| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Value inquiry book series,
0929-8436 ;
volume 327
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Cognitive science
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Ellis Horwood series in cognitive science.
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Value inquiry book series.
0929-8436 ; volume 327.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to the simplicity argument and its relation to previous studies -- The simplicity argument : meanings, relations, and space -- The simplicity argument and the freedom of consciousness -- The simplicity argument and immanent time-consciousness -- The simplicity argument and the quality of consciousness -- Neuromania and neo-phrenology versus consciousness -- The simplicity argument versus a materialist theory of mind -- The bicameral mind, the abyss, and underworlds -- Loneliness: in harm's way -- Metaphysical dualism, subjective idealism, and existentialism. |
| Summary |
"Current research claims loneliness is passively caused by external conditions: environmental, cultural, situational, and even chemical imbalances in the brain and hence avoidable. In this book, the author argues that loneliness is actively constituted by acts of reflexive self-consciousness (Kant) and transcendent intentionality (Husserl) and is, therefore, unavoidable. This work employs a historical, conceptual, and interdisciplinary approach (philosophy, psychology, literature, sociology, etc.) criticizing both psychoanalysis and neuroscience. The book pits materialism, mechanism, determinism, empiricism, phenomenalism, behaviorism, and the neurosciences against dualism, both subjective and objective idealism, rationalism, freedom, phenomenology, and existentialism. It offers a dynamic of loneliness, whose spontaneous subconscious sources undercuts the unconscious of Freud and the "computerism" of the neurosciences by challenging their claims to be predictive sciences"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Loneliness -- Philosophy.
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Loneliness. |
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Philosophy. |
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Consciousness.
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Consciousness. |
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare. Consciousness and loneliness. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019] 9789004375642 (DLC) 2018047331 |
| ISBN |
9004385975 |
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9789004385979 (electronic book) |
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9789004375642 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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