Ralph D. Ellis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ralph D. Ellis is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2352-099X
Categorical versus Dimensional Models of Affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell
Edited by Peter Zachar and Ralph D. Ellis
One of the most important theoretical and empirical issues in the scholarly study of emotion is whether there is a correct list of “basic” types of affect or whether all affective states are better modeled as a combination of locations on shared underlying dimensions. Many thinkers have written on… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 7] 2012. vi, 350 pp.
Curious Emotions: Roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action
Ralph D. Ellis
Emotion drives all cognitive processes, largely determining their qualitative feel, their structure, and in part even their content. Action-initiating centers deep in the emotional brain ground our understanding of the world by enabling us to imagine how we could act relative to it, based on… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 61] 2005. viii, 238 pp.
Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception
Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton
The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction." Enactive emotional processes are not merely the recipients of information or the passive victims of input and learning. The organism first is engaged in an ongoing, complex pattern of… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 1] 2005. xii, 330 pp.
Affective Qualia and The Subjective Dimension
Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton
Special issue of Consciousness & Emotion 2:1 (2001) vi, 188 pp.
The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, affect and self-organization — An anthology
Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton
These new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 16] 2000. xxii, 276 pp.
Questioning Consciousness: The interplay of imagery, cognition, and emotion in the human brain
Ralph D. Ellis
Questioning Consciousness brings together neuroscientific, psychological and phenomenological research, combining in a readable format recent developments in image research and neurology. It reassesses the mind-body relation and research on 'mental models', abstract concept formation, and… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 2] 1995. viii, 262 pp.
2012 16. Concluding observations: Comparisons, contrasts, and some important convergences Categorical versus Dimensional Models of Affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell, Zachar, Peter and Ralph D. Ellis (eds.), pp. 321–346 | Article
2012 Could moving ourselves be the link between emotion and consciousness? Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language, Foolen, Ad, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 57–80 | Article
The idea that emotion is an indispensable ingredient of consciousness in all modalities is not new. Panksepp and Damasio, for example, show that we can gradually eliminate cortical areas without eliminating “core consciousness,” whereas knocking out emotional areas renders all types of… read more
2009 Emotional authenticity as a central basis of moral psychology Emotions, Ethics, and Authenticity, Salmela, Mikko and Verena Mayer (eds.), pp. 179–194 | Article
If emotional inauthenticity in the form of confabulation with regard to moral issues is not a universal human condition, or at least is not always present in the same degree, then the dynamics of moral confabulation, as illustrated by the phenomenon of authoritarianism, should be able to teach us… read more
2008 The phenomenology of alexithymia as a clue to the intentionality of emotion Fact and Value in Emotion, Charland, Louis C. and Peter Zachar (eds.), pp. 181–192 | Article
2005 Introduction Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception, Ellis, Ralph D. and Natika Newton (eds.), pp. ix–xii | Miscellaneous
2002 Review of Bachmann (2000): Microgenetic Approach to the Conscious Mind Consciousness & Emotion 3:1, pp. 98–103 | Review
2001 The function of the cerebellum in cognition, affect and consciousness: Empirical support for the embodied mind Consciousness & Emotion 2:2, pp. 273–309 | Article
Editors’ note:þThese four interrelated discussions of the role of the cerebellum in coordinating emotional and higher cognitive functions developed out of a workshop presented by the four authors for the 2000 Conference of the Cognitive Science Society at the University of Pennsylvania. The four… read more
2000 Review of Panksepp (1998): Affective Neuroscience Consciousness & Emotion 1:2, pp. 313–318 | Review
2000 Integrating the Physiological and Phenomenological Dimensions of Affect and Motivation The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, affect and self-organization — An anthology, Ellis, Ralph D. and Natika Newton (eds.), pp. 3–26 | Chapter
2000 Editorial: The interdependence of consciousness and emotion Consciousness & Emotion 1:1, pp. 1–10 | Miscellaneous
1996 Ray Jackendoff's phenomenology of language as a refutation of the 'appendage' theory of consciousness On Language and Consciousness, Jackendoff, Ray and Wallace Chafe, pp. 125–137 | Discussion
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… read more
1995 The imagist approach to inferential thought patterns: The crucial role of rhythm pattern recognition Pragmatics & Cognition 3:1, pp. 75–109 | Article
Tmagists' hold that inferential thinking is built up from combinations of sensory and sensorimotor images in various patterns and modalities, and that the images are a more basic mental and neurophysiological operation than the logical thinking and conceptualization that are built up front them.… read more