Dreaming : a conceptual framework for philosophy of mind and empirical research / Jennifer Michelle Windt.

"Dreams, conceived as conscious experience or phenomenal states during sleep, offer an important contrast condition for theories of consciousness and the self. Yet, although there is a wealth of empirical research on sleep and dreaming, its potential contribution to consciousness research and p...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Windt, Jennifer Michelle, 1978- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • General introduction : the conceptualization problem of dreaming
  • Dream skepticism, skepticism about dreaming, and the problem of dream experience
  • A short introduction to empirical dream research: history, methodology, and changing theoretical conceptions
  • The methodological background assumptions of scientific dream research
  • Antiskepticism about dreaming and dream reporting: from default assumption to theoretical justification
  • Dreaming as quasi-perceptual experience: the traditional view
  • Dreaming as imaginative experience: the rival view
  • Are dreams subjective experiences, I? : phenomenal selfhood and bodily experiences in dreams
  • Are dreams disembodied experiences? : the role of the body and of the brain in shaping bodily experience in dreams
  • Are dreams subjective experiences, II? : the phenomenology of thinking and the problem of dream belief
  • Are dreams deceptive experiences? : deception, delusion, and insight
  • From oneiragogia to full-fledged dreaming : the immersive-spatiotemporal-hallucination model of dreaming
  • Relocating dreams on the conceptual map : consequences and perspectives for future research.