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    Questioning Consciousness: The Interplay of Imagery, Cognition, and Emotion in the Human Brain.Ralph D. Ellis - 1995 - Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
    ... Geoffrey Underwood (University of Nottingham) Francisco Varela (CREA, Ecole Polytechnique. Paris) Volume 2 Ralph D. Ellis Questioning Consciousness ...
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    Curious Emotions: Roots of Consciousness and Personality in Motivated Action.Ralph D. Ellis - 2005 - Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    Emotion drives all cognitive processes, largely determining their qualitative feel, their structure, and in part even their content.
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    An Ontology of Consciousness.Ralph D. Ellis - 1986 - Hingham, MA, USA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    The object of this study is to find a coherent theoretical approach to three problems which appear to interrelate in complex ways: (1) What is the ontological status of consciousness? (2) How can there be 'un conscious,' 'prereflective' or 'self-alienated' consciousness? And (3) Is there a 'self' or 'ego' formed by means of the interrelation of more elementary states of consciousness? The motivation for combining such a diversity of difficult questions is that we often learn more by looking at interrelations (...)
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    How the mind uses the brain: to move the body and image the universe.Ralph D. Ellis - 2010 - Chicago, Ill.: Open Court. Edited by Natika Newton.
    Introduction: Searching for the covert agent of consciousness -- The devil's pact (or, why the hard problem is now so hard) -- Action at the macro level : an agent-based theory of intentionality -- Action imagery and representation of the external world -- Do we need an emergency metaphysician? : action versus reaction at the micro level -- Herding neurons : the causal structure of self-organizing systems -- The paradoxes of phenomenal consciousness -- The self-organizing imagination : addressing the mind-body (...)
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    Three paradoxes of phenomenal consciousness: Bridging the explanatory gap.Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton - 1998 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 5 (4):419-42.
    Any physical explanation of consciousness seems to leave unresolved the ‘explanatory gap': Isn't it conceivable that all the elements in that explanation could occur, with the same information processing outcomes as in a conscious process, but in the absence of consciousness? E.g. any digital computational process could occur in the absence of consciousness. To resolve this dilemma, we propose a biological-process-oriented physiological- phenomenological characterization of consciousness that addresses three ‘paradoxical’ qualities seemingly incompatible with the empirical realm: The dual location of (...)
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    Toward a reconciliation of liberalism and communitarianism.Ralph D. Ellis - 1991 - Journal of Value Inquiry 25 (1):55-64.
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    The Moral Psychology of Internal Conflict: Value, Meaning, and the Enactive Mind.Ralph D. Ellis - 2017 - Cambridge University Press.
    Pushing back against the potential trivialization of moral psychology that would reduce it to emotional preferences, this book takes an enactivist, self-organizational, and hermeneutic approach to internal conflict between a basic exploratory drive motivating the search for actual truth, and opposing incentives to confabulate in the interest of conformity, authoritarianism, and cognitive dissonance, which often can lead to harmful worldviews. The result is a new possibility that ethical beliefs can have truth value and are not merely a result of ephemeral (...)
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    Afferent-efferent connections and ?neutrality-modifications? in perceptual and imaginative consciousness.Ralph D. Ellis - 1990 - Man and World 23 (1):23-33.
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    A thought experiment concerning universal expansion.Ralph D. Ellis - 1992 - Philosophia 21 (3-4):257-275.
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    Existentialism and the demonstrability of ethical theories.Ralph D. Ellis - 1982 - Journal of Value Inquiry 16 (3):165-175.
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    Factual Adequacy and Comparative Coherentism in Ethical Theory.Ralph D. Ellis - 1988 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 26 (1):57-81.
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  12. Implications of inattentional blindness for "enactive" theories of consciousness.Ralph D. Ellis - 2001 - Brain and Mind 2 (3):297-322.
    Mack and Rock show evidence that no consciousperception occurs without a prior attentiveact. Subjects already executing attention taskstend to neglect visible elements extraneous tothe attentional task, apparently lacking evenbetter-than-chance ``implicit perception,''except in certain cases where the unattendedstimulus is a meaningful word or has uniquepre-tuned salience similar to that ofmeaningful words. This is highly consistentwith ``enactive'' notions that consciousnessrequires selective attention via emotional subcortical and limbic motivationalactivation as it influences anterior attentionmechanisms. Occipital activation withoutconsciousness suggests that motivated search,enacted through the organism's (...)
