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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on consciousness and the self

edited bySangeetha Menon Anindya Sinha

Abstract

This book brings together ancient spiritual wisdom and modern science and philosophy to address age-old questions regarding our existence, free will and the nature of conscious awareness.

Stuart Hameroff MD
Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director, Center for Consciousness Studies

The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

 

This book presents a rich, broad-ranging overview of contemporary research and scholarship into consciousness and the self…. It is … to their credit that the editors have assembled a highly stimulating set of scholars whose expertise cover all the relevant areas. I strongly recommend the book to anyone with an interest in understanding the directions in which contemporary thinking about the nature of consciousness is headed.

B. Les Lancaster

Emeritus Professor of Transpersonal Psychology

Liverpool John Moores University, UK

 

 

This volume is a collection of 17 essays that contribute to the emerging discipline of consciousness studies with particular focus on the concept of the self. The essays together argue that to understand consciousness is to understand the self that beholds consciousness. Two broad issues are addressed in the volume: the place of the self in the lives of humans and nonhuman primates; and the interrelations between the self and consciousness, which contribute to the understanding of cognitive functions, awareness, free will, nature of reality, and the complex experiential and behavioural attributes of consciousness. The book presents cutting-edge and original work from well-known authors and scholars of philosophy, psychiatry, behavioural sciences and physics. This is a pioneering attempt to present to the reader multiple ways of conceptualizing and thus understanding the relation between consciousness and self in a nuanced manner.

Details | Table of Contents

Converging on the self

Western philosophy, Eastern meditation and scientific research

Jonathan Shear

pp.41-50

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1587-5_4
Consciousness and first-person phenomenology

first steps towards an experiential phenomenological writing and reading (ewr)

Natalie Depraz

pp.127-149

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1587-5_11
Reality and consciousness

is quantum biology the future of life sciences?

B. V. Sreekantan

pp.263-278

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1587-5_20

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2014

Pages: 328

ISBN (hardback): 978-81-322-1586-8

ISBN (digital): 978-81-322-1587-5

Full citation:

Menon Sangeetha, Sinha Anindya (2014) Interdisciplinary perspectives on consciousness and the self. Dordrecht, Springer.