4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British philosopher who wrote Art and Its Objects and Painting as an Art — developing the theory of 'seeing-in' (the experience of seeing a depicted object in a painted surface) and integrating psychoanalytic theory with philosophy of mind and aesthetics.
Philosophical metaphysical position — holding that reality is fundamentally mental, mind-dependent, or spiritual — that matter as naively conceived does not exist independently of mind or experience — ranging from Berkeley's subjective idealism to Kant's transcendental idealism to Hegel's absolute idealism to contemporary analytic idealism (Bernardo Kastrup).
Philosophical metaphysical position — holding that only matter (or physical processes) ultimately exists — that mind, consciousness, and all mental phenomena are either identical to, reducible to, or fully explicable by physical (brain) processes — the dominant metaphysical assumption of modern science and analytic philosophy.
Philosophical position — holding that consciousness, experience, or proto-consciousness is a fundamental feature of all reality, not something that emerges solely in biological organisms — currently experiencing a major revival in analytic philosophy of mind as an alternative to physicalism and dualism.