The four authors of this book recognize that no one on the common human journey to the 21st century can pick the best route without consulting a map--that is to say, an interconnected set of understandings about what in a given situation is important, what demands action and attention, and what does not. The problem, they contend, is that the picture of the world we each carry in our mind may not be a true mapping of the reality that surrounds us. This picture, the cognitive map, could always be sharper. The authors prompt us to become more conscious of our own cognitive map, and explain...

The four authors of this book recognize that no one on the common human journey to the 21st century can pick the best route without consulting a map--that is to say, an interconnected set of understandings about what in a given situation is important, what demands action and attention, and what does not. The problem, they contend, is that the picture of the world we each carry in our mind may not be a true mapping of the reality that surrounds us. This picture, the cognitive map, could always be sharper. The authors prompt us to become more conscious of our own cognitive map, and explain...

A special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies to mark the centenary of the death of the pioneer psychologist William James. Contents include an Editor's Foreword (by Allan Combs) and a Psychological Commentary on the Essays (by Eugene Taylor). The main papers included are: Nineteenth Century Pioneers in the Study of Dissociation: William James and Psychical Research (Carlos S. Alvarado & Stanley Krippner); The Ever-New Flow of Time: Henri Bergson's View of Consciousness (G. William Barnard); Consciousness Already There Waiting to be Uncovered: William James's Mystical Suggestion...