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  1. Social mirrors and shared experiential worlds.Charles Whitehead - 2001 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (4):3-36.
    We humans have a formidable armamentarium of social display behaviours, including song-and-dance, the visual arts, and role-play. Of these, role-play is probably the crucial adaptation which makes us most different from other apes. Human childhood, a sheltered period of ‘extended irresponsibility’, allows us to develop our powers of make-believe and role-play, prerequisites for human cooperation, culture, and reflective consciousness. Social mirror theory, originating with Dilthey, Baldwin, Cooley and Mead, holds that there cannot be mirrors in the mind without mirrors in (...)
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  • Imagining social change: Developing social consciousness in an arts-based pedagogy.Louise Ammentorp - 2007 - Outlines. Critical Practice Studies 9 (1):38-52.
    This paper is a study of a social-justice, arts-based literacy curriculum in a low income, working-class, predominately African-American school district in Newark, New Jersey. Participating students studied photography and poetry of established artists and took and developed their own photographs accompanied by written narratives. As a part of the curriculum students also wrote poetry and analytical essays. I present my findings within the context of a Vygotskian pedagogical approach that takes social consciousness and metaphor as its central concepts. The paper (...)
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  • Attachment and Loss.John Bowlby - 1968 - Pimlico.
    Provides a comprehensive report on the mother-child bond and the emotional effects of and behavioral response to maternal deprivation.
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  • (1 other version)The political theory of possessive individualism: Hobbes to Locke.Crawford Brough Macpherson - 1962 - Oxford,: Clarendon Press. Edited by Frank Cunningham.
    Introduction. The roots of liberal-democratic theory -- Problems of interpretation -- Hobbe : the political obligation of the market. Philosophy and political theory -- Human nature and the state of nature -- Models of society -- Political obligation -- Penetration and limits of Hobbe's political theory -- The Levellers : franchise and freedom. The problem of franchise -- Types of franchise -- The record -- Theoretical implications -- Harrington : the opportunity state. Unexamined ambiguities -- The balance and the gentry (...)
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  • An integral theory of consciousness.Ken Wilber - 1997 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 4 (1):71-92.
    An extensive data search among various types of developmental and evolutionary sequences yielded a ‘four quadrant’ model of consciousness and its development . Each of these dimensions was found to unfold in a sequence of at least a dozen major stages or levels. Combining the four quadrants with the dozen or so major levels in each quadrant yields an integral theory of consciousness that is quite comprehensive in its nature and scope. This model is used to indicate how a general (...)
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  • (1 other version)The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke.Crawford Brough Macpherson - 1962 - Don Mills, Ont.: Oup Canada. Edited by Frank Cunningham.
    This seminal work by political philosopher C.B. Macpherson was first published by the Clarendon Press in 1962, and remains of key importance to the study of liberal-democratic theory half-a-century later. In it, Macpherson argues that the chief difficulty of the notion of individualism that underpins classical liberalism lies in what he calls its "possessive quality" - "its conception of the individual as essentially the proprietor of his own person or capacities, owing nothing to society for them." Under such a conception, (...)
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  • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World.David Abram (ed.) - 1996 - Pantheon.
    Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This is a major work of ecological philosophy that startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception.
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  • Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion.Dacher Keltner & Jonathan Haidt - 2003 - Cognition and Emotion 17 (2):297-314.
    In this paper we present a prototype approach to awe. We suggest that two appraisals are central and are present in all clear cases of awe: perceived vastness, and a need for accommodation, defined as an inability to assimilate an experience into current mental structures. Five additional appraisals account for variation in the hedonic tone of awe experiences: threat, beauty, exceptional ability, virtue, and the supernatural. We derive this perspective from a review of what has been written about awe in (...)
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  • Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events.Daniel J. Simons & Christopher F. Chabris - 1999 - Perception 28 (9):1059-1074.
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  • Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect.Greg Urban - 2010 - University of Texas Press.
    Starting with the post-structuralist idea that truth systems are lodged in discourse, and that discourse varies from society to society, Greg Urban seeks to discover the nature and extent of that variation. His journey to an Amerindian society in which dreams are more prominent than everyday aspects of the sensible world leads him to radically reformulate one of the main problematics of Western thought: the relationship between our sensations of the world and the understandings we form of them. Metaphysical Community (...)
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  • The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science.Harry Collins & Trevor Pinch - 1995 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (2):261-266.
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  • Changing Images of Man.Joseph Center for the Study of Social Policy International), Campbell & Charles F. Kettering Foundation - 1974 - Stanford Research Institute.
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  • Societies of Brains: A Study in the Neuroscience of Love and Hate.Walter J. Freeman - 1995 - Psychology Press.
    First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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  • Religious awe: Potential contributions of negative theology to psychology, "positive" or otherwise.Louise Sundararajan - 2002 - Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 22 (2):174-197.
    A hallmark of Christian mysticism is negative theology, which refers to the school of thought that gives prominence to negation in reference to God. By denying the possibility to name God, negative theology cuts at the very root of our cognitive makeup--the human impulse to name and put things into categories--and thereby situates us "halfway between a 'no longer' and a 'not yet'" , a temporality in which "the past is negated, but...the present is not yet formulated" . The affective (...)
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  • I to we: The role of consciousness transformation in compassion and altruism.Cassandra Vieten, Tina Amorok & Marilyn Mandala Schlitz - 2006 - Zygon 41 (4):915-932.
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  • How collective representations can change the structure of the brain.Richard Turner & C. Whitehead - 2008 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 15 (10-11):43-57.
    Culture not only influences human psychology and perceptions of self, others and reality, it also, in certain contexts, influences the quality and degree of consciousness itself. If the brain gives shape to consciousness, then we would expect culture to have a corresponding impact on the functional anatomy and microstructure of the brain. The concept of 'collective representations', as developed by Durkheim, refers to the often crucial components of human life that have meaningful existence only because we agree that they do-- (...)
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