Böcker av Thomas (University of California Natsoulas

This volume extends Thomas Natsoulas' development of the psychology of consciousness by giving sustained attention to the stream of consciousness and its component 'pulses of experience'. Combining scholarship across psychology, philosophy and cognate fields, Natsoulas highlights surprising connections between the works of leading theorists of consciousness.

Thomas Natsoulas argues that ecological psychology - which proposes that we perceive the one and only existing world itself, including ourselves in it - can incorporate our consciousness stream, our immediate awareness thereof and the normal waking state, which, he argues, is the best general psychosomatic state in enabling perceiving.

A valuable contribution to psychology of consciousness. Each of its six main chapters adopts the perspective of a different concept of consciousness employed in ordinary thought and speech. The author examines the sources of each concept and relates them to relatively recent or contemporary conceptual counterparts still perforce under development.