Between Ourselves: Second Person Issues in the Study of Consciousness

Between Ourselves: Second Person Issues in the Study of Consciousness by Thompson, Professor of Philosophy Evan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780907845140.

The first volume in this series (The View from Within, ed. Francisco Varela and Jonathan Shear) was a study of first-person approaches to the study of consciousness. Second-person I-You relations are central to human life yet have been neglected in consciousness research. This book puts that right, and goes further by including descriptions of animal person-to-person interactions from primatologists Barbara Smuts and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. Other contributions are drawn from fields as diverse as Japanese philosophy and Buddhist studies, neurophysiology, phenomenology and neuropsychology - including clinical studies on autism and face-recognition disorders.