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The work develops methodological tools for re-thinking both thinkers, focusing on unconscious perception, non-propositional (subliminal) processing, and the transition from unconscious to conscious experience via attention and apperception. It connects perceptual time to auditory perception, compares phenomenological analyses with neuroscience, and articulates expression-based relations between mental and physical time orders.","Leibniz, Husserl, and the Brain  \nLeibniz, Husserl, and the Brain  \nNorman Sieroka  \n© Norman Sieroka 2015  \nAll rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.  \nAny person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nFirst published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN  \nPalgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.  \nPalgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.  \nPalgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.  \nPalgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries  \nISBN: 978–1–137–45455–3  \nThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sieroka, Norman.  \nLeibniz, Husserl, and the brain / Norman Sieroka, Senior Research Fellow, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.  \npages cm  \nISBN 978–1–137–45455–3 (hardback)  \n1. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646–1716. 2. Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938. 3. Phenomenology. 4. Perception (Philosophy) 5. Auditory perception. 6. Neurophysiology. I. Title.  \nB2598.S54 2014  \n121􀀂 .34—dc23 2014037806  \nFor those who matter most:  \nMudders, Vadders, Pia, Monski, Tale  \nContents  \nList of Figures ix  \nAcknowledgments x  \nList of Abbreviations and Conventions xi  \nPart I Introduction  \n1 Summary and Scope 3  \n1.1 Summary of content 4  \n1.2 Relevance and contribution to contemporary  \nphilosophy 8  \n2 Methodology: Re-thinking Leibniz and Husserl 12  \n2.1 Gaining orientation by re-thinking Leibniz 12  \n2.2 Extrapolations, syntactic metaphors, and  \nexplications 19  \n2.3 Phenomenology of (unconscious?) perception 29  \n2.4 Non-propositionality of (subliminal) perception 41  \nPart II Perception  \n3 Leibniz on Unconscious Perception 53  \n3.1 Monads and their perceptual activity 54  \n3.2 Leibniz on perception as ‘expression’ 58  \n3.3 Leibniz on unnoticeable and unnoticed  \nperception 68  \n3.4 Appetites, volition, and freedom 78  \n4 Recent (Empirical) Support for a Leibnizian  \nApproach 87  \n4.1 Contemporary evidence for unconscious  \nperception 87  \n4.2 Leibniz’s principles of physics and perception 95  \n4.3 Corroboration of the pre-established harmony 98  \n4.4 Case study: a Leibnizian interpretation of  \nLibet’s experiment 102  \nviii Contents  \n5 From Unconscious to Conscious Perception, Following Leibniz 106  \n5.1 Transitions in perception: analogies from exact science 107  \n5.2 A threshold in distinctness 110  \n5.3 Leibniz on attention, apperception, and reflection 115  \nPart III Intermezzo  \n6 Auditory Perception and Time 123  \n6.1 Manifestations of sounds and their expressive  \nrelationships 123  \n6.2 Hearing (and) time on different scales 128  \nPart IV Time  \n7 Phenomenological Re-assessments of Leibniz 153  \n7.1 Intentionality, adumbrations, moments, and intuition 154  \n7.2 Simple reflection and immediate memory 162  \n8 A Leibniz-Husserlian","cbCaifEfqJ57j48U","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifEfqJ57j48U","pdf",5527435,3,1,318,"English","en",105,"# Part I 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