?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Beyond+the+Fringe%3A+James%2C+Gurwitsch%2C+and+the+Conscious+Horizon&rft.creator=Brown%2C+Steven+Ravett&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=All+our+conscious+experiences%2C+linguistic+and+nonlinguistic%2C+are+bound+up+with+and+dependent+on+a+background+that+is+vague%2C+unexpressed%2C+and+sometimes+unconscious.+The+combination+of+William+James%C3%95s+concept+of+%22fringes%22+coupled+with+Aaron+Gurwitsch%C3%95s+analysis+of+the+field+of+consciousness+provides+a+general+structure+in+which+to+embed+phenomenal+descriptions%2C+enabling+fringe+phenomena+to+be+understood%2C+in+part%2C+relative+to+other+experiences.+I+will+argue%2C+drawing+on+examples+from+Drew+Leder%C3%95s+book%2C+The+Absent+Body%2C+that+specific+and+detailed+phenomena+can+and+should+be+interrelated+through+James%C3%95s+and+Gurwitsch%C3%95s+analyses.+I+am+proposing+first+that+phenomenological+descriptions+in+general+could+benefit+from+explicit+consideration+of+the+context+of+the+phenomena+within+the+totality+of+the+field+of+consciousness%2C+and+second%2C+that+establishing+that+context+requires+a+general+structural+model+of+that+field%2C+similar+to+that+provided+by+Gurwitsch.+&rft.publisher=The+Institute+of+Mind+and+Behavior&rft.contributor=Russ%2C+Raymond&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1000%2F1%2FJames%2526Fringes.html&rft.identifier=++Brown%2C+Steven+Ravett++(1999)+Beyond+the+Fringe%3A+James%2C+Gurwitsch%2C+and+the+Conscious+Horizon.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1000%2F