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    The dance form of the eyes: what cognitive science can learn from art.Ralph D. Ellis - 1999 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 6 (6-7):6-7.
    Art perception offers action affordances for the self-generated movement of the eyes, the mind, and the emotions; thus some scenes are ’easy to look at', and evoke different kinds of moods depending on what kind of affordances they present for the eyes, the brain, and the action schemas that further the dynamical self-organizing patterns of activity toward which the organism tends, as reflected in its ongoing emotional life. Art can do this only because perception is active rather than passive, and (...)
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  14. Enactivism and the New Teleology: Reconciling the Warring Camps.Ralph D. Ellis - 2014 - Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies (2):173-198.
    Enactivism has the potential to provide a sense of teleology in purpose-directed action, but without violating the principles of efficient causation. Action can be distinguished from mere reaction by virtue of the fact that some systems are self-organizing. Self-organization in the brain is reflected in neural plasticity, and also in the primacy of motivational processes that initiate the release of neurotransmitters necessary for mental and conscious functions, and which guide selective attention processes. But in order to flesh out the enactivist (...)
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    In what sense is “Rationality” a criterion for emotional self-awareness?☆.Ralph D. Ellis - 2008 - Consciousness and Cognition 17 (3):972-973.
  16. Integrating Neuroscience and Phenomenology in the Study of Consciousness.Ralph D. Ellis - 1999 - Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 30 (1):18-47.
    Phenomenology and physiology become commensurable through a self-organizational physiology and an "enactive" view of consciousness. Self-organizing processes appropriate and replace their own needed substrata, rather than merely being caused by interacting components. Biochemists apply this notion to the living/nonliving distinction. An enactive approach sees consciousness as actively executed by an agent rather than passively reacting to stimuli. Perception does not result from mere stimulation of brain areas by sensory impulses; unless motivated organismic purposes first anticipate and "look for" emotionally relevant.stimuli, (...)
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    Phenomenology-Friendly Neuroscience: The Return To Merleau-Ponty As Psychologist.Ralph D. Ellis - 2006 - Human Studies 29 (1):33-55.
    This paper reports on the Kuhnian revolution now occurring in neuropsychology that is finally supportive of and friendly to phenomenology — the "enactive" approach to the mind-body relation, grounded in the notion of self-organization, which is consistent with Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on virtually every point. According to the enactive approach, human minds understand the world by virtue of the ways our bodies can act relative to it, or the ways we can imagine acting. This requires that action be distinguished from (...)
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    Coherence and Verification in Ethics.Ralph D. Ellis - 1991 - Upa.
    This book is an attempt to come to grips with problems of the epistemological basis of ethical beliefs by building on criticisms of approaches to this problem which have been attempted in the recent past. Because of the extensive discussions and criticism of these various alternatives, the book is useful to all who are concerned with the epistemology of ethics.
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  19. The roles of imagery and metaemotion in deliberate choice and moral psychology.Ralph D. Ellis - 2005 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 12 (8-10):140-157.
    Understanding the role of emotion in reasoned, deliberate choice -- particularly moral experience -- requires three components: Meta-emotion, allowing self-generated voluntary imagery and/or narratives that in turn trigger first-order emotions we may not already have, but would like to have for moral or other reasons. Hardwired mammalian altruistic sentiments, necessary but not sufficient for moral motivation. Neuropsychological grounding for what Hume called 'love of truth,' with two important effects in humans: generalization of altruistic feelings beyond natural sympathy for conspecifics; and (...)
     
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    A Critique of Concepts of Non-Sufficient Causation.Ralph D. Ellis - 1992 - Philosophical Inquiry 14 (1-2):1-10.
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    Efferent brain processes and the enactive approach to consciousness.Ralph D. Ellis - 2000 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (4):40-50.
