Individual Differences in Conscious Experience (Advances in Consciousness Research) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556194366 ISBN 13: 9781556194368

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000

Synopsis

Individual Differences in Conscious Experience is intended for readers with philosophical, psychological, or clinical interests in subjective experience. It addresses some difficult but important issues in the study of consciousness, subconsciousness, and self-consciousness. The book’s fourteen chapters are written by renowned, pioneering researchers who, collectively, have published more than fifty books and more than one thousand journal articles. The editors’ introductory chapter frames the book’s subtext: that mind-brain theories embodying the constraints of individual differences in subjective experience should be given greater credence than nomothetic theories ignoring those constraints. The next five chapters describe research and theory pertaining to individual differences in conscious sensations — specifically, individual differences in pain perception, phantom limbs, gustatory sensations, and mental imagery. Then, two succeeding chapters focus on individual differences in subconsciousness. The final six chapters address individual differences in altered states of self-consciousness — dreams, hypnotic phenomena, and various clinical syndromes.
(Series B)

About this edition

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1556194366
• ISBN 13: 9781556194368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 411
• Editor: Robert G. Kunzendorf, Benjamin Wallace