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Author Windt, Jennifer Michelle, 1978- author.

Title Dreaming : a conceptual framework for philosophy of mind and empirical research / Jennifer Michelle Windt.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 798 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-764) and index.
Contents General introduction : the conceptualization problem of dreaming -- Dream skepticism, skepticism about dreaming, and the problem of dream experience -- A short introduction to empirical dream research: history, methodology, and changing theoretical conceptions -- Methodological background assumptions of scientific dream research -- Antiskepticism about dreaming and dream reporting: from default assumption to theoretical justification -- Dreaming as quasi-perceptual experience: the traditional view -- Dreaming as imaginative experience: the rival view -- Are dreams subjective experiences, I? : phenomenal selfhood and bodily experiences in dreams -- Are dreams disembodied experiences? : the role of the body and of the brain in shaping bodily experience in dreams -- Are dreams subjective experiences, II? : the phenomenology of thinking and the problem of dream belief -- Are dreams deceptive experiences? : deception, delusion, and insight -- From oneiragogia to full-fledged dreaming : the immersive-spatiotemporal-hallucination model of dreaming -- Relocating dreams on the conceptual map : consequences and perspectives for future research.
Summary "Dreams, conceived as conscious experience or phenomenal states during sleep, offer an important contrast condition for theories of consciousness and the self. Yet, although there is a wealth of empirical research on sleep and dreaming, its potential contribution to consciousness research and philosophy of mind is largely overlooked. This might be due, in part, to a lack of conceptual clarity and an underlying disagreement about the nature of the phenomenon of dreaming itself. In Dreaming, Jennifer Windt lays the groundwork for solving this problem. She develops a conceptual framework describing not only what it means to say that dreams are conscious experiences but also how to locate dreams relative to such concepts as perception, hallucination, and imagination, as well as thinking, knowledge, belief, deception, and self-consciousness. Arguing that a conceptual framework must be not only conceptually sound but also phenomenologically plausible and carefully informed by neuroscientific research, Windt integrates her review of philosophical work on dreaming, both historical and contemporary, with a survey of the most important empirical findings. This allows her to work toward a systematic and comprehensive new theoretical understanding of dreaming informed by a critical reading of contemporary research findings. Windt's account demonstrates that a philosophical analysis of the concept of dreaming can provide an important enrichment and extension to the conceptual repertoire of discussions of consciousness and the self and raises new questions for future research"--MIT CogNet.
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Language English.
Subject Dreams -- Philosophy.
Dreams.
Philosophy.
Sleep -- Research.
Sleep -- Research.
Sleep.
Indexed Term PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Windt, Jennifer Michelle, 1978- Dreaming. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, [2015] 9780262028677 (DLC) 2014034361 (OCoLC)897401710
ISBN 9780262327466 (electronic book)
0262327465 (electronic book)
0262028670
9780262028677