For all their strides in understanding how we create and think about cultures, psychologists, linguists, and logicians have had difficulty explaining how we conceive our selves how the self can, in fact, be both the object and the subjective originator of its surroundings. Harwood Fisher's purpose in this far-reaching, interdisciplinary book is to depict the subjective self in its true complex duality.In The Subjective Self, Fisher argues that the key to depicting both aspects of the self simultaneously and thus modeling it more holistically than before is to visualize the self in a...
For all their strides in understanding how we create and think about cultures, psychologists, linguists, and logicians have had difficulty explaining ...
Harwood Fisher argues against neuroscientific and cognitive scientific explanations of mental states, for they fail to account for the gaps between actions in the brain, cognitive operations, linguistic mapping, and an individual's account of experience. Fisher probes a rich array of thought from the primitive and the dream to the artistic figure of speech, and extending to the scientific metaphor. He draws on first-person methodologies to restore the conscious self to a primary function in the generation of figurative thinking.
How does the individual originate and organize terms and...
Harwood Fisher argues against neuroscientific and cognitive scientific explanations of mental states, for they fail to account for the gaps between ac...
This volume expands the concept and role of the schema, with three goals in mind: 1) to outline the continuing issues in the schema concept as the legacy of Kant s concept and analysis, 2) to show that Kant s challenges resulted in successful but truncated views of the schema and its functions, 3) to reconstruct Otto Selz s schema concept by proposing an alternative. The basis and scope of Selz s schema were intended to yield a more complete follow-up to Kant s challenges. These had emerged out of his unresolved view of the schema as knowledge, on one hand, and thought, on the other....
This volume expands the concept and role of the schema, with three goals in mind: 1) to outline the continuing issues in the schema concept as the ...