Leibniz, Husserl, and the brain [Texte imprimé] / Norman Sieroka

"Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain is about the structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of perception, consciousness and time. Its focus lies with auditory perception, since nearly all perceived qualities in hearing - such as pitch, rhythm and the localization or origin of a sound - are most intimately related to temporal patterns and regularities. Here striking analogies are shown between the structural features of perceptual states, as dealt with in philosophical phenomenology, and of their physical counterparts, as dealt with in neurophysiology. Accordingly, the comprehensive and consolidating references to the work of Leibniz and Husserl are not for philological reasons, but, rather, to work towards philosophical orientation in a conceptual maze. They allow for a fresh view on several issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and also in psychophysics - in particular, on the transition from unconscious to conscious states and on the constitution of time consciousness"-- Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1. Summary and Scope -- 1.1. Summary of Content -- 1.2. Relevance and Contribution to Contemporary Philosophy -- 2. Methodology: Re-Thinking Leibniz and Husserl -- 2.1. Gaining Orientation by Re-thinking Leibniz -- 2.2. Extrapolations, Syntactic Metaphors, and Explications -- 2.3. Phenomenology of (Unconscious?) Perception -- 2.4. Non-propositionality of (Subliminal) Perception -- PART II: PERCEPTION -- 3. Leibniz on Unconscious Perception -- 3.1. Monads and their Perceptual Activity -- 3.2. Leibniz on Perception as 'Expression' -- 3.3. Leibniz on Unnoticeable and Unnoticed Perception -- 3.4. Appetites, Volition, and Freedom -- 4. Recent (Empirical) Support for a Leibnizian Approach -- 4.1. Contemporary Evidence for Unconscious Perception -- 4.2. Leibniz's Principles of Physics and Perception -- 4.3. Corroboration of the Pre-established Harmony -- 4.4. Case Study: a Leibnizian Interpretation of Libet's Experiment -- 5. From Unconscious to Conscious Perception Following Leibniz -- 5.1. Transitions in Perception: Analogies from Exact Science -- 5.2. A Threshold in Distinctness -- 5.3. Leibniz on Attention, Apperception, and Reflection -- PART III: INTERMEZZO -- 6. Auditory Perception and Time -- 6.1. Manifestations of Sounds and their Expressive Relationships -- 6.2. Hearing (and) Time on Different Scales -- PART IV: TIME -- 7. Phenomenological Re-Assessments of Leibniz -- 7.1. Intentionality, Adumbrations, Moments, and Intuition -- 7.2. Simple Reflection and Immediate Memory -- 8. A Leibniz-Husserlian Approach on Time Consciousness -- 8.1. Husserl on Time Consciousness -- 8.2. Relations to Leibniz's Approach -- 8.3. Repercussions between Phenomenology and Neuroscience -- 9. Perceptual Time and Physical Time: Expression Instead of Reduction -- 9.1. Minds, Bodies, Persons -- 9.2. Tensed and Tenseless Orders of Time -- 9.3. Phenomenal Physical Time? Naturalized Perceptual Time? -- 9.4. Temporal Orders Expressing Each Other