Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain [electronic resource] /
Sieroka, N.author.
This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory perception and making new and updated use of Leibniz and Husserl, it investigates the transition from unconscious to conscious states, especially with regard to the constitution of phenomenal time.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Conventions; Part I Introduction; 1 Summary and Scope; 1.1 Summary of content; 1.2 Relevance and contribution to contemporary philosophy; 2 Methodology: Re-thinking Leibniz and Husserl; 2.1 Gaining orientation by re-thinking Leibniz; 2.2 Extrapolations, syntactic metaphors, and explications; 2.3 Phenomenology of (unconscious?) perception; 2.4 Non-propositionality of (subliminal) perception; Part II Perception; 3 Leibniz on Unconscious Perception
3.1 Monads and their perceptual activity3.2 Leibniz on perception as 'expression'; 3.3 Leibniz on unnoticeable and unnoticed perception; 3.4 Appetites, volition, and freedom; 4 Recent (Empirical) Support for a Leibnizian Approach; 4.1 Contemporary evidence for unconscious perception; 4.2 Leibniz's principles of physics and perception; 4.3 Corroboration of the pre-established harmony; 4.4 Case study: a Leibnizian interpretation of Libet's experiment; 5 From Unconscious to Conscious Perception, Following Leibniz; 5.1 Transitions in perception: analogies from exact science
5.2 A threshold in distinctness5.3 Leibniz on attention, apperception, and reflection; Part III Intermezzo; 6 Auditory Perception and Time; 6.1 Manifestations of sounds and their expressive relationships; 6.2 Hearing (and) time on different scales; Part IV Time; 7 Phenomenological Re-assessments of Leibniz; 7.1 Intentionality, adumbrations, moments, and intuition; 7.2 Simple reflection and immediate memory; 8 A Leibniz-Husserlian Approach on Time Consciousness; 8.1 Husserl on time consciousness; 8.2 Relations to Leibniz's approach; 8.3 Repercussions between phenomenology and neuroscience
9 Perceptual Time and Physical Time: Expression Instead of Reduction9.1 Minds, bodies, and persons; 9.2 Tensed and tenseless orders of time; 9.3 Phenomenal physical time? Naturalized perceptual time?; 9.4 Temporal orders expressing each other; Epilogue; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory perception and making new and updated use of Leibniz and Husserl, it investigates the transition from unconscious to conscious states, especially with regard to the constitution of phenomenal time.
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophy and science.
Astronomy.
Astrophysics.
Phenomenology .
Philosophy of Mind.
Philosophy of Science.
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Phenomenology.