States of Consciousness: The Pulses of Experience

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States of Consciousness extends Thomas Natsoulas' development of the psychology of consciousness by giving sustained attention to the stream of consciousness and its component 'pulses of experience'. Natsoulas' unrivalled scholarship across psychology, philosophy and cognate fields means that very often surprising connections are made between the works of leading theorists of consciousness, including Brentano, Mead, Bergmann, Strawson, James, Freud, Skinner, Hebb, Gibson, O'Shaughnessy and Woodruff Smith. At a time when interest in consciousness and the brain is growing rapidly, this book provides an in-depth analysis of sophisticated psychological accounts that pertain to consciousness. Its breadth of coverage and interdisciplinary nature will be of interest to postgraduates and specialists in a range of fields, particularly the history of psychology and philosophy of mind.;Introduction: conscious mental phenomena -- A revisioning of the stream of consciousness -- The psychical apparatus -- Radical behaviorism -- Consciousness denied -- Psychophysiological parallelism -- On the sensory-perceptual experiencing one has of things -- A theorist of "the attention" -- Conclusion: against disjunction.