{"product_id":"consciousness-in-action-s-l-hurley-9780674007963","title":"Consciousness in Action","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this important book, Susan Hurley sheds new light on consciousness by examining its relationships to action from various angles. She assesses the role of agency in the unity of a conscious perspective, and argues that perception and action are more deeply interdependent than we usually assume. A standard view conceives perception as input from world to mind and action as output from mind to world, with the serious business of thought in between. Hurley criticizes this picture, and considers how the interdependence of perceptual experience and agency at the personal level (of mental contents and norms) may emerge from the subpersonal level (of underlying causal processes and complex dynamic feedback systems). Her two-level view has wide implications, for topics that include self-consciousness, the modularity of mind, and the relations of mind to world. The self no longer lurks hidden somewhere between perceptual input and behavioral output, but reappears out in the open, embodied and embedded in its environment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHurley traces these themes from Kantian and Wittgensteinian arguments through to intriguing recent work in neuropsychology and in dynamic systems approaches to the mind, providing a bridge from mainstream philosophy to work in other disciplines. \u003ci\u003eConsciousness in Action\u003c\/i\u003e is unique in the range of philosophical and scientific work it draws on, and in the deep criticism it offers of centuries-old habits of thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. L. Hurley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674007964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674007963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.04w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/02\/2002 pg. 31","brand":"S. L. Hurley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946896687359,"sku":"9780674007963","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_95f0bf41-99f9-4e4c-a1bd-cd7997d98279.jpg?v=1681515652","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/consciousness-in-action-s-l-hurley-9780674007963","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}