Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #124844 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .98" h x 6.90" w x 9.88" l, 1.34 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 313 pages

Dan Zahavi, Times Literary Supplement, December 31, 1999
The View from Within, sets out to argue that it would be counterproductive for current consciousness research to continue to disregard the resources contained within exactly these three traditions. In their useful introduction, Varela and Shear, the two editors, spell out why we have to take first-person data into account, and why it is so necessary to develop an appropriate methodology. The publication is very timely indeed. It is a splendid initiative.

Evan Thompson
Since William James, there has been remarkably little attention in the sciences of the mind to the detailed investigation of conscious experience at the personal level. THE VIEW FROM WITHIN advances such investigation along several fronts, with articles on introspection, phenomenology, and meditative psychology. Especially valuable is the editors' introduction, which provides a useful guide to the methodology of first-person accounts, and the articles that build bridges to cognitive science, psychiatry, and the scientific study of meditation techniques. Invited commentaries by leading investigators of consciousness, together with authors' replies, make for a provocative presentation that will be discussed for some time to come.

John Searle
This looks like a great book series a valuable extension of JCS.