Research Catalog

Title

Intersensory origin of mind : a revisit to emergent evolution / Thorne Shipley.

Author

Shipley, Thorne.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

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Description

xx, 251 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• In Intersensory Origin of Mind Thorne Shipley proposes a fundamental revision of the core of modern psychology. With a serious respect for the history of science, Shipley shows the profound limits of linear, mechanistic and naively reductionistic accounts of the mind, and proposes instead a sensory rationalist position which builds upon the principles of emergent evolution. In this way, also, he begins the construction of a scientific foundation for the psychotherapeutic process.
• Combining several diverse perspectives, from the physiological optics of Helmholtz, the perceptual science of Kohler, the visual electro-physiology of Hubel/Wiesel to the theories of Dewey, Polanyi, Cassirer, Chomsky, Freud and Piaget, Intersensory Origin of Mind is an ambitious humanistic synthesis of sensory science. It will need to be read by anyone with an interest in philosophical psychology, the nature of human consciousness and the origin of mind.

Subjects

• Intersensory effects
• Intellect
• Sensorimotor integration
• Senses and sensation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Some starting points for a new humanistic psychology -- 2. Many valid approaches to mind -- 3. Introduction to the natural history of mind -- 4. The perception of routes, methods, and linear arguments -- 5. Time as quality from routes as durations -- 6. The multimodality of space-quality -- 7. Ideas: another complex quality of experience -- 8. Ideas of objects vs. ideas of ideas -- 9. Specific contribution of the human senses to cognitive function -- 10. The mind is like a ... -- 11. Key concepts in theoretical neurology -- 12. The origin of free will -- 13. The neural foundations of accelerated self-awareness -- 14. Crucial concepts for pedagogy and child development -- 15. Afterword.

ISBN

0415120039 (HB)

LCCN

94041442

OCLC

• 31435117
• ocm31435117

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries