The bodily nature of consciousness
Subtitle: Sartre and contemporary philosophy of mind
By: Kathleen Wider.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Sartre, Jean Paul, 1905-; Consciousness.
Description: 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 support each other.

Work on consciousness from two very different philosophical traditions - the continental and the analytic - contributes to her explanation of the deep-seated intuition that all consciousness is self-consciousness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-202) and index.