    [opening paragraph]: Nicholas Humphrey argues persuasively that consciousness results from active and efferent rather than passive and afferent functions. These arguments contribute to the mounting recent evidence that consciousness is inseparable from the motivated action planning of creatures that in some sense are organismic and agent-like rather than passively mechanical and reactive in the way that digital computers are. Newton calls this new approach the ‘action theory of understanding'; Varela et al. dubbed it the ‘enactive’ view of consciousness. It was (...)
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  22. Just Results: Ethical Foundations for Policy Analysis.Ralph D. Ellis - 1999 - The Personalist Forum 15 (1):196-200.
     
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    (1 other version)Ray Jackendoff's phenomenology of language as a refutation of the 'appendage' theory of consciousness.Ralph D. Ellis - 1996 - Pragmatics and Cognition 4 (1):125-137.
    Since Jackendoff has shown that language facilitates abstract and complex thought by making possible subtle manipulations of the focus of attention, and since the kind of attention relevant here is attention to aspects of intentional objects in conscious awareness, it follows that the abstract and complex thinking that language facilitates owes much to the working of a conscious process. This, however, conflicts with Jackendoff's view of consciousness as something which does not play a direct part in thinking, but is only (...)
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    Three arguments against causal indeterminacy.Ralph D. Ellis - 2004 - Philosophia 31 (3-4):331-344.
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    Three elements of causation: Biconditionality, asymmetry, and experimental manipulability.Ralph D. Ellis - 2001 - Philosophia 28 (1-4):103-125.
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    The interdependence of consciousness and emotion.Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton - 2000 - Consciousness and Emotion 1 (1):1-10.
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    Fairness and the etiology of criminal behavior.Ralph D. Ellis - 1987 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 13 (2):175-194.
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    Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World: Focusing at the Existential Level.Ralph D. Ellis - 2023 - Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
    Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.
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  29. A theoretical model of the role of the cerebellum in cognition, attention and consciousness.Ralph D. Ellis - 2001 - Consciousness and Emotion 2 (2):300-309.
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    Can dynamical systems explain mental causation?Ralph D. Ellis - 2001 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 22 (3):311-334.
    Dynamical systems promise to elucidate a notion of top–down causation without violating the causal closure of physical events. This approach is particularly useful for the problem of mental causation. Since dynamical systems seek out, appropriate, and replace physical substrata needed to continue their structural pattern, the system is autonomous with respect to its components, yet the components constitute closed causal chains. But how can systems have causal power over their substrates, if each component is sufficiently caused by other components? Suppose (...)
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    Consciousness and Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice, and Selective Perception.Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton - 2005 - John Benjamins.
    The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction.
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    Consciousness, self-organization, and the process-substratum relation: Rethinking nonreductive physicalism.Ralph D. Ellis - 2000 - Philosophical Psychology 13 (2):173-190.
    Knowing only what is empirically knowable can't by itself entail knowledge of what consciousness "is like." But if dualism is to be avoided, the question arises: how can a process be completely empirically unobservable when all of its components are completely observable? The recently emerging theory of self-organization offers resources with which to resolve this problem: Consciousness can be an empirically unobservable process because the emotions motivating attention are experienced only from the perspective of the one whose phenomenal states are (...)
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    Emotional authenticity as a central basis of moral psychology.Ralph D. Ellis - 2009 - In Mikko Salmela & Verena Mayer (eds.), Emotions, Ethics, and Authenticity. John Benjamins. pp. 5--179.
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  34. Ethical consequences of recent work on incompatibilism.Ralph D. Ellis - 1991 - Philosophical Inquiry 13 (3-4):22-42.
     
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    Foundations of Civic Engagement: Rethinking Social and Political Philosophy.Ralph D. Ellis, Norman J. Fischer & James B. Sauer - 2006 - Upa.
    Foundations of Civic Engagement is a comprehensive survey and reassessment of the entire field of social and political philosophy. Suitable for use as a primary text for courses on political thought, this book explores the basic arguments of the most important historical and contemporary figures—including Ancient Greek, modern and contemporary theories of communitarianism, social contract, feminism, postmodernsim, Marxism, and theories of communicative actions—and offers a thematic critique and integration of these philosophies.
