Mind World

This collection explores the structure of consciousness and its place in the world or inversely the structure of the world and the place of consciousness in it. Amongst the topics covered are: the phenomenological aspects of experience (inner awareness self-awareness) dependencies between experience and the world (the role of the body in experience the role of culturally formed background ideas) and the basic ontological categories found in the world at large (unity state-of-affairs connectedness dependence and intentionality). Developing ideas drawn from historical figures such as Descartes Husserl Aristotle and Whitehead the essays together demonstrate the interdependence of ontology and phenomenology and its significance for the philosophy of mind.