Substantive Thoughts about Substantive Thoughts: A Reply to Galin

Epstein, Russell A.

doi:10.1006/ccog.2000.0487

Consciousness and Cognition

2000

DOI: 10.1006/ccog.2000.0487

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Substantive Thoughts about Substantive Thoughts: A Reply to Galin

Russell A. Epstein

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“…Galin renames the nucleus "feature awareness", since it involves the dimension of consciousness which concentrates on salient "characteristics", while the fringe is "explicating awareness" since its function is that of "explaining" such "characteristics" with contextual information Epstein (2000b). admits that a careful review of the "stream of thought" leads one to see every substantive thought as a nucleus of salient characteristics (for the most part perceptive) and a fringe of fulfilled relations.…”

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Art as a metaphor of the mind

Lavazza¹

2008

Phenom Cogn Sci

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This paper focuses on the emergent neo-Jamesian perspective concerning the phenomenology of art and aesthetic experience. Starting from the distinction between nucleus and fringe in the stream of thought described by William James, it can be argued that our appreciation of a work of art is guided by a vague and blurred perception of a much more powerful content, of which we are not fully aware. Accordingly, a work of art is seen as a kind of metaphor of our mental life, objectified to be able to reach out to a much larger audience. However, it is a "realistic" theory rooted in evolutionary psychology, which claims that our mind developed within a framework shaped by environmental pressures. The aesthetics illustrated by several novelists develops a paradigm for this theory. The search for the neuronal correlates of stream of consciousness allows to make a comparison with the recent findings of neuroaesthetics and to reject its claim that it is unnecessary to take phenomenology and psychology into account.

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Art as a metaphor of the mind

Lavazza¹

2008

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Aesthetic experience: Marcel Proust and the neo-Jamesian structure of awareness

Galin

2004

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Consciousness, art, and the brain: Lessons from Marcel Proust

Epstein

2004

Consciousness and Cognition

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Substantive Thoughts about Substantive Thoughts: A Reply to Galin

Cited by 6 publications

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Art as a metaphor of the mind

Art as a metaphor of the mind

Aesthetic experience: Marcel Proust and the neo-Jamesian structure of awareness

Consciousness, art, and the brain: Lessons from Marcel Proust

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