Consciousness & Emotion
Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception
Editors
The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction." Enactive emotional processes are not merely the recipients of information or the passive victims of input and learning. The organism first is engaged in an ongoing, complex pattern of self-organizational activity, for the purpose of maintaining a dynamical continuity of pattern across changes of subserving micro-constituents and environmental conditions, making use of multiple shunt mechanisms, feedback loops, and other complex dynamical features. Self-organizational structure is used to distinguish between action and mere reaction. Accordingly, the papers of this volume by leading students of emotion such as Jaak Panksepp, Luc Ciompi, Thomas Natsoulas, Farzaneh Pahlavan, Michela Balconi, Todd Lubart, Louise Sundararajan, Jordan Petersen and others address three main issues:
I. Emotional influences on perception and thought
II. Agency and choice
III. Agency and moral value
I. Emotional influences on perception and thought
II. Agency and choice
III. Agency and moral value
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 1] 2005. xii, 330 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionRalph D. Ellis and Natika Newton | pp. ix–xii
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I. EMOTIONAL INFLUENCES ON PERCEPTION AND THOUGHT
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Subjective prerequisites for the construction of an objective worldGudmund J.W. Smith and Ingegerd Carlsson | pp. 3–21
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Energetic effects of emotions on cognitions: Complementary psychobiological and psychosocial findingsLuc Ciompi and Jaak Panksepp | pp. 23–55
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Negative affective states’ effects on perception of affective picturesFarzaneh Pahlavan and Todd Lubart | pp. 57–80
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Neural development: Affective and immune system influencesGeorge F.R. Ellis and Judith A. Toronchuk | pp. 81–119
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Consciousness, emotion and face: An event-related potentials studyMichela Balconi and Claudio Lucchiari | pp. 121–135
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Phenomenal consciousness, sense impressions, and the logic of “what it’s like”David Beisecker | pp. 137–153
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II. AGENCY AND CHOICE
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Exposing the covert agentAnton Lethin | pp. 157–180
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Doing it and Meaning it: And the Relationship Between the TwoMarek McGann and Steve Torrance | pp. 181–195
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Anticipatory consciousness, Libet’s veto, and a close-enough theory of free willAzim F. Shariff and Jordan Peterson | pp. 197–215
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Freud’s phenomenology of the emotionsThomas Natsoulas | pp. 217–241
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Verbal expressions of self and emotions: A taxonomy with implications for Alexithymia and related disordersLouise Sundararajan and Lenhart K. Schubert | pp. 243–284
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III. AGENCY AND MORAL VALUE
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Apt affect: Moral concept mastery and the phenomenology of emotionsElisa A. Hurley | pp. 287–301
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The Varieties of Religious Experience considered from the perspective of James’s account of the stream of consciousnessThomas Natsoulas | pp. 303–325
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Index | p. 327
“Overall, this is an interesting book, and for the reader who sufficiently devotes him or herself to the wealth of information and data presented, there is much to be learned about nature of contemporary accounts of conscious choice and agency.”
Roger Frie, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology Vol. 38, No. 2 (2007)
“In terms of where this all fits in the marketplace, however, the new book series is reminiscent of an age-independent 'Advances in Child Development and Behavior' (integrative), but situated thematically between the 'Journal of Consciousness Studies' (theoretical) and 'Consciousness and Cognition' (empirical). Given the fast amount of these kinds of work needed to adequately address the question of 'what it is like to be a human', the series is likely to be welcomed by everyone interested in the topic.”
Jeremy Trevelyan Burman, in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 13, No. 12 (2006)
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Subjects
Consciousness Research
Psychology
Main BIC Subject
JMT: States of consciousness
Main BISAC Subject
PSY020000: PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology