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Dreaming : A Conceptual Framework for Philosophy of Mind and Empirical Research.

Windt, Jennifer M.

Dreaming : A Conceptual Framework for Philosophy of Mind and Empirical Research. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (825 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction: The Conceptualizatin Problem of Dreaming -- Methodology -- Overview of the Chapters -- 1 Dream Skepticism, Skepticism about Dreaming, and the Problem of Dream Experience -- 1.1 The Background Assumptions behind Cartesian Dream . . . -- 1.2 Norman Malcolm's Denial of Dream Experience -- 1.3 In Defense of Dream Experience: Malcolm's Critics -- 1.4 Taking Stock: Toward an Alternative Account of the Problem of . . . -- 1.5 Conclusions -- 2 A Short Introduction to Empirical Dream Research: History, Methodology. . . -- 2.1 Changing Conceptions of Sleep and Dreaming -- 2.2 The Refinement of Methods and Proliferation of Rival Theories -- 2.3 Conclusions -- 3 The Methodological Background Assumptions of Scientific Dream . . . -- 3.1 Studying Dreaming in the Sleep Laboratory: Polysomnograpy and Timed . . . -- 3.2 Studying Sleep without Studying Dreaming: Neuroimaging . . . -- 3.3 Studying Dreaming without Studying Sleep: Exclusively . . . -- 3.4 Studying Dreaming through Sleep Behavior I: Sleep Disorders -- 3.5 Studying Dreaming through Sleep Behavior II: Lucid Dreams -- 3.6 Studying Dreaming through Its Losses: Lesion Studies -- 3.7 Studying Dreaming without Studying Dream Reports? . . . -- 3.8 Conclusions -- 4 Antiskepticism about Dreaming and Dream Reporting: From Default . . . -- 4.1 Inference to the Best Explanation as a Response to the Skeptic -- 4.2 Inference to the Best Explanation at Work: Toward an . . . -- 4.3 Lessons from the Debate on Dream Color: From . . . -- 4.4 Transparency and Reportability Restricted: . . . -- 4.5 Antiskepticism about Dream Reporting and the Debate . . . -- 4.6 Conclusions -- 5 Dreaming as Quasi-Perceptual Experience: The Traditional View -- 5.1 The Philosophical Literature -- 5.2 The Empirical and Psycholog- ical Literature -- 5.3 Conclusions. 6 Dreaming as Imaginative Experience: The Rival View -- 6.1 The Philosophical Literature -- 6.2 The Empirical and Psychological Literature -- 6.3 Conclusions -- 7 Are Dreams Subjective Experiences (I)? Phenomenal Selfhood and . . . -- 7.1 The Bodily Duplicate Hypothesis and the No-Body Hypothesis -- 7.2 A Review of Bodily Experiences in the Dream . . . -- 7.3 A Conceptual Framework for Describing Phenomenal . . . -- 7.4 Taking Stock: The Weak- . . . -- 7.5 Conclusions -- 8 Are Dreams Disembodied Experiences? The Role of the Body and of the . . . -- 8.1 The Functional-Disembodiment Hypothesis -- 8.2 The Bodily Sources of Dreaming -- 8.3 The Neuronal Basis of Bodily Experience in Dreams -- 8.4 Taking Stock: The Weak- . . . -- 8.5 Conclusions -- 9 Are Dreams Subjective Experiences (II)? The Phenomen- ology of . . . -- 9.1 The Doxastic-Duplicate Hypothesis and the No-Belief . . . -- 9.2 The Cogitative-Duplicate Hypothesis and the . . . -- 9.3 A Conceptual Framework for Describing the Cogitative . . . -- 9.4 The Neuronal Basis of the Cogitative Dream Self -- 9.5 Taking Stock (I): The Weak- . . . -- 9.6 Taking Stock (II): The Problem of Dream Belief Revisited . . . -- 9.7 Conclusions -- 10 Are Dreams Deceptive Exper- iences? Decep- tion, Delusion, and Insight -- 10.1 The Deception Hypothesis and the No-Deception Hypothesis -- 10.2 The Delusion Hypothesis and the Insight Hypothesis -- 10.3 A Conceptual Framework for Describing Different . . . -- 10.4 Taking Stock (I): Reassessing the Skeptical Threat -- 10.5 Taking Stock (II): Dreams, Delusions, and Insight -- 10.6 Conclusions -- 11 From Oneiragogia to Full-Fledged Dreaming: The Immersive- . . . -- 11.1 From the Phenomenal Core of Dreaming to the . . . -- 11.2 Oneiragogia: Sleep - Wake Transitions and the Gradual . . . -- 11.3 Objections to the Immersive- . . . -- 11.4 Conclusions. 12 Relocating Dreams on the Conceptual Map: Consequences and Perspectives . . . -- 12.1 Dreams, Amodal Agent Models, and Illusory Self-Location -- 12.2 Immersive Virtual Reality, Substitutional Reference Frames, and . . . -- 12.3 Wandering Minds, Predictive Brains, and . . . -- 12.4 Reflections on the Functions of Dreaming -- 12.5 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary consciousness studies.

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