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Reflexive Awareness (Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, Self-Awareness)
In four chapters, I conduct a phenomenological and analytical inquiry into the nature of a special sort of reflexive awareness, an awareness of unprojected or unobjectified awareness. The clearest example of this is the awareness that is felt to be in the background of an experience of …
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Surface Consciousness
Twenty-first century western visual paradigm is still very much dominated by the perspectival discourse established since the Renaissance, where the subjective view is rationalized as objects diminishing in equal proportions towards a singular vanishing point, rendering the space as a homogeneous …
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CONSCIOUSNESS IN CLAY
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p><em>Consciousness in Clay</em> is an exhibition consisting of seven tall ceramic sculptures and nine smaller works. Clay is the ideal medium for these designs; the plasticity during the making phase yields to the stoniness of the finished work and traps the hand movement. As life …
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Consciousness and Physicalism
… a philosophy of mind which attempts to explain consciousness as resulting from physical causes. The lack of a complete and consistent mathematical theory to explain physical causation has led other philosophers of mind to propose that consciousness is a nonphysical essence, property, or …
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Consciousness and intentionality
(cont.) having perceptual experiences, subjects can be--and usually are--directly aware of material objects.
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Consciousness, concepts and content
… of representational accounts of phenomenal consciousness. Indeed, any adequate defense of (reductive) representationalism will require an appeal to so-called phenomenal concepts to deflect a group of related anti-physicalist (and hence anti-representationalist) arguments. What's more, an …
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Consciousness, Representation, and Flexibility
… is conscious first involves determining what consciousness is. In Chapter 1, I argue against the view that consciousness is unlike the rest of cognition, and in favor of a view that sees consciousness as a cognitive function like any other. In Chapter 2, I argue that most cognitivist accounts …
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System dynamics and consciousness
… a review of the fundamental problems of studying consciousness scientifically. From these problems, I propose definitions and an approach that permits the comparison of different individuals via intrinsically-defined dynamics. This approach may permit the mapping of a correspondence between …
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Situating language and consciousness
Language and consciousness enrich our lives. But they are rare commodities; most creatures are language-less and unconscious. This dissertation is about the conditions that distinguish the haves from the have-nots. The semantic properties of a natural language expression are determined by …
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The Morale of Consciousness Wails
This creative thesis, by renown African American poet, John Stigall addresses issues of race in America through poetry.
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The Functional Contributions of Consciousness
… are occupied with the difficult question of what consciousness is, overlooking what the more interesting and fruitful research question: what does consciousness do? My dissertation develops a philosophical method for identifying the functional capacities that conscious experience contributes to …
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The postmodern structure of consciousness
… the metaphor of the postmodern structure of consciousness, as the best tool by which to both identify and understand postmodernism in its literary expression. This is done through an analysis of epistemological and ontological questions, considered specifically in the genre fiction categories …
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Black Consciousness and Political Socialization
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Could consciousness be physically realised?
I defend physicalism about phenomenal consciousness against recent epistemic arguments for dualism. First I argue (as against Kripke) that psychophysical identities can be a posteriori (and apparently contingent, and conceivably false). Their epistemic status is due to the analytic independence of …
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Self-Consciousness: a novel story
This document is the result of work probably better suited to a psychologist than a literary scholar, so I make my apologies in advance if what follows seems at times inappropriately confessional, but I'm afraid that my interest in the subject is less academic than it is personal. Though it was …
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Consciousness, content, and cognitive architecture
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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TEACHING WITH CONSCIOUSNESS: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO SCHOLARS’ EXPERIENCES TEACHING ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS BEYOND THE BRAIN
… open their minds to the possibility that consciousness may exist beyond the brain? To explore this question, I conducted a narrative inquiry with nine scholars from diverse disciplines, cultural, and philosophical orientations, who share an interest in this question in their personal, …
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Coupled Correlates of Attention and Consciousness
… salient conscious experience. Current models of consciousness suggest that both slow wave sleep and Propofol-induced unconsciousness lie at one end of the consciousness spectrum, while attentive states lie at the other end. Accordingly, investigating the electrophysiology underlying attention and …
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