Stream of Consciousness: Unity and Continuity

Stream of Consciousnessis about the phenomenology of conscious experience. Barry Dainton shows us that stream of consciousness is not a mosaic of discrete fragments of experience, but rather an interconnected flowing whole. Through a deep probing into the nature of awareness, introspection, phenomenal space and time consciousness, Dainton offers a truly original understanding of the nature of consciousness.

Barry Dainton is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.

List of figures

xi

Preface

xii

Introduction

1

(27)

The phenomenal

1

(4)

The phenomenal and the physical

5

(5)

Understanding

10

(4)

Perception and projection

14

(4)

Phenomenology

18

(3)

Reality, appearance and phenomenal truths

21

(2)

Questions of demarcation and individuation

23

(2)

A look ahead

25

(3)

Unity, introspection and awareness

28

(32)

Awareness

28

(1)

The phenomenal background

29

(5)

Unity and introspection

34

(7)

Pure awareness

41

(3)

The A-thesis and common sense

44

(4)

Variations on a theme

48

(9)

Simplicity

57

(3)

Phenomenal space

60

(28)

Consciousness, co-consciousness and space

60

(3)

Non-spatial consciousness?

63

(2)

Dis-integration

65

(7)

Phenomenal spaces

72

(6)

The S-thesis reconsidered

78

(2)

V-spaces: further issues

80

(4)

Co-consciousness

84

(4)

Transitivity

88

(25)

Co-consciousness as a relation

88

(2)

Streams and their parts

90

(5)

Unity and transitivity

95

(2)

Transitivity: The case against

97

(6)

Transitivity: The case for

103

(6)

A question of interpretation

109

(4)

Phenomenal time: problems and principles

113

(23)

Time in experience

113

(4)

Continuity in question

117

(3)

Experience, the present, and presence

120

(3)

Memory and the experience of time

123

(5)

Pulses and binding

128

(3)

A conflict of principles

131

(5)

Broad and Husserl

136

(26)

A curious tale

136

(1)

Broad: The early account

137

(5)

Broad: The later account

142

(3)

Connectedness and presentedness

145

(5)

Husserl on the `consciousness of internal time'

150

(4)

New words, old problems

154

(5)

Husserl's change of view

159

(3)

The overlap model

162

(21)

Foster on the time within experience

162

(5)

Innocent curiosities

167

(2)

Durations and thresholds

169

(4)

Symmetry, flow and mode

173

(4)

Passage within a four-dimensional world

177

(2)

Time, awareness and simultaneity

179

(4)

Phenomenal interdependence

183

(31)

Bundles and bonds

183

(2)

Wholes and parts

185

(2)

Mereological essentialism

187

(3)

Phenomenal interdependence

190

(5)

Interdependence and its limits: sensory wholes

195

(6)

Strong Impingement

201

(6)

Interdependence and its limits: meaning

207

(7)

The ramifications of co-consciousness

214

(26)

Co-conscious wholes

214

(4)

Global character: type holism and token holism

218

(6)

Space and character

224

(3)

C-holism and succession

227

(2)

C-holism and temporal modes of presentation

229

(3)

Transitivity revisited

232

(3)

Conclusion

235

(5)

Notes

240

(6)

Bibliography

246

(3)

Index

249

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Stream of Consciousness: Unity and Continuity in Conscious Experience

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