The Cortical Predicament - J. N. Findlay on Consciousness (1971)

John Niemeyer Findlay gives a 1971 lecture on consciousness. J.N. Findlay was Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics at Yale University, who studied under Rudolph Carnap and Martin Heidegger. Through analysis of Brentano, Merleau-Ponty, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre, Findlay describes behavioral, phenomenological, and neural aspects of conscious life. He contends that phenomenological and behavioral perspectives both have metaphysical problems. His examination of a cortically mediated conscious life concludes with forms of consciousness that are not cortically mediated. This talk was given at the American University in 1971 as part of the 14th Annual Bishop John F. Hurst Philosophy Lecture series.

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