Dreaming Souls

Sleep, Dreams and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind

Flanagan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2001
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-514235-8 (ISBN)

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In this text, the author provides both an accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a theory about the nature and function of dreaming. Flanagan argues that while sleep has a clear biological function and adaptive value, dreams are merely side effects.

In Dreaming Souls, Owen Flanagan provides both an accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming. Flanagan argues that while sleep has a clear biological function and adaptive value, dreams are merely side effects, 'free-riders', irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. But dreams are hardly unimportant. Indeed, Flanagan argues that dreams are self-expressive, the result of our need to find or create meaning, even when we are sleeping.

Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Professor of Psychology-Experimental, and Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University. He is the author of The Science of Mind, Consciousness Reconsidered, Varieties of Moral Personality, and Self Expressions (OUP), and is Series Editor of the Philosophy of Mind Series, OUP.

Acknowledgments
Prologue: "To Sleep: Perchance to Dream"
1: Heart Throbs
2: The Dreaming Mind
3: Sleepy Heads
4: Dreams: The Spandrels of Sleep
5: Self-Expression in Dreams
6: Philosophical Perplexities
Epilogue: Here Comes the Sun
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.6.2001
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-19-514235-7 / 0195142357
ISBN-13	978-0-19-514235-8 / 9780195142358
Zustand	Neuware