Portrait of a scholar: Jason Walter Brown
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2012, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
This biography presents a half century of the commitment of Prof. Jason W. Brown, M.D., to the development of neurology, neuropsychology and philosophy of mind. For over 30 years clinical professor of neurology at New York University Medical Center, Jason Brown is best known for his work in neuropsychology and process philosophy, especially time, change and related issues in the philosophy of mind. He is the author of 11 scientific monographs and over 200 peer-reviewed articles in neuropsychology and theory of mind. His most recent book is Love and Other Emotions (2012). The biography also summarizes the main features of microgenetic theory, especially the account of consciousness, of the transition from self to image, act and object, the epochal nature of this transition, and its relation to introspection, imagination and agency. The affinities of microgenetic theory to many aspects of process thought should be evident to readers of this journal, but the theory, which was developed in pathological case studies, rests on a wealth of clinical detail. In brief, the micro-temporal transition from archaic to recent formations (distributed systems) in the phyletic history of the forebrain constitutes the absolute mental state, with consciousness the relation of self to image and/or object. The reader will also find here the overlap of states, the continuity of the core over successive states, and subjective time experience.
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