The Bodily Nature of Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of MindIn 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 suppport each other. Work on consciousness from two very different philosophical traditions—the continental and analytic—contributes to her explanation of the deep-seated intuition that all consciousness is self-consciousness. |
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action analysis of consciousness apperception Aquila awareness bad faith behavior being-in-itself blindsight bodily self-consciousness body Cartesian Chapter characterization cogito cogito ergo sum cognitive concepts consciousness involves consciousness is self-consciousness consciousness of objects counterexamples Cussins Descartes Descartes's distinction distinguish Edelman empirical self-consciousness example existence existential psychoanalysis experience explicit knowledge for-itself Fred Dretske fundamental project hence human consciousness Ibid impure reflection in-itself input intentionality Kant lack Law of Identity Locke long-distance truck driver mental Merleau-Ponty mind nature of consciousness negation ness Neural Darwinism nihilation non-thetic nonconscious Nothingness one's oneself Open Peer Commentary past perceiving perception Phenomenology philosophers possible pre-reflective and reflective pre-reflective consciousness pre-reflective level pre-reflective self-consciousness primary perception proprioception Qualia reflective consciousness reflective self-consciousness representation Sartre argues Sartre claims Sartre says Sartre's account Sartre's analysis Sartre's view sciousness self-consciousness of consciousness self-consciousness of pre-reflective subject of consciousness synthesis thesis Transcendence transcendental apperception transcendental self-consciousness unity Velmans