo Pylkkänen, Tere Vadén. p. cm. (Advances in Consciousness Research, issn 1381–589X ; v. 37) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Consciousness--Congresses. I. Pylkkänen, P. (Paavo) II. Vadén, Tere. III. Series. BF311.D536 2001 153--dc21 isbn 90 272 51576 (Eur.) / 1 58811 1253 (US) (Hb; alk. paper)
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Table of contents
List of contributors Introduction
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Conceptual Foundation A view from anywhere: Prospects for an objective understanding of consciousness Ronald L. Chrisley Cons