Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Summary and Scope

      • Norman Sieroka

      Pages 3-11

   3. Methodology: Re-thinking Leibniz and Husserl

      • Norman Sieroka

      Pages 12-49

3. Perception

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. Leibniz on Unconscious Perception

      • Norman Sieroka

      Pages 53-86

   3. Recent (Empirical) Support for a Leibnizian Approach

      • Norman Sieroka

      Pages 87-105

   4. From Unconscious to Conscious Perception, Following Leibniz

      • Norman Sieroka

      Pages 106-119

4. Intermezzo

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Auditory Perception and Time

      • Norman Sieroka

      Pages 123-149

5. Time

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Phenomenological Re-assessments of Leibniz

      • Norman Sieroka

      Pages 153-167

   3. A Leibniz-Husserlian Approach on Time Consciousness

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      Pages 168-203

   4. Perceptual Time and Physical Time: Expression Instead of Reduction

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      Pages 204-239

6. Epilogue

   1. Epilogue

      • Norman Sieroka

      Pages 240-241

7. Back Matter

   Pages 242-301

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This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory perception and making new and updated use of Leibniz and Husserl, it investigates the transition from unconscious to conscious states, especially with regard to the constitution of phenomenal time.

• Leibniz
• Husserl
• neurophenomenology
• phenomenology
• time
• time consciousness
• temporal awareness
• subliminal perception
• unconscious/conscious (perception)
• auditory research
• consciousness
• Edmund Husserl
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• metaphor
• proposition
• reduction

“Sieroka has developed a kind of empirically-informed Husserlian-Leibnizian parallelist account of perceptual and physiological phenomena. … he develops his views with great rigor, and in many passages brings to bear his perspective on current debates, attesting to the current relevance of his account. The book is very clearly written, rendering the Leibnizian and Husserlian views accessible to a broad philosophical and scientific readership, and providing a framework to organize one’s thoughts on the topics of perception and time.” (Kristjan Laasik, Phenomenological Reviews, reviews.ophen.org, December, 2015)    

Norman Sieroka received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, working in auditory research and on the neurophysiology of time perception. He earned an M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and both a Ph.D. and Habilitation in Philosophy at the ETH Zurich, where he is currently employed as a senior researcher.

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