Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Welton, Donn | Grim, Patrick.
Date
2012-05-01
Keywords
Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Ontology, Phenomenology, Philosophy | Philosophy--Cognitive psychology
Department
Department of Philosophy
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71301
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This thesis aims at constructing an ontology of pre-reflective and reflective modes of consciousness in an attempt to understand how pre-reflective responses to certain stimuli become schematized through reflection. After mapping movements made in phenomenology that allow for the body to be our departure point for analysis, this paper focuses especially on the role that affectivity plays in motivating a reflective act, and how that reflective act may habituate new behaviors over time. To do so, I look to Jeffrey Schwartz's theory and research on his patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and through phenomenological methodology show why his Four-Step Method for overcoming the disorder has ontological grounding. | 51 pages
Recommended Citation
Kohler, Adam, "Re-Schematizing Pre-Reflective Consciousness" (2012). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 507.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/507