PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE The Science of Subjectivity
Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain
Joseph Neisser, Neisser College, USA
Norman Sieroka, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Can neuroscience help explain the first-person perspective? The Science of Subjectivity delves into the nature of experience, arguing that unconscious subjectivity is a reality. Neisser identifies the biological roots of the first-person, showing how ancient systems of animal navigation enable creatures like us to cope with our worldly concerns.
This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory perception and making new and updated use of Leibniz and Husserl, it investigates the transition from unconscious to conscious states, especially with regard to the constitution of phenomenal time.
Contents: Introduction: Consciousness, Subjectivity, And The History Of The Organism * PART I: SUBJECTIVITY CONSIDERED AS THE FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVE * 1. Subjectivity And Reference * 2. Unconscious Subjectivity * 3. What Subjectivity Is Not * PART II: SUBJECTIVITY IN THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL IMAGE * Introduction: Subjectivity In The Neurobiological Image * 4. The Science Of Subjectivity * 5. Putting The Neuro In Neurophenomenology * 6. Neural Correlates Of Consciousness Reconsidered * Postscript: Neurophilosophy, Darwinian Naturalism, And Subjectivity April 2015 UK April 2015 US 224pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137466617
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Pragmatism and the Search for Coherence in Neuroscience Jay Schulkin, Georgetown University, USA We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recent. Two things converge in this book: a great respect for neuroscience and its many variations, and a sense of investigation and inquiry demythologized. Think of it as foraging for coherence. Contents: Introduction: Beginnings * 1. Foraging and Neuroscience * 2. An Aura of Neuroscience * 3. Growth and Knowledge * 4. A Field Expanding * 5. Great Expectations * 6. Neurological Conditions and Their Treatment * 7. Neuroscience and Culture * Conclusion July 2015 UK July 2015 US 272pp 23 tables, 33 figures Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137526724
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Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION * 1. Summary and Scope * 1.1. Summary of Content * 1.2. Relevance and Contribution to Contemporary Philosophy * 2. Methodology: Re-Thinking Leibniz and Husserl * 2.1. Gaining Orientation by Re-thinking Leibniz * 2.2. Extrapolations, Syntactic Metaphors, and Explications * 2.3. Phenomenology of (Unconscious?) Perception * 2.4. Non-propositionality of (Subliminal) Perception * PART II: PERCEPTION * 3. Leibniz on Unconscious Perception * 3.1. Monads and their Perceptual Activity * 3.2. Leibniz on Perception as ‘Expression’ * 3.3. Leibniz on Unnoticeable and Unnoticed Perception * 3.4. Appetites, Volition, and Freedom * 4. Recent (Empirical) Support for a Leibnizian Approach * 4.1. Contemporary Evidence for Unconscious Perception * 4.2. Leibniz’s Principles of Physics and Perception * 4.3. Corroboration of the Pre-established Harmony * 4.4. Case Study: a Leibnizian Interpretation of Libet’s Experiment * 5. From Unconscious to Conscious Perception Following Leibniz * 5.1. Transitions in Perception: Analogies from Exact Science * 5.2. A Threshold in Distinctness * 5.3. Leibniz on Attention, Apperception, and Reflection * PART III: INTERMEZZO * 6. Auditory Perception and Time * 6.1. Manifestations of Sounds and their Expressive Relationships * 6.2. Hearing (and) Time on Different Scales * PART IV: TIME * 7. Phenomenological Re-Assessments of Leibniz * 7.1. Intentionality, Adumbrations, Moments, and Intuition * 7.2. Simple Reflection and Immediate Memory * 8. A Leibniz-Husserlian Approach on Time Consciousness * 8.1. Husserl on Time Consciousness * 8.2. Relations to Leibniz’s Approach * 8.3. Repercussions between Phenomenology and Neuroscience * 9. Perceptual Time and Physical Time: Expression Instead of Reduction * 9.1. Minds, Bodies, Persons * 9.2. Tensed and Tenseless Orders of Time * 9.3. Phenomenal Physical Time? Naturalized Perceptual Time? * 9.4. Temporal Orders Expressing Each Other January 2015 UK January 2015 US 320pp 6 figures Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137454553
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Philosophy of Leadership The Power of Authority Robert Spillane, Macquarie University, Australia, Jean-Etienne Joullié, International College of Management, Sydney, Australia Philosophy of Leadership has been written to arouse curiosity, not to satisfy it. The authors point out ideas about leadership which draw upon both ancient and modern wisdom. This book develops a philosophy of leadership by tracing the evolution of Western ideas from philosophical perspectives, ancient and modern. Contents: 1. Heroic Leadership: Authority as Power * 2. Rational Leadership: Arguing to Authority * 3. Cynicism: Confronting Managerial Leadership * 4. Stoicism: Managing Adversity * 5. Religious Leadership: Two Faces of Authority * 6. Political Leadership: Contractual Authority * 7. German Romanticism: The Power of the Will * 8. Heroic Individualism: Anarchistic and Aristocratic * 9. Existentialism: Autonomy and Authority * 10. Leadership: The Power of Authority October 2015 UK October 2015 US 256pp Hardback £75.00 / $120.00 / CN$138.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137499189
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