Leibniz, Husserl, and the Brain

Abstract

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Summary and Scope 1.1. Summary of Content 1.2. Relevance and Contribution to Contemporary Philosophy 2. Methodology: Re-Thinking Leibniz and Husserl 2.1. Gaining Orientation by Re-thinking Leibniz 2.2. Extrapolations, Syntactic Metaphors, and Explications 2.3. Phenomenology of (Unconscious?) Perception 2.4. Non-propositionality of (Subliminal) Perception PART II: PERCEPTION 3. Leibniz on Unconscious Perception 3.1. Monads and their Perceptual Activity 3.2. Leibniz on Perception as 'Expression' 3.3. Leibniz on Unnoticeable and Unnoticed Perception 3.4. Appetites, Volition, and Freedom 4. Recent (Empirical) Support for a Leibnizian Approach 4.1. Contemporary Evidence for Unconscious Perception 4.2. Leibniz's Principles of Physics and Perception 4.3. Corroboration of the Pre-established Harmony 4.4. Case Study: a Leibnizian Interpretation of Libet's Experiment 5. From Unconscious to Conscious Perception Following Leibniz 5.1. Transitions in Perception: Analogies from Exact Science 5.2. A Threshold in Distinctness 5.3. Leibniz on Attention, Apperception, and Reflection PART III: INTERMEZZO 6. Auditory Perception and Time 6.1. Manifestations of Sounds and their Expressive Relationships 6.2. Hearing (and) Time on Different Scales PART IV: TIME 7. Phenomenological Re-Assessments of Leibniz 7.1. Intentionality, Adumbrations, Moments, and Intuition 7.2. Simple Reflection and Immediate Memory 8. A Leibniz-Husserlian Approach on Time Consciousness 8.1. Husserl on Time Consciousness 8.2. Relations to Leibniz's Approach 8.3. Repercussions between Phenomenology and Neuroscience 9. Perceptual Time and Physical Time: Expression Instead of Reduction 9.1. Minds, Bodies, Persons 9.2. Tensed and Tenseless Orders of Time 9.3. Phenomenal Physical Time? Naturalized Perceptual Time? 9.4. Temporal Orders Expressing Each Other