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    Generating predictions from a dynamical systems emotion theory.Ralph D. Ellis - 2005 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (2):202-203.
    Lewis's dynamical systems emotion theory continues a tradition including Merleau-Ponty, von Bertallanfy, and Aristotle. Understandably for a young theory, Lewis's new predictions do not follow strictly from the theory; thus their failure would not disconfirm the theory, nor their success confirm it – especially given that other self-organizational approaches to emotion (e.g., those of Ellis and of Newton) may not be inconsistent with these same predictions.
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  37. Irwin Goldstein.Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton & Peter Zachar - 2002 - Consciousness and Emotion 3 (1):21-33.
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    Integrating the physiological and phenomenological dimensions of affect and motivation.Ralph D. Ellis - 2000 - In The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, Affect and Self-Organization. John Benjamins. pp. 16--1.
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    Love and the Abyss: An Essay on Finitude and Value.Ralph D. Ellis - 2004 - Open Court Publishing.
    Ellis (philosophy, Claark Atlanta U.) describes a number of different kindsf abnormalities that result from the detrimental effects of narcissism onhe ability to love. Developing the notion of a culture of narcissism firstroposed by Christopher Lasch, he presents a theory of the role played byove in human attempts to grapple with ontologica.
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  40. Luc Faucher and Christine Tappolet.Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton & Peter Zachar - 2002 - Consciousness and Emotion 3 (2):105-144.
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    Love, Religion, and the Psychology of Inspiration.Ralph D. Ellis - 2008 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 15 (2):6-40.
    While much of contemporary psychology preserves the legacy of behaviorism and consummatory drive-reductionism, this paper by contrast grounds itself in an "enactivist" approach to emotion and motivation, and goes on to consider the implications of this view for the psychology of inspiration, especially as applied to love and religion. Emotions are not responses to stimuli, but expressions of an active system. The tendency of complex systems is to prefer higher-energy basins of attraction rather than settle into satiation and dull comfort. (...)
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    Phenomenotogy and the Empiricist Criteria for Meaning.Ralph D. Ellis - 1980 - Philosophy Today 24 (2):146-152.
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    Prereflective consciousness and the process of symbolization.Ralph D. Ellis - 1980 - Man and World 13 (2):173-191.
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    Phenomenological psychology and the empirical observation of consciousness.Ralph D. Ellis - 1983 - International Philosophical Quarterly 23 (2):191-204.
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    (1 other version)Purposeful processes, personalism, and the contemporary natural and cognitive sciences.Ralph D. Ellis - 1997 - Personalist Forum 13 (1):49-67.
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    Running and the Paradox of Suffering.Ralph D. Ellis - 2021 - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 5 (4):8-20.
    What motivates the voluntary suffering of training for a long-distance run – or any other difficult athletic skill? Long-term pleasure cannot adequately explain this seemingly masochistic activity. On the contrary, I argue that pleasure, or “reinforcement,” is not the only ultimate motivator of behavior. Each of the emotion systems defines its own intrinsic values, including an innate “play” system and an innate “exploratory drive” that is included in what neuropsychologist Jaak Panksepp calls the “SEEKING system” of the emotional brain. Panksepp’s (...)
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    Spiritual Partnership and the Affirmation of the Value of Being.Ralph D. Ellis - 2006 - The Pluralist 1 (3):8 - 62.
  48. The ambiguity of 'in here/out there' talk: In what sense is perception 'out in the world'?Ralph D. Ellis - 2005 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 12 (6):82-87.
     
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    The Biological Basis of Ethical Motivation.Ralph D. Ellis - 2016 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 23 (2):4-11.
    Naturalism does not necessarily imply an exclusive emphasis on the notoriously fickle empathic emotions. Contemporary neurobiological emotion research strongly suggests that the search for moral meaning, like any other everyday truth-seeking activity, is motivated not only by altruistic instincts or social conditioning, but also and more importantly it is motivated by a basic exploratory drive that makes us want to know what the truth is, independently of whether we happen to feel altruistic or nurturing in a particular instance. This innate (...)
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    The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, Affect and Self-Organization.Ralph D. Ellis (ed.) - 2000 - John Benjamins.
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