The Microgenetic Theory of Mind and Brain

Selected Essays in Process Psychology

Jason W. Brown, Denys Zhadiaiev, Paul Stenner

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Routledge
11 December 2024

Philosophy of mind; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology

This book asks where ideas, objects and feelings come from and how they arise via an exploration of the nature of subjective experience and its relation to the world. Seeking an explanation for the experience of subjective duration and the present and, in contrast to the conception of mental events as non-temporal logical solids, it explores a diachronic processual theory founded on psychological data and clinical observation that provides an explanatory “system” of thought adequate to the phenomena it is called on to explain. The author focuses on the intra-psychic sources and nature of subjective experience, with the intent of examining a variety of phenomena from the standpoint of microgenetic theory. The chapters deal with the origins of human subjectivity and the epochal nature of time and duration, change and the relevance of a theory of the mental state to dream, and the waking present. Based on speculative psychology that flows from case studies in neuropsychology and concepts in process philosophy, it advances a theory of mind and brain that brings together previous, fragmentary research studies on this topic.

By: Jason W. Brown
Edited by: Denys Zhadiaiev, Paul Stenner
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781032873848
ISBN 10: 1032873841
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 11 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jason W. Brown is a behavioral neurologist and, for over 30 years, was Clinical Professor of Neurology at New York University Medical Center, USA. Denys Zhadiaiev is a scholar, lecturer, and Associate Professor at Dnipro University of Technology, Ukraine. Paul Stenner is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK.