Between Ourselves: Second-person Issues in the Study of Consciousness

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Evan Thompson
Imprint Academic, 2001 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 313 pages

The first volume in this series (The View from Within, ed. Francisco Varela and Jonathan Shear) was a study of first-person approaches to the study of consciousness. Second-person 'I-You' relations are central to human life yet have been neglected in consciousness research. This book puts that right, and goes further by including descriptions of animal 'person-to-person' interactions from primatologists Barbara Smuts and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. Other contributions are drawn from fields as diverse as Japanese philosophy and Buddhist studies, neurophysiology, phenomenology and neuropsychology - including clinical studies on autism and face-recognition disorders.

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Contents

Jonathan Cole Empathy Needs a Face
51
Iso Kern and Eduard Marbach Understanding
69
Victoria McGeer PsychoPractice PsychoTheory
109
Dimensions of Intersubjective Experience
133
Natalie Depraz The Husserlian Theory of Intersubjectivity
169
Ethics and the CoEmergence of Self and Other
197
Intersubjectivity and Illness Experience
247
Interspecies Subjectivity
273
Barbara Smuts Encounters with Animal Minds
293
Index
310
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