Dreaming : a conceptual framework for philosophy of mind and empirical research / Jennifer Michelle Windt.
2015
BF1078 .W476 2015eb
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Dreaming : a conceptual framework for philosophy of mind and empirical research / Jennifer Michelle Windt.
ISBN
9780262327466 (electronic bk.)
0262327465 (electronic bk.)
0262028670
9780262028677
0262327465 (electronic bk.)
0262028670
9780262028677
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxv, 798 pages)
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BF1078 .W476 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
154.6/3
Summary
"Dreams, conceived as conscious experience or phenomenal states during sleep, offer an important contrast condition for theories of consciousness and the self. Yet, although there is a wealth of empirical research on sleep and dreaming, its potential contribution to consciousness research and philosophy of mind is largely overlooked. This might be due, in part, to a lack of conceptual clarity and an underlying disagreement about the nature of the phenomenon of dreaming itself. In Dreaming, Jennifer Windt lays the groundwork for solving this problem. She develops a conceptual framework describing not only what it means to say that dreams are conscious experiences but also how to locate dreams relative to such concepts as perception, hallucination, and imagination, as well as thinking, knowledge, belief, deception, and self-consciousness. Arguing that a conceptual framework must be not only conceptually sound but also phenomenologically plausible and carefully informed by neuroscientific research, Windt integrates her review of philosophical work on dreaming, both historical and contemporary, with a survey of the most important empirical findings. This allows her to work toward a systematic and comprehensive new theoretical understanding of dreaming informed by a critical reading of contemporary research findings. Windt's account demonstrates that a philosophical analysis of the concept of dreaming can provide an important enrichment and extension to the conceptual repertoire of discussions of consciousness and the self and raises new questions for future research"--MIT CogNet.
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