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Ullin T. Place (1924-2000)

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References of Place (2004). From mystical experience to biological consciousness. A pilgrim's progress?

Austin, J. L. (1962a). Sense and sensibilia (Reconstructed by G. J. Warnock). Oxford University Press.
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Ayer, A. J. (1936/1946). Language, Truth and Logic (2nd Edition). Gollancz.
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Boring, E. G. (1933). The Physical Dimension of Consciousness. Century.
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Cowey, A., & Stoerig, P. (1995). Blindsight in monkeys. Nature, 373(6511), 247-249.
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Grensted, L.W. (1930). God. A Study of the Implications of Recent Psychology for Religious Belief and Practice: The Bampton Lectures for 1930. Longmans.
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Inge, W. R. (1899). Christian Mysticism. Considered in Eight Lectures Delivered before the University of Oxford: The Bampton Lectures for 1899. Methuen.
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Inge, W. R. (1918). The Philosophy of Plotinus: The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews 1917-1918 (2 Vols). Longmans, Green.
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Inge, W. R. (1927/1935). Protestantism (Revised Edition). Nelson.
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Patmore, C. K. D. (1877). The Unknown Eros and Other Odes. George Bell.
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Patmore, C. K. D. (1895). The Rod, the Root and the Flower. George Bell.
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Phelips, V. (Philip Vivian) (1906/1934) . The Churches and Modern Thought: An Inquiry into the Grounds of Unbelief and an Appeal for Candour (Second Edition in the Thinker's Library). Watts.
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Place, U. T. (1954). The concept of heed. British Journal of Psychology, 45, 243-55. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1954.tb01252.x
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Download: 1954 The Concept of Heed.pdf  1954 1999 The Concept of Heed - revised version.pdf (with a new introduction; not published)

Place, U. T. (1956). Is consciousness a brain process? British Journal of Psychology, 47, 44-50.
[Abstract]The thesis that consciousness is a process in the brain is put forward as a reasonable scientific hypothesis, not to be dismissed on logical grounds alone. The conditions under which two sets of observations are treated as observations of the same process, rather than as observations of two independent correlated processes, are discussed. It is suggested that we can identify consciousness with a given pattern of brain activity, if we can explain the subject's introspective observations by reference to the brain processes with which they are correlated. It is argued that the problem of providing a physiological explanation of introspective observations is made to seem more difficult than it really is by the `phenomenological fallacy', the mistaken idea that descriptions of the appearances of things are descriptions of the actual state of affairs in a mysterious internal environment.
Keywords: consciousness, mind-brain identity theory, phenomenological fallacy
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The revised version from 1997, see download (below), is not published and incorporates revisions proposed in Place (1997g). Publications citing Place (1956): See publications citing 'Is conscious a brain process?'
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Download: 1956 Is Consciousness a Brain Process.pdf  1956 1997 Is Consciousness a Brain Process - revised version.pdf

Place, U. T. (1989a). Low claim assertions. In J. Heil (Ed.), Cause, mind and reality: Essays honoring C. B. Martin (pp. 121-135). Kluwer. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-9734-2_9
Keywords: colours, mind-brain identity theory, introspection, phenomenological fallacy, topic neutrality
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Download: 1989a Low claim assertions.pdf

Ryle, G. (1949). The Concept of Mind. Hutchinson.
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Smart, J. J. C. (1959). Sensations and brain processes. Philosophical Review, LXVIII, 141-156.
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A revised version with new references appeared in V. C. Chappell (Ed.) (1962), The philosophy of mind. Prentice-Hall. Later reprints are of this version.
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Stapledon, O. (1939). Philosophy and Living (2 Vols). Penguin.
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Underhill, E. (1911/1930). Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (12th Edition). Methuen.
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Von Hügel, Baron F. (1908). The Mystical Element in Religion: As Studied in St. Catherine of Genoa and her Friends. Dent.
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Weiskrantz, L. (1986). Blindsight: A Case Study and Implications Clarendon Press.
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Wittgenstein, L. (1953). Philosophical Investigations (English translation by G. E. M. Anscombe). Basil Blackwell.
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