Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Abstract: XIV Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Resurgence in Consciousness Studies 3 Disagreements in Consciousness Studies 6 Foundational Issues: Defining and Measuring Consciousness 7 Meanings Attributed to “Consciousness” 8 Consciousness level and conscious contents 9 Functional and experiential aspects of consciousness 11 Operational definitions of consciousness 13 Measures of Conscious Content 15 First-person and third-person measures of conscious content 15 Objective and subjective behavioural report 16 Objective report 16 Subjective report 17 Interim Summary: Definitions and Measures 19 Contrastive Analysis: An Obstacle to Investigating Graded Consciousness 20 The Method of Contrastive Analysis 20 Common Techniques for Creating Visual Consciousness Contrasts 21 Contrastive Analysis and the Form of Consciousness Debate 23 Summary 24
Author: Henk Pretorius
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1483480320